Can anyone ID this guy for me??

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The more pics you post, the more it looks like a bullhead to me. Too stubby/stocky. Channels usually are notably more slender. So, for me too, this one remains an enigma wrapped in a riddle.
 
thebiggerthebetter said:
The more pics you post, the more it looks like a bullhead to me. Too stubby/stocky. Channels usually are notably more slender. So, for me too, this one remains an enigma wrapped in a riddle.
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After looking at many many pics over the past few days and reading what I can could... well, I'm starting to think its a Bullhead too. I looked at so many channel cats and mine does not look like most of them at all and the ones that were close were still not spot on... the tail does not look like it at all. It looks so similar to a white catfish.... Thank you and I will keep updates as it grows out a little!!
 
There is one member on here that has caught and kept white catfish that i know of if he wishes to chime in. :-)

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As stated, there is only one "bullhead" (=Ameiurus) with a forked tail and it is not even called a "bullhead", if this statement in ingestible :) So it's either a white catfish or a weird mutant channel. ATM, I don't think there is any other possibility. Let's give him a few months and see then.

Cliff, what can you say on hybrid bullheads... if you are so adamant that a white catfish is nearly impossible to get? Do they exist? Natural or manmade? Anyone ever kept one?
 
I hope its a white catfish... when I bought him I asked what it was and the guy (who has worked there forever) shrugged and said "bullhead?". I know the owner gets many odd fish all the time. I have bought a Purruno catfish from him and a Purruno/TSN cross too. As well as a TSN. Last year I sold him my 27-28" Granulosus catfish, which he still has!! Also, as I mentioned, he has Wallago catfish, Asian Red Tails and a few others... maybe he did get a White Catfish?? He has a Platinum SA Red Tail that looks cool as heck!! This catfish was so funny... he looked very odd swimming around with about 100 Rainbow fish!! He was not shy at all like he is in my tank!!
 
Are you talking about The Fish Place, Tonawanda, NY by any chance? I lived in Rochester, NY 2000-2011 so I know the LFSs a bit.
 
I've kept white cats in the past, bullheads and channel cats too. As others have pointed out, channel cats have black spots, bullheads don't have forked tails, it looks to me to be a white catfish, a female white catfish as it's head closely resembles that of a channel cat which is typical, as opposed to a male white cat that has a head much larger than the female, resembling that of a bullhead species, even with small specimens. Very obvious if you were to view a pair from above. The coloration seems right for white catfish as well...
 
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