Live in waters north of Venezuela, measures 5 cm / 2 inch

[Adrian78]

Hello, I need help identifying this fish.
This fish lives in clear waters from north of Venezuela, is about five centimeters.

[Silurus]

It's a

Trichomycterus

of some kind. Not easy to identify to species, though.
Have you more pictures?

[Adrian78]

It's a

Trichomycterus

of some kind. Not easy to identify to species, though.
Have you more pictures?

Another picture of the same specimen.

[sidguppy]

I love it; my kind of catfish.

these are fun to keep, especially when you give them a sandy substrate instead of gravel

they hide in it and 'pop up' and zoom around like little racing cars when you put food in the tank.

[Richard B]

Ah, something else out-of-the-ordinary - nice find!

[Chrysichthys]

It's a shame this catfish family has such a bad reputation, but I suppose it's inevitable.

[Shane]

Of course all my papers are packed and on their way to Uganda.... The only species described from the Rio Tuy system is

Trichomycterus mondolfi

, which was described from a quebrada near Chacaito. Was it found on the south side of El Avila in the Caracas valley or on the coastal side towards the airport?
-Shane

[walshy317]

looks like a weather loach to me i see them all the time, they go in the gravel and move everthing around funny things to watch.

[Bas Pels]

looks like a weather loach to me i see them all the time, they go in the gravel and move everthing around funny things to watch.

I got to admit, there is some similarity between loaches and the fish above. But loaches come from Asia, Europe, perhaps Africa but not from Venezuela (perhaps a local LFS )