i picked up this catfish last week, was marked up as an Azul pim can someone please ID it for me
Jim
Jim
Pim Catfish ID
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I like your guess but other experts think it is Pimelodus albicans (see a thread here on the same fish/photos http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=35890).
I have one fish for sure that I still cannot decide whether it is a P. albicans or Brachyplatystoma vaillantii, as you suggest. (((here is the ID thread on him http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=30240&hilit=+vaillantii ))) The same experts could not be 100% sure either in my case. They grow to immensely different sizes - vaillantii is a monster at 4.5' max. So, time will tell. Mine has been in a pond for a year temporarily. I never see it except fleeting shadows/glimpses but soon, hopefully, he will move into a large tank and then I'll try to ID him again.
See this too: http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=34184&hilit=+vaillantii
I have one fish for sure that I still cannot decide whether it is a P. albicans or Brachyplatystoma vaillantii, as you suggest. (((here is the ID thread on him http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=30240&hilit=+vaillantii ))) The same experts could not be 100% sure either in my case. They grow to immensely different sizes - vaillantii is a monster at 4.5' max. So, time will tell. Mine has been in a pond for a year temporarily. I never see it except fleeting shadows/glimpses but soon, hopefully, he will move into a large tank and then I'll try to ID him again.
See this too: http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=34184&hilit=+vaillantii
Garniac's fish looks close: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?555200-a-monster-not-yet-(1-Viewing)