Please ID my bacu catfish

[krichardson]

The second fish looks weird to say the least. Got more photos or a video? I'd almost agree with your hybrid guess but it's too easy and ambiguous. Gotta try to match it to genuine species first and exhaust all options before moving on to hybrids...


Which reminds me: have you purposefully not mentioned what happened with your Platydoras or some such "bacu", mis-offered as Lithodoras, or is it a simple oversight? We still don't know the ending of that story... and BTW how the fish is doing?

Well,it died after about a week so there really was no need in discussing it here any further.....and in the case of that fish the Lithodoras name was also used.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Hard to tell from photo, but not sure of any hybrid doras. Doesn’t look like any other I know other than pterodoras and don’t think it’s Rivasi. I may still guess granulosus. Will bow to Victor on this one.

I am thoroughly stumped by the body proportions, hence the request for more visuals. Neither am I aware of any intra-Doradidae hybrids, that is Doradid A x Doradid B.

 

[Out2fish]

How do i post a video here

 

[fishhead0103666]

How do i post a video here

Post it to YouTube and then link the YouTube video here.

 

[GiantFishKeeper101]

Looks like a shortbody Oxydoras niger, the plates, the belly patter, etc. Looks like it

 

[Fishman Dave]

Or maybe centrodoras brachiatus but agree that it looks too short in the body

 

[Out2fish]

Hi all here is the video, i named this bacu zombie bacu hahaha, but please help me ID my mysterious bacu

 

[fishhead0103666]

Try asking on planet catfish.com it’s a website dedicated to catfish and they have a section for things like this where someone wants to know what catfish they have.

 

[GiantFishKeeper101]

That's some weird fish, bet on a hybrid between P. granulosus & O. niger

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Agree with GFK on the weirdness.

There a definite resemblance to granulosus and definite deviation from one. If not another Pterodoras species, it could be just a mutant, deformed granulosus, or, as a hailmary, a hybrid.

Indeed an opinion from professional ichthyologists on Planet Catfish, such as Dr. Heok Hee Ng aka Silurus, would be utterly interesting to me to know.

Post it on PCF, or I can do it for you if you'd like.