I cant really tell

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I cant really tell

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I have to knnow if the fish attatched is an Katangae or an ocellifer
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I guess the pic did not come through,here goes another try
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From just a quick look the adipose fin is taller,longer.... the coloration looks ocellifer
I can just barely tell but if you look at the mandibular barbels it probably has longer filaments as opposed to fairly short on katangae
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Thank you he is one of my favorite synodontis and he was my first one,I kinda thought that he was an ocellifer but had to check.Thanks again for the help
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he is really cute and chubby! and the one in the background, is that a multipunctatus one?
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Yes that is a multipunctatus and he has five friends to play with.I have to say that the Multipunctatus are in behaviour very cool,and they have lived also I have no success with Petricola.As for the chubby one he is really mild compared to the shouendenti who is just Pavaroti like he is just a glutton.Once I saw that Ocellifer it was ano turning point kind of thing,I just cant get enough of them,and I keep buying the lottery tickets so that I might have the tank I want,but I might need to buy an acerage!
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cool! I just love the catfish!
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Thats great thanks for me it is hard to believe that some say they are ugly,but I guess each to his/her own.so what cats do you have any pics?
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What problems have you had with petricola?
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I dont know they just seem to die I have tried three seperate times.I am thinking of giving it one more shot
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I only have eupterus's so far. I have 5. Two big two medium one small.

I only have pics of them when they were wee. Under African Catfish thread Synodontis eupterus, I kno wnot too original. I need to take more but they are elusive.

Oh and I have 12 peppered cories.
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rfb - if you're goingto have another go with petricola(lucipinnis perhaps?) start a new thread highlighting your problems so we can give you speciifc advice - i have never has any problems with lucipinnis (the so-called dwarf petricola) or petricola & i am not the greatest fishkeeper by a long way!
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