This is how the catfish was labelled along with the word 'rare'. I cannot find anything even closely matching this name. Any ideas?

It had stripey wavey lines. Didn't think to take a photo

Edit: It's ok I've found it now they've mispelt it..it's Schoutedeni.

Thank you again. I did mean that I would put all the Petri's in one tank on their own, not with the Malawi. I will do a bit more research first though.

Thanks so much for all that info. So if they eat their own eggs and fry how do they survive?

I have another 8 Petricola in my Malawi tank. They are a fair bit smaller than the 3 adults. If you were me would you put them all into the same tank? I have no idea of sexes of the 8 F1's.

I have 3 adult Petricola in a 12 gal on their own. Two are definately female and full of eggs. I've now read that Petri's are egg scatterers not cuckoo layers so how could I give them the best chance of breeding? Do they eat their own eggs or fry?

Thanks guys 100% sure the little ones I have are Petricola's and not hybrids specially as I bought them from a respected fish shop from a forum member.

Can anyone please tell me what if any are the obvious differences betweent the two? Thank you.