what am I?

L number Banana · Post by **L number Banana** » 01 Mar 2010, 12:25

Congrats RickE

Here's our updated Fish list:
Previously Listed Catfish

RickE · Post by **RickE** » 01 Mar 2010, 12:34

Thanks Tana. Does that mean I have to set the next one? Let me think...

L number Banana · Post by **L number Banana** » 01 Mar 2010, 12:43

Thanks Tana. Does that mean I have to set the next one? Let me think...

Yup, no rules except that it's a catfish. We've had haiku and cryptograms and everything in between. Easy way to see if your target fish has been done is to use the edit->find feature on the Listed Fish page.

Welcome to the game

grokefish · Post by **grokefish** » 06 Apr 2010, 20:01

Ok bored of waiting for RickE to set the next catfish so as i am the master controller I am using my mighty powers to hijack and set the next catfish.
Here goes:-

I could be mistaken for a giant colored biscuit (cookie) mountain.

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 06 Apr 2010, 21:40

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Jools

grokefish · Post by **grokefish** » 06 Apr 2010, 21:44

It's good, but it's the wrong answer!

grokefish · Post by **grokefish** » 08 Apr 2010, 09:18

BUMP!

L number Banana · Post by **L number Banana** » 08 Apr 2010, 09:57

Welcome back, Grand Poobah!

How about the creamy ?

grokefish · Post by **grokefish** » 09 Apr 2010, 09:58

Hooooooorrrraaaayyyyy!

We have a winner!

Well done Bannana, your turn! Funny I just knew you were gonna get it.

I could be mistaken for a giant colored biscuit (cookie) mountain.

Oreos (Yummy yummy cookies) also Mountain

Colorus- link to color (American spelling)

L number Banana · Post by **L number Banana** » 09 Apr 2010, 22:45

Colorus- link to color (American spelling)

I use the Canadian spelling so the 'U' was right at home, just in the wrong spot. Colour, labour, neighbourhood, all brightly underlined by spellcheck

Clue 1. My name sake is always up and down but a lovely investment for most women. (And large black men with mohawks)

Clue 2. I'm common and commonly confused with others.

Clue 3. Lucius Veras and I share a common number - good for me but it wasn't so good for him.

What am I?

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 09 Apr 2010, 23:08

L number Banana · Post by **L number Banana** » 10 Apr 2010, 14:22

Hi Marc

Correct!

grokefish · Post by **grokefish** » 10 Apr 2010, 19:14

Marc how did you get that?
I can't co-relate the answer to the clues at all.

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 10 Apr 2010, 21:12

grokefish wrote:Marc how did you get that?
I can't co-relate the answer to the clues at all.

My guess was mainly based on clue 3: "Lucius Veras and I share a common number - good for me but it wasn't so good for him".
Lucius died in 169 - which wasn't good for him I reckon. No idea why it is good for the fish

"Number" guided me towards L-numbers.
"Common and commonly confused with others" indicated a P. maccus kind of fish imo; lots of debates & questions about this one. Many keepers too.
That's all really.

L number Banana · Post by **L number Banana** » 11 Apr 2010, 05:15

That pretty much sums it up plus it's a GOLD striped panaque and gold is an up and down stock that many women purchase as investments but wear as jewelry. The reference to large black men with a mohawk was Mr. T - anyone remember him? Draped in gold?

Marc,

No idea why it is good for the fish

I think that was just my interpretation of L numbers...give a fish an L number and automatically the price goes up.
Poof, more desirable!

grokefish · Post by **grokefish** » 11 Apr 2010, 16:58

Again, again!

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 12 Apr 2010, 21:36

Alright, an easy one:

I resemble a catfish that recently got a different genus name.
However, I'm from a different continent.
Lionel may have caught some in his younger days.

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 13 Apr 2010, 23:28

The fish I resemble is rather popular, but gets too big.
Both my look-a-like and myself may have something in common with the Gizeh Sfinx, especially when we're not careful...

grokefish · Post by **grokefish** » 14 Apr 2010, 11:20

Hmmmmm...

Richard B · Post by **Richard B** » 14 Apr 2010, 13:04

???? er maybe not.....

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 14 Apr 2010, 14:58

Both above entries are incorrect, although Richard leads by keener thinking.
Again, it's an easy one so don't try too hard.

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 14 Apr 2010, 15:57

The sphinx is missing a nose.. & I believe you have some who tend to smash their noses against the glass

Suckermouth · Post by **Suckermouth** » 14 Apr 2010, 16:28

Dang torbanite, I think you've got it. They look quite a bit like iridescent sharks, the too-large fish they resemble! ID sharks are also notorious for destroying their noses in small aquaria.

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 14 Apr 2010, 17:30

torbanite wrote:The sphinx is missing a nose.. & I believe you have some
Auchenipterus nigripinnis
who tend to smash their noses against the glass

See, dead easy.

On a side note: the sphinx used to have a nose, but it was (severely) damaged, which may also be the case with both fishes mentioned - as Suckermouth also remarks.
The link with Pangasianodon hypopthalmus is easily made wrt looks and thus correct.
Lionel = Messi, from Argentina.
I think that covers all clues.

Richard B · Post by **Richard B** » 14 Apr 2010, 18:40

Lionel = Messi, from Argentina.

Oooooo - tenuous...

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 14 Apr 2010, 19:27

Richard B wrote:
Lionel = Messi, from Argentina.
Oooooo - tenuous...

Hands up everyone who spent ages trying to think where Lionel Richie might have gone fishing for catfish as a child? (Holds up hand)

New fish in a bit..

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 14 Apr 2010, 21:28

OK..

i) I'm a big southern species.
ii) When I was a fry, both of my parents cared for me and, unusually, fry from other species as well.

who am I?

Richard B · Post by **Richard B** » 15 Apr 2010, 07:09

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 15 Apr 2010, 08:24

Richard B wrote:
Bagrus meridionalis

Yes!

It's big..
meridionalis means southern.
It shows biparental brood care
brood parasitism by other (cat)fish has been recorded

Richard B · Post by **Richard B** » 15 Apr 2010, 15:12

Ugh, i feel rusty... here goes

New fish..

If you (as a male child) said "Dad, what is this Callichthid?" & he replied, albeit you were wrong in the first place & his reply was wrong, it would identify the genus.

The species is not from North America but it sounds like it might be

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