are midwater catfish, my 25-strong group swim alongside my 13-strong mix of Phenacogrammus sp.1 and interruptus.

are much more easier to source, at least in the UK.

Here's the two best photos I've managed to get so far of MartinS' old Chaetostoma, that I believe is a C. joropo... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hv_7nkoWHDJdZDjv-q53ScMed5QBF4HhPR-TJrrSWt9KVvEFiBt5j3IKfEV9rDDg0WANCvGHZG-tFPRI2AMKOspMGSnjvIX1cOlgieK988wKTOb-YnMRyNqhwKRUn36N_bAisRHnTQ https://lh3...

Interesting that you say your S. schoutedeni is buddies with your S. decorus, my one pretty much instantly became pals with my ~31cm SL Auchenoglanis! The lack of colouring on the rear half of your specimen in the photo is very curious, not seen that before, a bit of a twist on the specimens that ar...

My Chaetostoma (believed to be 1x joropo, 2x L445, 1x formosae) all respond to Tetra Prima granules; Vitalis Catfish Pellets (2mm variety); JBL Novo Rift pellets.

Good luck getting them through quarantine in good health and recognising food!

@bekateen The specimens in that those recent photos look like my one that came from MartinS in 2012, which I believe is Chaetostoma joropo . The tell-tale signs for me of this species is densely packed, round black spots over a vast majority of their upper body, with a white patch that extends forwa...

Looks like my specimen that came from MartinS on here ~5.5 years ago (and still with me), which I now believe is Chaetostoma joropo.

Having just seen the video as well as the photo, I think a few things could be causing issues here... These catfish, just like my 25 Pareutropius mandvillei, do much better in sizeable groups of ~12+. It makes them far less nervous. It's a few years old now, but a video clip of my African midwater c...

A great looking specimen at that, in lovely condition!

Pretty sure they are young Pseudopimelodus bufonius or similar. Jools Just reading that profile, they almost sound like the South American equivalent of Chrysichthys ornatus. It still amazes me to this day that before pulling my adult (~21cm SL at time, now bigger) C. ornatus out of my larger Afric...

I'd go with Synodontis sp. hybrid(5), because the tail fin pattern looks incorrect for S. decorus.

I used to ask relatives to drop in and feed my fish daily while we were away for ~4 days and every time, perhaps by coincidence in some cases, I came back to dead and/or missing fish. For the last three years, I now give a generous last feed just before we leave for vacation and all fish have report...

I'll let others pass opinion on the ID, but from those photos and if they are recent, you could really do with isolating this catfish in quarantine and fattening it up, it has a sunken belly.

My 6-foot tank contains various Synodontis, including an adult S. notatus, typically varies from ~20C to ~27C with the seasons (average is ~22C outside extremes). Like all my indoor tanks, it only gets a heater added if we have a really chilly spell.

My small Chaetostoma collection (sadly down to four after losing my dorsale recently, bought as a ~4cm SL specimen ~4 years ago at Basingstoke Association Of Aquarists auction) learnt to recognise Tetra Prima, New Era Catfish Pellets and JBL Novo Rift as food. These days always in quarantine, after ...

As I discovered recently, if you add live worms to your tank, they can live in there for weeks providing there is plenty of oxygen dissolved in the tank water. Two were put in a quarantine tank and one was still around three weeks later and returned to the garden.

Gutted, woken up this morning to find the poor fish dead in quarantine, offered all sorts of food including two live earthworms and one of them has gone back in the garden.

Bit late seeing this, but a small group of smaller might work in a high water turnover 15g.

If those four Clown loaches are already in this community, I think at least part of the answer is increase that loach group to 12+, enabling them to form a natural complex hierarchy and giving them more confidence to be active. From the Mochokidae group of catfish, I'm struggling to come up with man...

The new unknown looks like a Schilbe spp., perhaps or ?

http://www.seriouslyfish.com/whaddaya-mean-too-hot/ An eye-opening article to many fishkeepers, that I've had in my favourites for a few years. I have seven active tanks right now and the only one with a heater in it is my garage Rio 400, set at 20C over the winter (getting turned off soon for summe...

Very late seeing this thread, but here is an old video clip of my 25 Pareutropius mandevillei , with the tank backing removed temporarily to help make the catfish stand out. I still have them in the same tank, but I am absolutely awful at photographing and videoing my fish on a regular basis! Xvd8MX...

Is this catfish a Featherfin (Synodontis eupterus) or an Upside Down (S. nigriventris)? How long is it, excluding the tail fin (SL measurement)? I'd expect a ~7cm SL adult Syndontis nigriventris to still be considered lunch by an adult ~34cm SL Oscar (should be ~30cm SL by ~2 years), while an adult ...

Thanks for the input so far! It seems my biggest challenge might be to get this new Chrysichthys eating dried food, namely New Era pellets squashed into a ball, like my other one raised from a baby. I've offered a fresh ball the last two nights and neither appear to have been eaten, so were syphoned...

Great looking fish, there aren't many of us that appear to have Mochokidae catfish that are not synos! If it is like my four Euchilichthys spp., they are far more adaptable as regards food than I expected with that under-slung mouth, the quartet in my 6-foot tank are like vultures at food time and l...

Back in September 2012, I purchased a ~3cm SL baby C. ornatus, who quickly reached ~20cm SL within two years. This specimen is now pretty close to fully grown, at least ~23cm SL. Yesterday, I purchased a ~16cm C. ornatus at the Association Of Aquarists auction, who has one had one functional eye sin...

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I would say lucipinnis for at least two of the photographed fish, but there are three in photos 1 and 2, due to smaller black spots on the head that are much more densely packed than on the body. There are far better qualified members than me to identify Synos, the above is my opinion, I've only bee...

Depending upon your tank water stats, you could do a Congo catfish setup with big social groups of... Pareutropius spp. (mandivillei, if you can source them) Synodontis nigriventris Synodontis brichardi Dimly lit; bits of bogwood scattered (or glued to the tank sides) at various levels; pebbles and ...

For some reason, I thought I replied to this thread months ago, but it appears not! MartinS gave me a Chaetostoma specimen almost 5 years ago, that is still alive and kicking, sharing a tanks with my Steatocranus casuarius adults/teens; 2 Chaetostoma cf. aff. milesi; 1 C. dorsale; 1 C. formosae; the...

Sounds like a singleton or a 5+ group of (previously known as L204 Flash Plec) could be a possibility.