After looking at the photos - mine definately looks closer to panaque maccus - i'll try and get a photo of the mouth on later to confirm it though
Thanks
Terry

Yes - It was an impulse buy, i basically knew that if i left it in the shop it was going to die - I had called into the shop the day before and there was a betta in a bag lieing on the floor - when i called back the next day the betta was still in the bag on the floor. All the fish in the shop were ...

I bought this from a lfs, it was advertised as a chocolate zebra at £20 and it was covered with whitespot and very skinny. At the time I thought it was touch and go wether it was going to survive or not - I really felt sorry for it and thats why i bought it. The shop was closing down at the time so ...

Something i should have said earlier is that its only about 2 and 1/2 inches long. dont know if that helps or not???

I did clear the tank to get them out and photograph them - as far as its real color is concerned - im not sure .
It usually hides - i very rarely see it unless its swimming under logs, and then only briefly

Thanks guys i'll try and get a photo of its mouth tomorrow

sorry about the photos guys, im hopeing that theyre good enough to id with though
What do you think - ive checked photos and the choc zebra plecs look different to me ! Any Idea what this is ?
Thanks

actually they are more of a brown/black stripe with a slightly off white color

Hi guys i bought 3 of these small black and white catfish about six months ago - ive been keeping them in a neutral ph tank with gravel substrate and lots of wood and plants but i haveno idea what they are - when i bought them the guy said they were Leopard Frog plecs but obviously they arent - Any ...

Thanks Birger.
Either way I love these wee fish . they seem to be completely fearless and always active!

Thanks Birger- The article was great! but it still left me wondering about the juveniles i have on my other post- the photos are a bit clearer on that- these arent the offspring of this adult pair (unfortunately

Hi - so does that mean that they are petricola?

Thanks for the info mat- I do have another pair of synos in the same tank (apart from the hybrids and the syno lucipinnis). I bought them around 6 months ago from a breeder as a breeding pair of syno petricola, when i bought the breeding pair they were in a tank of their own with a lot of syno ...

Thanks Birger- after hovering over the decorus pic i can see straight away that they look very different. Would there be a danger of these guys breeding with some petricola i have in the same tank?

Hi again, :d thanks so much for the advice ive been given previously Im nearly sure that these are real petricolas not hybrids but im still a bit inexperienced and id like to check. Either way these are up at the top of my favorites (with my chocolate zebras being my other) lol im going to check in ...

Hi guys,
I have a few species of african catfish that id like to check their ID,
This first one i bought 3 of as Syno Decorus
What Think you???

Tis the season !

Have you been feeding him mince pies??

and Matsp
Thanks bud!

excellent - the convict tank it is then !
Victor, Richard,Birger, Naturalart and Mik - Thanks guys

ok i do have another tank - i might be able to put her in to avoid the fights - i think ! i have a 4 foot tank that im raiseing some baby convicts in - the biggest is around 1 1/2 inch and the smallest around 1/2 inch, this is my first time raising convicts - and ive read that they can be a bit ...

Guys this is great - thanks! Im not going to put her in with the cichlids as i dont want her to get hurt . One of our other tanks is a community tank with a mixture of gourami's some young red severums and a parrot that is fairly big- around 5-6" but not aggressive on the bottom we have some ...

cichlids-
all of them are not juvenile but between 2 to 4 inches
around 20 cichlids - yellow labs - female auratus peacock cichlids,some synodontis- i'll ad a pic onto this of it

she's about 6 inches long (15cm)
and she does look pretty fat - although im not sure if its fat or eggs -or something else ?
What do you think ?

:d I bought a 360lt tank last week - and with it i got given this catfish and i have no idea what it is - I think its a "she" she's approx 6 inchs long - looks very fat-or is she full of eggs? i was planning on putting her into a cichlid aquarium but...... dont want to hurt the fish if she's not ...