How many cats is enough?

[thebiggerthebetter]

Walking catfish seem to max out around 18"-20", agreed.

In the wild, Sperata aor and Sperata acicularis get to about the same max size of 4'-5'.

moe214 I paid google its dues but haven't found anything that'd fit the situation. Either the broadcasting company or the unmentionable...

 

[Fishman Dave]

One of the four (bought as) Pim Maculatus
Sat
taking a well earned rest on top of the stone perch he just fought for and lost part of his tail. When he was 3" he was spitting image of the photo on PC of maculatus but now at almost 8" his patterning looks more like pantaneiro.

 

[Rpul]

One of the four (bought as) Pim Maculatus View attachment 1393905View attachment 1393906
Sat
taking a well earned rest on top of the stone perch he just fought for and lost part of his tail. When he was 3" he was spitting image of the photo on PC of maculatus but now at almost 8" his patterning looks more like pantaneiro.

This is the first time I’ve seen this sp. outstanding markings. I caught a similar few on my trip to Surinam last month.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

One of the four (bought as) Pim Maculatus. Sat taking a well earned rest on top of the stone perch he just fought for and lost part of his tail. When he was 3" he was spitting image of the photo on PC of maculatus but now at almost 8" his patterning looks more like pantaneiro.

I have precisely the same story about one of our blochii too. Also bought as maculatus when small and also morphing into something very close looking as yours with high def markings. It's in the thumbnail for the vid and I talk about it later on in the video:

 

[Fishman Dave]

So, quite a lot has changed in the past year, and my catfish keeping has really swung more to smaller species,
Ottocinclus * 5
Ordinary bristlenose plec * 3 pair
L144 blue eyed white bristlenose * 3 pair
L144 * 10 juvenile & 40 babies
Hoplo cats *5 brown
Albino hoplo cats * 1 pair
royal plec *1
Syno decorus x * 1
Pim pictus * 3
Banjo cats * 2
Whiptail cats * 2
Shadow cats * 2
Harlequin lancer * 1
Black lancer * 1
Corydoras * 5
Fossilis cat * 2
Syno granulosus x * 1
Syno nigrata * 2
Gibbiceps plec * 3
Hemibagrus nemurus (albino) * 1
Pseudomystus siamensis * 5
Notoglanidium macrastoma (dwarf giraffe) * 1
Hemibagrus wykii * 1
Hemibagrus filamentosum * 1
Hemibagrus variegatus * 1
pterodoras granulosus * 1
Syno Angelica * 1
Syno petricola * 5
Syno eupterus * 7
Clown plec * 4
Mystus leucophasis * 1
Lima shovelnose * 3
Liearius marmoratus * 1
Syno schall * 1
Pim blochii * 1
Pim maculatus * 4
Giraffe (occidentalis) * 2
Red tail cat * 1
Down to just 35 species.

 

[Iamfish]

So, quite a lot has changed in the past year, and my catfish keeping has really swung more to smaller species,
Ottocinclus * 5
Ordinary bristlenose plec * 3 pair
L144 blue eyed white bristlenose * 3 pair
L144 * 10 juvenile & 40 babies
Hoplo cats *5 brown
Albino hoplo cats * 1 pair
royal plec *1
Syno decorus x * 1
Pim pictus * 3
Banjo cats * 2
Whiptail cats * 2
Shadow cats * 2
Harlequin lancer * 1
Black lancer * 1
Corydoras * 5
Fossilis cat * 2
Syno granulosus x * 1
Syno nigrata * 2
Gibbiceps plec * 3
Hemibagrus nemurus (albino) * 1
Pseudomystus siamensis * 5
Notoglanidium macrastoma (dwarf giraffe) * 1
Hemibagrus wykii * 1
Hemibagrus filamentosum * 1
Hemibagrus variegatus * 1
pterodoras granulosus * 1
Syno Angelica * 1
Syno petricola * 5
Syno eupterus * 7
Clown plec * 4
Mystus leucophasis * 1
Lima shovelnose * 3
Liearius marmoratus * 1
Syno schall * 1
Pim blochii * 1
Pim maculatus * 4
Giraffe (occidentalis) * 2
Red tail cat * 1
Down to just 35 species.

 

[Fishman Dave]

Let me know what you want to see and I will try my best. However, here are a few!

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Lovely collection and photos. Thank you so very much for this.

A pedantic note - the decorus-looking syno is hands down beautiful but it is a hybrid, not a genuine species, not decorus. If you doubt,

-- true decorus must have stripes in the dorsal and especially caudal fins;
-- a long black extension on the dorsal fin (can be bitten off);
-- small branches on its maxillary barbels (only 1 or two syno species feature that); these barbels on yours look smooth, branchless.

PlanetCatfish.com - Synodontis decorus (Mochokidae) Cat-eLog

Images are copyright and may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder.

www.planetcatfish.com

 

[Fishman Dave]

Thanks Victor, totally agree, hence me calling it syno decorus x. I meant decorus cross or decorus hybrid, sorry, should have been clearer.
we get many “decorus” At really small sizes in LFS here and very few turn out to be the real thing.

 

[The Masked Shadow]

The title got me thinking you were one of the old man/woman with a ton of cats (mammals). But, I am in a fish forum lol. What about the Syno Granulosus?