What's my catfish ?

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What's my catfish ?

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As above what are these ?
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I would like to see a better picture of the humeral process(the area behind the gills)for my own personal interest.

Regardless this is a fairly common hybrid...better colored than the ones here

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Is there any more info on these little lads where do they come from ?
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Have a read here http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... =8&t=28659

I would prepare for a fish that has the potential size of a but the personality/behaviour could be variable.

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Someone else after telling me these are synodontis valentiana how can you tell the difference between both ?
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is sometimes called that among many other things like jaguar syno etc. It is the most common hybrid.

Yours is as Birger says most likely

Purple words are links to datasheets. From there you can find all synodontis species datasheets and all their descriptions.

Do you see a difference in the photos? There is some variability.
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Someone else after telling me these are synodontis valentiana how can you tell the difference between both ?
Valentine syno is the common name for , so they are both the same thing. Check the names section in the cat-elog.
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Perhaps Racoll is right. Regardless, yours is #5.
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