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so_its_just_called_an-upside_down_catfish_nice_one
and_feeding_it
the_reason_i_ask_about_feeding_is_it_does_not_come_out_for_food_at_feeding_time_so_is_there_something_extra_i_need
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I've trained a lot of my fish to eat out of a turkey baster. They get excited when they see it now (I got a clear plastic one so I can see how much food is in it.) My Frontosa and a lot of my cats will come directly up to the turkey baster to eat bloodworms right out of it. You could try this, just suck some bloodworms up in a turkey baster or pipett and spray them out by the cats head. It'll get food to him and hopefully he'll eat better.
Looks like a cuckoo catfish, synodontis multipunctatus. In the wild they are a shoaler but in the aquarium they are timid and nocturnal.
...like most synodontis.IT could be another light brown spotted synodontis, I can't see the fins that well. It could possibly be synodontis nigriventris (upside down catfish) but mine have a different shaped head and are much darker brown. Also my catfish have a pinkish white tint to their head sometimes. If the fins are transparent with spots in the middle, with leading rays tan coloured with chocolate bands; that is probably the upside down catfish. When my catfish are in open water they wave their pelvic fins to stay hovering in the same spot for a few seconds. If this guy is bigger than 4 inches it is most likely another species.
Does it swim upside down all the time when it is out at night? Surely it hasn't been under the rock forever... When you brought it home in a bag was it upside down or right side up?
Check_planetcatfish.com's_cat_e_log_here_
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=95
They_have_all_the_species_of_known_synodontis_catfish_there. Another species you could check is featherfin catfish, Synodontis eupterus
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=121
i think it is Synodontis nigriventris as its tail is covered with spots where the pic you have shown has black on its tail