1. Possibly obesus, I can't see nothing that doesn't fit for this species. I might have two pcs of obesus at my tank, I'll try to get some time to put some photos of them. 2. I wouldn't say robbianus, I have four of them at the moment(3wc, 1 russian bred) and shape of body and head should be more ro...

First could be dorsomaculata, can't say for sure.

Second one is caudalis.

Third one looks like a hybrid, what is the origin?

Definitely waterloti, I've had plenty of these and they have many kind of color pattern. Only little bit confusing is dorsal fin which look little bit too pointed and too high.

Birger wrote:Do the other S.polli that he has look more like this

Birger

Here is one shot I have, should be polli but i'm not an expert with tanganyika synos.

Silurus wrote:I hate to burst your bubble, but I think these are young

Synodontis schall

. There is a drawing of a 10 cm juvenile specimen in Boulenger's “Fishes of the Nile” that looks exactly like your fish.

I agree, looks exact the same.

Birger, what do you think about Synodontis polli "black"? I have been looking at these every day since you posted...just thinking (it hurts) How many of these do you have? What is its size? Is this picture how its color actually looks? I think I would like to see your fish have a few meal...

Jippo...have you looked at Microsynodontis sp(1) seems to be the most commonly imported Microsyno over the last few years. Birger You're probably right, I'm not so familiar with Microsynodontis. Birger, what do you think about Synodontis polli "black"? I got some photos of Synodontis fila...

I got some photos of my new cats, all are not so good but I will take better when I get some more time. Synodontis cf. polli(black), looks like this is not polli at all??? http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e32/jippo76/th_19112010102.jpg http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e32/jippo76/th_19112010086.jp...

Jippo...what do you think the second syno, the one under the albino is?? I have no idea, could be hybrid too. Looks little bit like nigromaculata but tale is not correct. And Jippo travelled a couple of thousand kilometers (at least 1250 miles), and google maps points out * This route includes a fe...

I must be a little bit crazy because I made a trip to Germany for fishes, again. Now it was four days and 3000km and of course lots of interested fishes, mostly catfishes. I visit at Deister Aquaristik at Hannover and OF-Aquaristik at Frankfurt. Deister Aquaristik was new for me and I can highly rec...

Channalabes sp.(1) at Cat-eLog have imported from Congo.

I would say greshoffi too.

I agree with P.ngamensis. You have done a great work to solve this species .

If they are tank bred it has been done with hormones. But the owner is very much against hybrids so he breed only genuine species. I've got a question for you regarding what you said here. What do you mean by the first sentence? When you say "they", do you mean the S. flavitaenata in the ...

If they are tank bred it has been done with hormones. But the owner is very much against hybrids so he breed only genuine species.

Mine has been eating quite much everything. I have mixed several foods together like Astra Stör Mini Pellets, OSI's Shrimp Pellets, TetraBits Discus food, New Life Spectrum Sinking Pellets, different kind of algae pellets and about once a week I give them fresh lettuce and zucchini. At the beginning...

MatsP wrote:Jippo sent me a link to his Picasa album. The shop, I think, is Aquarium Dietzenbach, and it's a wholesaler (grosshandel in German) if I understand correctly.

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That's the place. The owner of that wholesaler has bred more synos than nobody else.

Being aware that Dr. Tom Geerinickx has done a systematic revision of the genus I will seek out a copy of the paper which hopefully will provide at least drawings of the various species among the expected measurements, verbal descriptions and preserved specimen photo's to help further identify thes...

I have seen tank full of flavitaeniata at Germany. I am not sure but as I remember they have bred this species several years.

I did find out that the a. macrostoma need to be kept alone as they will fight and nip fins of their conspecifics. I have kept several A. macrostoma and Parauchenoglanis sp. at the same tank(720l) without any trouble. In fact many times there was 2-3 species at same pipe. I still have few macrostom...

Nice catch!

Can you get mouth shot of Euchilichthys?

I have two Euchilichthys guentheri and biggest one is 17cm(TL) now and growing fast. Its head has turned more granulate so I assume it is a male.

I have three of these, one male and two females and I have been calling them Chrysichthys cf. nigrodigitatus. Females are little bit over 30cm(TL) and male is about 20cm(TL) There is many photos of this same species that are labeled as C. furcatus but as far as I know it is synonym for nigrodigitatus.

The spotted one is Parauchenoglanis sp. Look at their eyes, genus Anaspidoglanis the eye is without free border and it is covered by transparent skin, with Parauchenoglanis this is opposite. At the moment there are four species from genus Parauchenoglanis that are found from Congo area. These are P....

There are hybrids mixed in some pages...as stated above.Birger I agree. I can see a huge difference with drawings of bastiani? Only pic number 3 is 100% correct. Other three drawings looks something else. Or are they drawings of eburneensis? http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/image.php?image_id=5...

you DO know that usually in the creation of hybrids the parental fish die because they don't survive the injected hormones for very long nor the squeezing out of eggs and roe? A long time ago, there was a speaker at the CAGB convention on this subject. This was before I attended these things. It st...

Looks quite much the same with my Chrysichthys cf. nigrodigitatus but i'm not 100% sure about identification of my fishes. You can see some photos of my Chrysichthys at my gallery.

I could go on, but would probably bore you with tails of yore! Loveing the banter, brings back memorys, thank's guys. Kipper. Just go on and tell us more, it's always nice to hear stories about cats. And you are an "old school" hobbyist so it's fascinating to hear how it has been back in ...

Richard B wrote:Those Syno decorus look like hybrids....

Same with ocellifer, too large membrane at outer barbels and ramification of inner barbels does not fit for ocellifer.

it's possible that one of the parents used to crate this hybrid is the haugi but look at the tail......the hybrid has the telltale black parts that point at a Tanganyikan species used in the creation. many hybrids are made by using Tanganyikan Syno's I'm very familiar with this. There is also many ...

I notest that Synodontis sp. hybrid(2) looks very similar with fish on this topic, Synodontis haugi?