what is my catfish??

manolitaniero · Post by **manolitaniero** » 04 May 2006, 08:23

Hallo!!!! I'm a new user , someone can help me? I've a catfish but I don't know exacly what kind of catfish is .....
I sent the photo, please help me......it can be an Borelli????
[c:\manolita\foto\foto acquario\tyson1.jpg]
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clunkster · Post by **clunkster** » 04 May 2006, 15:58

hello manolitaniero sorry but i cant see your pictures

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 04 May 2006, 16:30

Yes, I think Manolita tried to show us pictures that live on his/her hard-disk - they need to be published on the web to work here, so Manolita: read up on how to put images on the web, and then give the link in your post [you can edit the original post if you want to change the links].

There's a post, I think at the top of this forum, that has links on how to post photos and how to use "Imageshack.com" to host your images.

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Mats

manolitaniero · Post by **manolitaniero** » 05 May 2006, 13:06

can you see it now ?
http://www.aquaportal.it/allegati/borelli_178.jpg
http://www.aquaportal.it/allegati/tyson4_899.jpg
http://www.aquaportal.it/allegati/tyson2_629.jpg
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manolitaniero · Post by **manolitaniero** » 05 May 2006, 13:07

it's about 20cm.......is too much for a borelli?

Post by **Silurus** » 05 May 2006, 13:21

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 05 May 2006, 13:27

I'm not familiar with a "borelli" catfish, and when I search for "borelli", I find only Apistogramma borelli, which your fish quite clearly isn't... Google on "catfish borelli -Apistogramma" didn't come up with anything better either. So you may want to explain what borelli is supposed to be...

To me, it looks like , which is one of the "Common pleco" species out there. It's almost certainly one of the "Pterogoplichthys/Liposarcus/Glyptoperichthys" group of Loricariidae.

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Mats

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 05 May 2006, 13:32

Doh - you mean Hypostomus borelli of course...

I still think it's a Liposarcus pardalis, however.

It would be fairly easy to differentiate them: Count the rays in the dorsal fin. Hypostomus have 7, Liposarcus (et.al) have 10 or more...

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Mats

manolitaniero · Post by **manolitaniero** » 05 May 2006, 13:32

this is the borelli one, but I that you're right ....
http://www.aquaportal.it/allegati/1_1__214.jpg

manolitaniero · Post by **manolitaniero** » 05 May 2006, 14:01

now that I know that it's a liposarcus, can move it in a pond?
I've a 250l in home but for it , it's too small I think, so I'd like to know if I can move it in a external pond

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 05 May 2006, 14:12

According to weather.com, the outdoors temperature in Padova gets a bit too low (freezing) during the winter months, so I don't think that will work. If you were living in Palermo, maybe it would work...

But certainly, a 250L tank is too small... Unfortunately, we get this question far too often, and it's always the same hard answer... You have three options:
1. Get a really big tank (1000L+)
2. Give the fish back to the shop or some willing "adopter" (where it probably ends up in a too small tank at some stage - assuming the shop is willing to take it back in the first place).
3. Keep the fish until it's too large for your tank and either dies due to too much dirt in the tank or you decide it's had enough and euthenaze the fish humanely.

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Mats