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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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Jools

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...

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

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")

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

Jools

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

I rekon it's a bagrid of some sort

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

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

Jools

It's a Claroteidae species

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



This is a stretch but is my real guess.

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L number Banana wrote:

Chrysichthys ornatus

?

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

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.

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

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

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.

An Amblycipitidae?

Marc van Arc wrote:An Amblycipitidae?

Nope

Easy peasy:

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"

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.

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

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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!