Thanks for the help.

Thank you so much. I was clearly looking in all the wrong places for info about him. Even got the wrong continent!
I don't suppose there is a more common name for him in UK/USA is there?
Seems every other country in the world has an easy name for him except us!

I am desperately trying to identify this guy. He is approximately an inch and a half long with well defined black stripes on a bright silver body. Stripes are vertical on body and horizontal along tail. He was sold as unidentified when he was delivered to my local fish shop amongst some Spoonheaded ...

I have been trying to identify my catfish as well. Mine is the same as the drawing on the welcome page (the stripey one - not the brown one) and it looks like yours but with no spots on the fins or bogy at all and vertical stripe on the body but horizontal in the tail. It is silver and black and I ...