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YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 22 Feb 2010, 10:31

Carp37 wrote:I'm struggling to have any idea of a non-mochokid that Richard would write about...

Dave Rinaldo wrote:
Synodontis grandiops

Nope! Carp37 is right.

Jools

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 22 Feb 2010, 11:21

Carp37 wrote:non-mochokid

I think the coffee Jools was/is drinking would be "Mocha" - so a Mochokidae it would be.

Now, that reduces it down to 158 species in the Cat-eLog. If we make the assumption that it's a Synodontis, we can reduce it to 119 species - there's probably a bunch more we can reduce it by, simply knowing Richard - but I have no good idea what he's writing about, so I can't limit it MUCH.

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Mats

Carp37 · Post by **Carp37** » 22 Feb 2010, 11:33

Jools wrote:not something that belongs to a family that initially sounds a bit like the coffee I am drinking.

to me Jools is saying it's NOT a mochokid.

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 22 Feb 2010, 11:48

Carp37 wrote:
Jools wrote:not something that belongs to a family that initially sounds a bit like the coffee I am drinking.
to me Jools is saying it's NOT a mochokid.

Ah, doh! Pay attention when reading... ;)

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Mats

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 22 Feb 2010, 11:53

Jools wrote:
Carp37 wrote:
Imparfinis pseudonemacheir
???

I'm struggling to have any idea of a non-mochokid that Richard would write about...
Why would Richard write about that species, wrong continent!

Jools

Well, it's not inconceivable, as there are only TWO actual keepers of these - I have the fish that Martin originally bought, and Richard is the other keeper. I'm sure there are others out in the world that has some as they had a whole bunch of them at MA Farnham and a few other MA branches some time ago. They must have gone somewhere, but the keepers are obviously not registering with Planet Catfish.

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Mats

Carp37 · Post by **Carp37** » 22 Feb 2010, 11:57

I think Jools has ruled out SA fish on this- so I'm assuming that it's an African fish we're looking for, but the only one that's left that Richard's got on his "My Cats" list that hasn't already been a CotM is Lophiobagrus cyclurus, which I can't get to fit the clue.

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 22 Feb 2010, 12:31

Who said it was on Richard's my cat list?

Jools

Carp37 · Post by **Carp37** » 22 Feb 2010, 13:09

Jools wrote:Who said it was on Richard's my cat list?

noone did, but I can't think of another way to guess otherwise! I'd thought that, to do a CotM article, it should be a species someone has kept, preferably reasonably successfully... Plus I've gone through all the African families I can think of and nothing's leapt out at me...

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 22 Feb 2010, 13:11

Yes, but HAVING kept a fish doesn't mean it's necessarily on the My Cats - and the experience may still count...

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Mats

Carp37 · Post by **Carp37** » 22 Feb 2010, 13:13

MatsP wrote:Yes, but HAVING kept a fish doesn't mean it's necessarily on the My Cats - and the experience may still count...

true- I've got a few from the distant past (1980s) I never added due to not being sure of dates, but anything recent would be there even if I killed them off (under "kept" rather than "keeping")

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 22 Feb 2010, 13:24

To find the big clue, you will have to head back to my original post!

Jools

RickE · Post by **RickE** » 22 Feb 2010, 13:45

Corydoras narcissus? Just based purely on the 'conceited' thing...

grokefish · Post by **grokefish** » 22 Feb 2010, 17:40

I rekon it's a bagrid of some sort

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 22 Feb 2010, 20:12

grokefish wrote:I rekon it's a bagrid of some sort

It would have been considered a bagrid some years back...

Jools

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 22 Feb 2010, 21:48

It's a Claroteidae species

Post by **Birger** » 23 Feb 2010, 01:14

Oh, no sorry that is his number one wish fish!

This is a stretch but is my real guess.

L number Banana · Post by **L number Banana** » 23 Feb 2010, 02:48

?

Post by **Birger** » 23 Feb 2010, 03:23

L number Banana wrote:
Chrysichthys ornatus
?

Can't be, that is already Nov.07 COTM

L number Banana · Post by **L number Banana** » 23 Feb 2010, 04:04

Birger:
L number Banana wrote:Chrysichthys ornatus?

Can't be, that is already Nov.07 COTM

Hmm, you're right, that would be too soon.

Back to the drawing board.

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 23 Feb 2010, 07:38

Birger wrote:This is a stretch but
Clarotes laticeps
is my real guess.

Yes! It's conceited in the sense its got a big (broad) head. Also I said:

Jools wrote:To find the big clue, you will have to head back to my original post!

As you were determined to find a fish in Richard's my cats list, I then dropped the clue about the NOT mocha - catfish to try and help.

Well done Birger, next?

Jools

Richard B · Post by **Richard B** » 26 Feb 2010, 11:09

Carp37 wrote:
Imparfinis pseudonemacheir
???

I'm struggling to have any idea of a non-mochokid that Richard would write about...

I've nearly completed that one but not the one in question this time

Post by **Birger** » 27 Feb 2010, 16:26

It was the ...was once a bagrid, that got me on the right track.

Sorry computer was down and I hope this is not on the list already.

Well...here goes, some might think I am a small worm feeling my way through the dark.

This is a little strange but like those with TV's I have to go through the channels.

I have similar South American friends that dislike swimming in water.

Well, that is it for now.

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 27 Feb 2010, 20:06

An Amblycipitidae?

Post by **Birger** » 27 Feb 2010, 20:30

Marc van Arc wrote:An Amblycipitidae?

Nope

RickE · Post by **RickE** » 27 Feb 2010, 22:38

Easy peasy:

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 27 Feb 2010, 23:05

Shouldn't be the one, for that's the fish in the clue below.

Birger wrote:I have similar South American friends that dislike swimming in water.

Besides, this fish has already been "done"

Post by **Birger** » 27 Feb 2010, 23:13

Marc van Arc wrote:Shouldn't be the one, for that's the fish in the clue below.

Birger wrote:I have similar South American friends that dislike swimming in water.
Besides, this fish has already been "done"

Quite right, the Phreatobius is the friend from South America.

RickE · Post by **RickE** » 28 Feb 2010, 08:42

That's what I get for not reading the 'question' properly. I was just the same at school!

RickE · Post by **RickE** » 28 Feb 2010, 08:55

?

Post by **Birger** » 28 Feb 2010, 12:56

The little subterranean Clariidae that is smallest in its family(currently in the Cat-eLog) and is found in wells in India.

Good job RickE!

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