Is this a madtom??

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CorydoraLover
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Is this a madtom??

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Hello I have this fish a person gave me that he had caught out of the Missouri river.
The fish is in a ten gallon tank and I don't think has grown in the last month.
It was horribly hard get a photo of it. it moves around fast at night.

I feed it shrimp pellets (which it swallows whole.) and flake food.
It will come to the surface to eat flake food.

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Birger
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Re: Is this a madtom??

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Yes...quite possibly
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CorydoraLover
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Re: Is this a madtom??

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Thats what I thought but the colors just didn't seem right.
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Re: Is this a madtom??

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Lucky!

Nice looking fish. I've been putzing around this website, http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/catfish/ictaluridae/about.htm and it has some great descriptions of the different madtoms if you want to look. I think it looks a bit like a Noturus flavus but I'm no expert. It does seem to have the "light blotch on the nape, a cream-white spot at the rear of the dorsal fin base, and a cream-white blotch on the upper edge of the caudal fin" from your photo.
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