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- 24 Mar 2024, 18:48
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Synodontis Tourei
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3596
Re: Synodontis Tourei
Isn't this one a ?
- 22 Jan 2024, 17:07
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Lake Tanganyikan Synodontis ID
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2385
Re: Lake Tanganyikan Synodontis ID
Yes the darker specimens are as well grandiops/multipunctatus, they just seem to be a bit darker. I've seen some equally dark specimens of grandiops before so it is definitely just variation between specimens.
- 22 Jan 2024, 16:57
- Forum: All Resolved Issues
- Topic: Synodontis soloni
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2916
Synodontis soloni
Going through the Cat-eLog I noticed something weird with . The ventral view photo seems to show a picture that of a Parauchenoglanis sp. rather than a Synodontis soloni.
- 22 Jan 2024, 16:14
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Lake Tanganyikan Synodontis ID
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2385
Re: Lake Tanganyikan Synodontis ID
All the synos in your first post are either multipunctatus or grandiops, best way to tell them apart is to count the fin rays as you already know. The fish pictured in your second post looks to me like a hybrid, because of its large eye (too large to be a lucipinnis) and white pectoral and dorsal ...
- 28 Jan 2023, 20:33
- Forum: African Catfishes
- Topic: Synodontis granulosus breeding?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5560
Re: Synodontis granulosus breeding?
That does look like breeding, but those don't look like S. granulosus. These have white on the outer edges of their tails and black barbles.
- 23 Oct 2022, 20:25
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: ID of twenty Synodontis
- Replies: 3
- Views: 981
Re: ID of twenty Synodontis
All 20 of them are hybrids, between which species, I can’t tell for sure.
- 24 Apr 2022, 20:27
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Help identify my catfish
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1551
Re: Help identify my catfish
As Viktor already said it is a hybrid. And it is a hybrid between Synodontis eupterus and S. multipunctatus.
- 17 Apr 2022, 11:44
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Help identifying please!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2214
Re: Help identifying please!
The yellowish dorsal and pectoral fin spines makes me think that this is Synodontis obesus.
- 27 Mar 2022, 15:00
- Forum: African Catfishes
- Topic: Synodontis granulosus: tank information
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6477
Re: Synodontis granulosus: tank information
Since noone else has given you an answer, I'll try to answer your questions to my best knowledge. The recommended 500l is good for one fish but in your case when you want to breed these a bigger tank would be more suitable for multible inviduals as granulosus is know to be rather aggressive. From ...
- 29 Dec 2021, 18:45
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Syn?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2911
Re: Syn?
That is S. notatus.
- 28 Oct 2021, 10:01
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: L333?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3663
Re: L333?
I am not a pleco expert but this isn't a Hypancistrus sp. and it looks more like Peckoltia compta to me.
- 16 Sep 2021, 10:51
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Help Identify my Cat Fish
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6103
Re: Help Identify my Cat Fish
This is also a S. ocellifer, and this is what the fish in the first post should look like if it had its missing fins.
- 29 Aug 2021, 20:12
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Help Identify my Cat Fish
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6103
Re: Help Identify my Cat Fish
That is a Synodontis ocellifer. Your fish also seems to be missing both of its pectoral fins and its dorsal fin.
- 20 Aug 2021, 19:33
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 19955
Re: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!
I once had a chance to get a group of green laser corys but I turned the offer down... I am deeply regretting that decision now since those fish look stunning!
- 20 Aug 2021, 19:30
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Lifetime of your fish
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4153
Re: Lifetime of your fish
I just received, maybe a week ago, a Synodontis flavitaeniatus that is supposedly in his twenties and honestly he does look like it as well. I also have some other synos getting close to being in their twenties. But the oldest fish I have ever heard of was a 37 year old S. decorus. Someone in a ...
- 03 Aug 2021, 12:20
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
- Topic: Paleatus swimming weirdly, IBS issue ?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4042
Re: Paleatus swimming weirdly, IBS issue ?
As far as I am aware Corydoras do have a swim bladder. And the deformation of the spine is caused either by a mutation or by an injury that has healed over time but has then left a kink on the spine.
- 02 Aug 2021, 15:46
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
- Topic: Paleatus swimming weirdly, IBS issue ?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4042
Re: Paleatus swimming weirdly, IBS issue ?
Seems like it has something wrong with its swim bladder, also if I am seeing correctly looks like the fish in question also has a deformation on its spine, I don't know if that adds onto its swim bladder issue.
Sadly I don't think there is much to be done in this situation.
Sadly I don't think there is much to be done in this situation.
- 16 Jul 2021, 19:47
- Forum: Travellers note book
- Topic: Fishes near Iquitos
- Replies: 69
- Views: 69941
Re: Fishes near Iquitos
I think you are right with that Ambylodoras being A. nauticus. Other known specie from Iquitos is A. monitor but I think they have less markings than nauticus.
- 27 Jun 2021, 17:34
- Forum: African Catfishes
- Topic: WC Synodontis sp. "Kenya"?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16829
Re: WC Synodontis sp. "Kenya"?
Had to do an other reply to post the pics of the Synodontis cf. zanzibaricus! Also I noticed that S. ruandae only has drawings as pictures on the site so if my pictures are good enough you guys can use them.
- 27 Jun 2021, 17:28
- Forum: African Catfishes
- Topic: WC Synodontis sp. "Kenya"?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16829
Re: WC Synodontis sp. "Kenya"?
The fish sold as Synodontis afrofischeri were indeed genuine, but the fish being sold as S. victoriae proved to be a S. ruandae or at least the one specimen I got. Sadly I lost that fish few days ago because of a local heatwave, I'll attach some pictures of him here. The sp. "Kenya" seems to be ...
- 04 Jun 2021, 19:28
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: ID of this fish??
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3033
Re: ID of this fish??
I'd say this is , but as Silurus said underwater pictures would be helpful to make the ID 100% accurate.
(Mod edit. Fixed typo in name)
(Mod edit. Fixed typo in name)
- 14 Mar 2021, 17:41
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Synodontis schall look alike
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3446
Re: Synodontis schall look alike
Here are some more pictures I've got of him over the years. Although these pics are not the best for many reasons (mostly because they are taken with flash so they don't show the true colour of the fish) you can see some details like the fine spots on the upper half of his body and some of the ...
- 13 Mar 2021, 16:33
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Synodontis schall look alike
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3446
Synodontis schall look alike
I got this guy about 4 years ago in a Nigerian import with a name Synodontis sp. "Nigeria". The problem is that I don't know whether the fish was actually caught in Nigeria and thus given the name sp. Nigeria or was it caught elsewhere and just imported from Nigeria. I don't remember all the fish ...
- 12 Mar 2021, 21:14
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: What species is this
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3720
Re: What species is this
Yeah thats a blochii.
- 12 Mar 2021, 11:46
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: What species is this
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3720
Re: What species is this
Looks like a from that angle.
- 05 Mar 2021, 19:52
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
- Topic: My Corydoras pictures
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8603
Re: My Corydoras pictures
I'd say that is a B. splendens, pictured fish has a correct number of dorsal fin rays (12) to be a splendens. I don't know any other species that would have that colour and that many dorsal fin rays.
- 04 Mar 2021, 16:55
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: ID this catfish - Trichomycterus ??
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7478
Re: ID this catfish - Trichomycterus ??
I'm by no means an expert with these catfish so take my words with a grain of salt. With all the info provided my guess would be Trichomycterus spilosoma , as this species exhibits the same kind of fine spotting on the body and fins. Also on the dorsal and caudal fin you can see the colour turning ...
- 28 Feb 2021, 20:30
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Brown Synodontis
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4336
Re: Brown Synodontis
Yeah I have to agree with you Viktor, the pattern is little off on the fins. This is partly why I was originally suspecting that she is S. rebeli because in its description in Seegers' The Catfishes of Africa it says "...with numerous irregularly distributed, roundish black spots of around pupil to ...
- 28 Feb 2021, 16:48
- Forum: African Catfishes
- Topic: WC Synodontis sp. "Kenya"?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16829
Re: WC Synodontis sp. "Kenya"?
I stumbled across this thread few months ago and immediately realised wich wholesaler and fish was in question. I had ordered both Synodontis afrofischeri and victoriae from them but didn't dare to oder the sp. kenya because I wasn't sure if any of those fish were genuine. Both of the fish I odered ...
- 28 Feb 2021, 13:57
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
- Topic: My Corydoras pictures
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8603
Re: My Corydoras pictures
Absolutely amazing pics! Makes me want to keep Corydoras again... wish I had more room...