Shovel nose ID
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It's a hybrid, Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum (mommy) x Leiarius marmoratus (daddy), supposedly.
They are made for food and are marketed in Brazil as pintado = corruscans = spotted shovelnose catfish, which is wrong, of course, but we failed to understand why they do it.
More here if interested: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/tsnxlei-i-think-could-it-be-p-corruscans.564171/
They are made for food and are marketed in Brazil as pintado = corruscans = spotted shovelnose catfish, which is wrong, of course, but we failed to understand why they do it.
More here if interested: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/tsnxlei-i-think-could-it-be-p-corruscans.564171/
"Normal" TSN is not a single fish but a genus consisting of either 4 or 8-9 species - the scientists cannot agree yet, but anyhow, there is 4-9 described genuine species.
Your fish is a man-made hybrid, produced in a Petri dish. A cross between one of the TSN species, likely fasciatum, and an achara catfish aka marbled pim catfish aka Leiarius marmoratus, a fish from the same family but a different genus.
Your fish is a man-made hybrid, produced in a Petri dish. A cross between one of the TSN species, likely fasciatum, and an achara catfish aka marbled pim catfish aka Leiarius marmoratus, a fish from the same family but a different genus.
I can't find any additional info on him, what is its expected size. I know typical TSN get big i want to know if the hybrid will get the same size because if they don't I'm worried my RTC will eat him
I'd say 1' in 6-10 months; 2' in 2 years, usually no more than 2.5' even over a long time.