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First Quick look I would look up blue jumper cat, exallodontus aguanai
Don’t think the mouth looks like megolonema platycephalum which was another choice.
 
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pinirampus pirinampu

Pretty rare but I’ve seen a few imports of them recently. Good MD size catfish. That one looks like he could use a lot more food though!
 
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Kayden said:
pinirampus pirinampu

Pretty rare but I’ve seen a few imports of them recently. Good MD size catfish. That one looks like he could use a lot more food though!
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Both I’d possible, the jumping cat and the potential piriampus. Looking at the maxillary whiskers, the one starting to head towards the “flatter” stage, you may well have hit the nail
On the head.
I was fortunate to have a small specimen, its whiskers didn’t have the classic flatness untill around 6” in size. I guess only time will tell.
 
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Rpul said:
Both I’d possible, the jumping cat and the potential piriampus. Looking at the maxillary whiskers, the one starting to head towards the “flatter” stage, you may well have hit the nail
On the head.
I was fortunate to have a small specimen, its whiskers didn’t have the classic flatness untill around 6” in size. I guess only time will tell.
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Main difference I see is the finnage. One of the most attrative things about a flat whisker is the dorito shaped find. And this fish clearly has that in spades!
the exalodontus has similar finnage but a different placement of the rays. And has a full connection to the dorsal fin and tho body. While the fish in OP has the last quarter of the dorsal fin detected.

also has been quite a while since I’ve seen the jumping cats imported anywhere in the US. Seen a few flat whiskers floating around these past few months.
 
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I bought from a local lfs. I asked what it was no one knew. They said it came in with the pictus cats, as a contaminate.
I’ll fatten it up and do updates.
Thanks everyone for your help.
 
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CYBR said:
I bought from a local lfs. I asked what it was no one knew. They said it came in with the pictus cats, as a contaminate.
I’ll fatten it up and do updates.
Thanks everyone for your help.
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Lucky! Wish my LFS would get cool contaminants in. I’d probably end up paying 100 plus for one of these with those scam artists
 
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