Catfish & Loach Show and auction - National Catfish Champion

[N0body Of The Goat, posts: 150]

Any ideas on what "microsynodontis sp.polleni" is meant to be? M. polli or M. sp.1, perhaps?

[The.Dark.One, posts: 1438]

I'm not sure until the day. He gets stuff direct from Africa so not sure

[The.Dark.One, posts: 1438]

Well, it's been a manic day but I can honestly say that there will never have been an auction like this one for the range and scarcity of species available and at the prices offered.

Thank you to everyone who sponsored the event, and to those who sold and bought fish, and to those who helped us out. We couldn't have done it without you.

Well done to Mark Walters for having the first National Catfish Champion, to John Egan for Best Catfish and Best Loach.

Here are some (poor) pics of some of the show fish.

[N0body Of The Goat, posts: 150]

A few stunners in those photos, including that male Callichthys looking in great shape! I never realised that "Spotted Raphaels" became such stocky catfish with hunched backs either, someone I know has a couple of youngsters and the really appealed after seeing them in the flesh for the first time.

[The.Dark.One, posts: 1438]

That Callichthys was gorgeous, and a monster!

Yeah, as the spotted doras get bigger and fatter their body shape alters. They are lovely fish.

[Birger]

Any ideas on what "microsynodontis sp.polleni" is meant to be? M. polli or M. sp.1, perhaps?

What did the above mentioned Microsyno's turn out to be??

Birger

[CoryWally, posts: 216]

Hi Birger,
They were the most frequently available M. sp 1. There were some other great mochokidae available including Euchilichthys royauxi, S. eupterus (lovely fish but unsold), S. nigriventris, S. batesi (adult pair), B. batensoda and probably others I can't remember.

Cheers,
Mark

[N0body Of The Goat, posts: 150]

Hi Birger,
They were the most frequently available M. sp 1. There were some other great mochokidae available including Euchilichthys royauxi, S. eupterus (lovely fish but unsold), S. nigriventris, S. batesi (adult pair), B. batensoda and probably others I can't remember.

Cheers,
Mark

Never even looked up Euchilichthys spp. on here before, they almost look like blander and larger S. brichardi!

I'm still ruing a partial disaster with my Microsynodontis sp.1s, I lost 7 of my 10 that used to be so diurnal and active, just over a month ago. I was struggling to work out what was going on, but then finally when observing one day I saw the odd Ilyodon xantusi youngster attacking the catfish (yet curiously, the catfish were completely left alone by the Ilyodon parents a few months back, when they shared a tank for ~6 weeks). I isolated and quarantined the catfish (including my singelton M. polli) from the Ilyodon for a month and neither tank had any further deaths, so I re-introduced the catfish back to my 140l mainly small African community (Phenacogrammus nigropterus; Steatocranus tinanti young duo; Synodntis nigriventris group plus a singleton congica; MartinS' old Chaetostoma milesi; MatsP's tank bred Nannostomus beckfordi).

Anyway, another great looking show and once again I'm left wishing I could get to one of these events at some point!

[The.Dark.One, posts: 1438]

That's a shame.

Yes, hopefully you can be at the next one