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.
 
thebiggerthebetter said:
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.
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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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