I got this catfish from someone who was giving it away (along with a Synodontis nigrita), and now I figured I should actually get it ID'd so I know what to feed it. I have a couple of pictures I took that will hopefully help - sorry about the blurriness of the last two. If I need different photos ...

I took some new photos of the Ptery so you can tell me if it still looks skinny.

Thanks for the ID, Mats. Are you thinking it's skinny because of the last photo? If so, I will take another more recent one to see if it looks the same. I didn't think it looked skinny from the top view, but maybe I'm wrong.

Shane, I did just add some zucchini to the tank yesterday, and both the ...

I have a couple photos I took not long after I first got the little catfish. Hopefully I took the ones you need for an ID. He's really hard to get photos of straight on, because he's very fast. If there's something specific you need a photo of to help the ID, let me know and I'll see what I can do ...

Update:

I think everyone has worked out the hiding places. Bob has displaced the Hypo from the end of the log, and I think the Hypo has taken up residence in one of the alternative slate caves I set up. I will continue to keep an eye on it, but if any of you can tell me what to watch out for to ...

So are we now questioning whether the catfish in the attached thread is a Hypostomus plecostomus? Because that was me asking for an ID of the fish in question.

Birger:

There are quite a lot of other fish in the tank - rainbows, gouramis, tetras, a couple barbs and an angelfish - so there is food that doesn't get eaten by them that the plecos would get. I am giving them half a zucchini at minimum once a week, if not twice. If that is not enough, please let ...

The tank is a 46 gallon bow heavily planted with a huge log that reaches from one side to the other. One of the plecos (Hypostomus plecostomus) lives in one end of the log. The other two plecos, which I haven't ID'd yet, would usually hang out under/near the log. I created a cave with rocks and some ...

Hi everyone,

I hope you can help me. I picked up what I think is a 4-5" S. nigrita, and I'm wondering if anyone has heard of them being aggressive enough to kill off plecos? The pleco in question was about the same size and had been happily co-habitating with 2 other plecos, then I added the syno ...

I went through part of the Loricariidae list, I think this guy is part of the Hypostomus genus, but I'm not 100% sure. Any help would be appreciated. Apologies for the not completely clean glass/flash reflections.