Please help ID this Synodontis Catfish!!

[Chefken]

i have this fish for three five years.....It has something of a pattern left and I am thinking Hybrid. She is one of the largest I have seen....10-11" and quite heavy. Trying to get better pics.....TY!!!!

 

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[kno4te]

I’d say hybrid.

 

[Fishman Dave]

Are it’s bottom whiskers branched or unbranched, I cant tell from the photos?

 

[Chefken]

Are it’s bottom whiskers branched or unbranched, I cant tell from the photos?

they are branched.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

First time ever I see such a syno. And I used to collect them. FWIW.

Show us any and all of the earlier photos, please. If you don't have them, please, use google images and post what looks the closest when it was a fry, juvi, subadult. If you will.

 

[Chefken]

First time ever I see such a syno. And I used to collect them. FWIW.

Show us any and all of the earlier photos, please. If you don't have them, please, use google images and post what looks the closest when it was a fry, juvi, subadult. If you will.

This fish is an old soul.....It was 8" long when I got it 5 years ago and has always looked similar. i will try and get better pics. She used to be almost round in the belly but has broadened out a bit....probably weighs a pound and a half. I have never seen a bigger Syno.

 

[Chefken]

First time ever I see such a syno. And I used to collect them. FWIW.

Show us any and all of the earlier photos, please. If you don't have them, please, use google images and post what looks the closest when it was a fry, juvi, subadult. If you will.

here are a few more...one with flash

 

[Fishman Dave]

Nice fish.
Looks like a hybrid of something like greshoffi and equally as large, maybe obesis.

 

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