Thanks. It is instructive. Obviously it is difficult to know the exact species. Should there be any benefit from the more precise identification if I could find out where it was caught in the Congo?

It is at least 10 years old and has not grown larger than the 30 cm.

Can someone help me identify this catfish? Length is about 30 cm. Here are some pictures of it.

Two females fights? Or could it be a spawning? which suggests my bichirs when he eats something in a cave.



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One of them looks like this now.

Updating growth pics. This guy is now about 10cm long. What do you think, does the fish still looks genuine?

Thank you all. I'm so glad that I have likely genuine Synodontis decorus. I will return later when they have grown a bit more with new pictures. So that I know for sure that they are genuine.

Size of these fish is about 6 cm. These indeed have branched upper whiskers.

I bought these fishes about a week ago. In appearance they look to me like real Synodontis decorus. But these are likely to be farmed from Czech, if the vendor could correctly tracing the origin of the fish. Do you think that the fishes can be a real decorus?