Need identification on this Catfish

[wesbailey87]

Hey guys, I picked up this catfish at Petco about a week ago. It was donated and was told that it was aggressive towards the previous owner's Oscars, and was biting them. In my mind I was thinking "yeah right" so I paid the $5 for it and left. Immediately after I put him in my tank he started displaying dominance over my female red devil. The fought it out for a bit and now get along quite well. I'm not sure what type of catfish he is though. I've searched with no availe and the closest I can pin is a pictus cat. Any help please?!

 

[Oddball]

Looks like Synodontis multipunctatus but a bit darker than I usually see. S. multi has been hybridized to several other species and this may be one such hybrid.

 

[krichardson]

I was thinking S.eupterus.

 

[Oddball]

S. eupterus doesn't have the bifurcation of color that I see in the dorsal of this specimen.

 

[fishnatics]

Could it be a hybrid with s. Angelicus?

 

[krichardson]

S. eupterus doesn't have the bifurcation of color that I see in the dorsal of this specimen.

Since you've brought attention to the dorsal fin wgen they get to a certain size there are trailers on the eupterus dorsal if I remember correctly.This fish does not appear to have those so it just might be some type of multipunctatus hybrid.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

IMHO it is the most commonly sold hybrid syno called valentiana, jaguar, leopard, and other silly made up marketing names. I'm positive it is this guy: http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=602 Note there is notable base color and spot size variation but I've had more than a dozen of these and succeeded to raise a few to adulthood. They were all of this kind.

The colors and spots evolve heavily with age and size. IME, this guy will grow up to look like this http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=4123 - mine did anyways...