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I recently purchased two catfish, sold under the label "asian bumblebee", but they were incidentally in a tank with lots of banjo cats and other catfish species.

Here is the best picture I have currently:



This looks more like the pictures I see of the SA bumblebee (the small one) here: http://www.planetcatfish.com/cotm/cotm. ... icle_id=91

Instead of the asian bumblebee P. siamensis here: http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/sp ... ies_id=708

Help ID'ing which I have would be much appreciated.

This is a south American microglanis - not sure of the species though

Thanks. Based on the above links as well as this one: http://www.scotcat.com/factsheets/micro ... eringi.htm, it seems this is the dwarf SA bumblebee, so I'm probably looking at max length ~3-3.5" (some sources say closer to 2"), and lifespan maybe 2-3 years from now as it is probbly 1.5-2" already so at least a year old. Sound about right?

I have had microglanis live for up to 5 years and up to 4"TL. I would guess this fish is about a year or so old. Definitely could/should be mature at that size if you have both sexes.

It looks like the one we know in the hobby as iheringi, although there is some debate about whether that is the correct name to use.