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

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

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.

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Jools

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

Welcome back, Grand Poobah!

How about the creamy ?

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)

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?

Hi Marc



Correct!

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

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.

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!

Again, again!

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.

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...

Hmmmmm...

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

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

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

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.

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.

Lionel = Messi, from Argentina.

Oooooo - tenuous...

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..

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 wrote:

Bagrus meridionalis

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

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