The shop said it was an L048.

So after some asking about and some thought, we came up with the right answer..... yeah!

Thanks everybody for your help. Not as easy as I thought it would be.

:thumbsup: Thanks everybody. Having looked at the pictures and the descriptions I think I am a little closer....

The fish is brown with yellow spots and has slight vertical banding across the body. If you look close at the second picture you can see this.

It could be a L048 - it has the banding ...

Hi Jen. I'm new to cats so I cannot comment on your King, but what I can say is this:

Do catfishes change their colour intensity with their mood? My experience with community fish and African Rift valley fish is that they do almost continuously. :?:

So my guess here would be that it may well be ...

Bought this lovely fish. Wrote down the L number, lost the piece of paper. Shop shut for Christmas.....

Doh!

Any help would be great.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l113/kezza_bucket/DayOne1.jpg

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l113/kezza_bucket/OnPebble.jpg

Many thanks - and Merry ...

...because of the bad photos...

I was wondering if anybody could help ID this catfish. I got a few from my local (non specialist) fish shop. Sold as Butterfly catfish.

Sorry for the rubbish photos, but any tips of species or family would be great.

Many thanks in advance.

Kez

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