What Catfish Should I get

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
Pictus cats are cool and stay active. Does better in a group. Raphael's are cool too but hide all the time. Pictus will max around 6" and Raphael will max around 9".
 
I would suggest reading and get what YOU like. What we like doesn't matter. You don't say what else will be in the tank. That matters.
 
thanks for the responses I went to lfs to see what they had and they had this cute little guy. I forget what he is called could anyone tell me?IMG_0430.JPG
 
For OP's intents and purposes it is likely immaterial but...

Here is how to distinguish close-looking multipunctatus and grandiops. Also, my understanding is grandiops is by far and large more prevalent in the hobby, like 100 to 1 (?).

PCF: http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=710
General Remarks S. grandiops and S. multipunctatus are most reliably separated by pectoral-fin ray counts with S. grandiops having 1 pectoral fin spine with 7 soft rays and S. mutipunctatus having a count of 1, 8 . The soft pectoral-fin elements (i.e. the rays) are almost always branched (the only exception being the last one or two rays, which are sometimes unbranched) a ray is counted as one at its base before it branches out. Also keep in mind the larger adult size of S. multipunctatus.
 
For OP's intents and purposes it is likely immaterial but...

Here is how to distinguish close-looking multipunctatus and grandiops. Also, my understanding is grandiops is by far and large more prevalent in the hobby, like 100 to 1 (?).

PCF: http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=710
General Remarks S. grandiops and S. multipunctatus are most reliably separated by pectoral-fin ray counts with S. grandiops having 1 pectoral fin spine with 7 soft rays and S. mutipunctatus having a count of 1, 8 . The soft pectoral-fin elements (i.e. the rays) are almost always branched (the only exception being the last one or two rays, which are sometimes unbranched) a ray is counted as one at its base before it branches out. Also keep in mind the larger adult size of S. multipunctatus.

So its a similar situation to Leiarius marmoratus and Perrunichthys perruno?
 
As a phenomenon, that is speaking qualitatively, I think yes.

Quantitatively, the ratio of marmoratus to perruno asymptotically approaches infinity (division by zero) as opposed to a 100:1 :)
 
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