Spotted Shovelnose Catfish?

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Wiggles92

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I picked up this awesome catfish at a local pet store earlier today. It was sold as a spotted shovelnose catfish and is about 8" in length. From what I know of shovelnose catfish and the like, it's going to get fairly large, but I think I'm up to the challenge.

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My question is what species of catfish is this fish? If it helps for a positive ID, the catfish lacks tail streamers.
 
It looks like a normal tsn to me just minus the defining white strip
 
I'd say tsn also.
Nice oddball. I like!
If you ever want to sell, let me know.
 
i think it is one of the tiger red mixes that is strongly fixed tiger had one that was pretty close lookin i thought it was cool too
 
mqktandy;4690609; said:
It looks like a normal tsn to me just minus the defining white strip
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doubledragon;4691708; said:
I'd say tsn also.
Nice oddball. I like!
If you ever want to sell, let me know.
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brutonsbrew;4691731; said:
i think it is one of the tiger red mixes that is strongly fixed tiger had one that was pretty close lookin i thought it was cool too
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Thanks for the help all!
 
After looking over some pictures on Fishbase.org, I think I may have a positive ID on my shovelnose catfish; I think that it may be a Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum (barred sorubim; barred shovelnose) rather than a P. tigrinum (tiger sorubim; tiger shovelnose; TSN). Here's the link to the page on that species.

What do you all think?
 
20-30 tops. Just because it's pretty common and gets huge. On the other hand it does have a pretty cool pattern
 
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