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A weird-looking pleco fish with ‘armour-plated’ scales has reached 25 years of age.

Photographer Josh Garman, 20, from London, was visiting the Aquashella Aquarium Festival in Chicago when he spotted the huge and strange creature.

The fish, a Panaque pleco, was deemed to be about 25 years-old, had strange opening whiskers and was almost as long as the forearm of its keeper Gino Di Nella, 28, from Bloomingdale, Illinois.

Typically, the pleco, which is part of the catfish family, can live for between 10 – 15 years in captivity.

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