Hi everyone, I was wondering what species of pimelodid I have here, I bought two individuals sold as "white line pimelodids" but am not certain as to the exact species. Are they blochii, albofasciatus or something else?

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bslindgren wrote:A beauty it is! Nice photo - should be in Cat-eLog!

Thanks, I appreciate that.

I was thinking globally but U.S. works fine.

Thanks, would you say these are the most abundant Chaetostoma on the market? I imagine they are.

I think its Chaetostoma sp. 1 but figured I would check here for verification. Thanks.

He is small, about 2" and I've had him for three years.

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Thanks for the quick response. I should have figured they were one of the more common species but with so many bushynoses out there figured it would be good to double check. Part of the reason for my curiosity is because despite all the reading I've done on how easy these guys are to breed mine just ...

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Any ideas? If you guys need anymore pictures let me know, thanks.

Yeah.
Mines just not quite so fat as the first picture, and the sna dwashes him out a bit, but it looks the same.
He occasionally will swim like a paroon too.
Im in the US BTW :mrgreen:

So, do you have photos of the fish you're willing for the site to use by any chance?

The fish in the second ...

I don't think I saw the brown bullhead or the tadpole madtom on that list, perhaps I missed them. If not I can do articles on those.

I have found this site to be quite useful for information on otocinclus. Should be able to answer many questions.
http://www.otocinclus.com/

If I recall correctly Coppersafe should be alright to use with catfish. I just re-read the label and it only warns against use with plants and inverts.

Are there any key factors why you think it is something else? Are you aware of any info as to where the fish came from, what it was sold as etc given the look of the fish it has that pim/mystus appearance but with 6 & eight barbels respectively it clearly isn't (unless there is a really small ...

I know some cross-family hybrids are possible but as I understand it they are very rare. I guess there is a cross between tiger shovelnoses (Pimelodidae) and ripsaws (Doradidae) as well.
Thanks for the help guys. I did not realize that such a hybrid was possible and cannot really imagine why anyone ...

A member at another forum I visit posted some pictures of a catfish he said was a hybrid between a paroon shark and redtail catfish. I don't buy it. These fish don't belong to the same family and the fish in the pictures don't look like either fish. With the permission of the owner I am posting the ...

Jools wrote:In response to a PM I got about this species,

Mystus leucophasis

does grow to at least around 12" and that is from seeing one that big in person.

Jools

I was told/read that one of the sexes stayed smaller, something like 7". I would not mind mine reaching 12" though.

Mine has since been moved to a 40g, the oscar started picking on it and the other catfish when they were in the 75g. I moved the two pim cats and the Asian U.D. into the 40g along with a pair of bushynoses. At first the U.D. would pick on the P. albofasciatus constantly. The pim had torn fins and ...

it's the other way around.
Different fish have the same common name.

Someone else will expound on this and answer your question better than I can.

how about barbus semifasculus
puntis schuberti
barbus schuberti
barbus sachsi
There may be several common names too;
gold barb
schuberti barb ...

Have you seen the March 2000 Catfish of the Month article by Shane Linder, on this site? Note the sentence about how they can 'wreak total havoc' in a community tank.

In my experience they're fine with similar-sized fish, or larger, but very quarrelsome amongst themselves.

Yes, I have read that ...

I have nine catfish species and love them all for various reasons. My brown bullhead is my favotite. He is very interactive with me, coming to the surface to feed and such, not something most people would expect from a catfish. While a lot of people would consider them ugly I love watching mine swim ...

Nice to see another Ictalurid keeper. I have a brown bullhead myself and some tadpole madtoms. I like your yellow bullhead, looks like a big guy (must be the goldfish). What do you plan on doing with the channel?

I just bought one of these fish, have been looking for one for some time now. I was wondering if anyone here had any experiance with them that they could share. I read over the Cat-elog profile and did a search on them but there isen't much on the web about them it seems.

Here are some pictures ...

Our channel Catfish all have deeply forked caudal fins.

Yeah, but the fork is much less pronounced when they get big. This applies to blues as well. And it is hard to tell much about the tail fork from this picture. I think that the shape of the anal fin is a better distinguishing characteristic ...

If this is the picture in question then I'm pretty certain it's a blue catfish Ictalurus furcatus.

Are you restricted in any way on what your choices are? Willing to buy online or travel? Does you LFS special order? The reason I ask is because there are tons of choices but very few places carry a great diversity of them. Most of what I have seen are commons, sailfins, rubberlips, bushynose etc ...

How often are you willing to clean the tank will answer the question. Personally I would not put pictus in a 29g, I find them to active and fast for the small footprint.

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2) A reasonable answer to your question would require that you state your location in your profile properly (as per forum rules).

I don't get it, why would he have to state his location (other then Michigan) if he wants to buy fish online? Most places ship all over the country.

To answer the ...

I don't know why fish stores sell 2 gallon tanks. 1 goldfish might survive if you took really good care of it, changing water out every day, with complete changes every week. But to sell you a pl*co besides is really ignorant. Our regular old pl*co is 8 1/4 inches and still growing. And we keep our ...

I can't believe our little pl*co would grow that big. I always thought that a fish would not outgrow the tank.

It's a common myth but a myth none-the-less. There is an element of truth, the fish do stay small but it's due to water quality and not tank size. Water quality quickly plummets in such ...

I have kept dwarf otocinclus before but don't have any at the moment. I find that once they have been acclimated they are actually rather hardy species. At first they are fragile, Racoll is right about that. That's more the fault of the LFS and shippers than anything else so if you have a bunch die ...