Info on a blue dolphin fish?

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smellsfishy

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I just bought a fish called a blue dolphin. I can't find any information on this fish online. The only thing I can think of is it has a different common name. If anyone can classify this fish and have any info on it, I would appriciate it.
+It is young at about 2 1/2 inches
+ Freshwater
+ Its white on the bottom and a bluish gray on top.
+Looks looks almost like a saltwater shark but with one dorsal fin, pointy doral fin
+keeps an open mouth and stays around the bottom of my tank.
+ It also has tiny eyes.
+ tons of energy

Thank you for any information
-Steve
 
i,ve seen this fish before but by another name i will find out fir u when i think of it
 
When I did a search under blue dolphin fish most of what showed up were pubs.
I did find this, Cyrtocara moorii "Hap moorii" (Blue Dolphin) Is that it? Cool fish.

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i say, judging by the photos on the oscarspot link... that the fish in his picture is a moorri, albeit a pale one....
 
cuban jey said:
heres pics

If it is a Cetopsis cat, it requires strong currents and heavy oxygenation. Can possibly be kept with heavily armored fish since it is common for this catfish to bite chunks out of any scaleless tankmates. It's a known corpse feeder and will tunnel into the abdominal cavities of larger animals and gorge itself from the inside out. In captivity, feed Cetopsis sparingly. In the wild it is an opportunistic feeder and will eat until it can't hold any more then, regurgitate it's meal in order to be able to continue feeding. These disgorges will quickly sour a tank and kill tankmates and the dolphin cat itself. This catfish is definitely one to put the odd in oddball catfish.
 
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I like the cob the moori get, I wonder if it is just during mating, the dolphin cat is very cool, Oddball, do you know where they are from? how big they get? where they can be bought?
 
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