hello there everyone!
i'd be really grateful if people could help. i need to know they are safe to keep in with my neolamprologus multifasciatus. also just to know what they are, where they are from, sizes etc etc!


To answer your questions: (assuming it's the same syno as mine)
I had these fish ...

It's exactly like my catfish!
We had a long discussion about my fish in a thread a while ago:

http://www.forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?t=612

Maybe it helps, or perhaps it gets more confusing now....
Other name mentioned in this thread was: S. Rebelli

mathieu

Fyi:

Just got an update from the petshop. They say this fish is definitly not from Lake Tanganyika, but it is caught somewhere in the area Zaire/Congo. And the importer didn't know the name, so (s)he gave it the name "multipunctatus zaire". Somehow I got the feeling the petshop knew this name was ...

Ok, I think I'll call my fish rebeli (it needs a name, right?) Its probably the best choice.
Thanks for all the help. When I get some new information from the petshop, I'll write it here.

Mathieu

Hi,

I went to the shop where I bought this fish. Unfortunately I couldn't talk to the right person. Is saw they have the 'real' multipunctatus now and the ones that I bought are now labelled as 'multipunctatus Zaire'. So I went back home and searched on the internet for this species. It seems it ...

You might be right about the njassae. I found this link:
http://www.aquariacentral.com/species/db.cgi?db=fresh&uid=default&ID=0618&picture_page_view=1

I guess this is the large spot njassae? This is indeed quiet close to mine fish.

The other pictures I found (e.g. on this website) of the njassae ...

I tried to picture the head, these are the best I could get.
Note that the spots on its head are a little smaller than on its body.

mathieu

I've been searching for pictures of syno's on the internet for a while now, and I think my fish is closet to the ocellifer. (Even the pictures of the ocellifer found on the internet differ from eachother.) I'm also starting to think this is a crossing between two species. I will go to the shop were ...

Hi Silurus/Jools,

Thanks for the help.
I was just about to say the same thing about the ocellifer. (Mine has large spots on the fins.) However, the shape of the body/head and color is about the same.
I don't think it's macrostigma. I couldn't find any picture of macrostoma on the internet, so I can ...

Hello,
I bought this catfish named as multipunctatus, however I'm almost sure that is false.
It looks like eupterus or courteti, but it looks a little bit different.
Anyone can recognize this fish?

Sorry, for the picture quality, it's a nasty little fella to capture.
Size appr. 10 cm (4 inch ...