Thank you all for your help.
Cool little fish regardless I shall call him mini-devil cat :)

additional shots for id :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v442/hotblooded/Critters/Fish/Catfish/IMG_0259_cra.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v442/hotblooded/Critters/Fish/Catfish/IMG_0264_cra ...

small about 2.5" currently....

This was supposed to be a Cephalosilurus fowleri but I am thinking it might be a Cephalosilurus nigricaudus

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v442/hotblooded/Critters/Fish/010_cr.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v442/hotblooded/Critters/Fish/008_cr.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums ...

Thank you I do believe that is it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v442/hotblooded/Critters/Fish/001_cr.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v442/hotblooded/Critters/Fish/002_cr.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v442/hotblooded/Critters/Fish/004_cr.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v442/hotblooded/Critters/Fish ...

was this fish once called Synodontis schoutedeni? I have some that I bought as synos but look exactly like the juvi pic.

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Thanks. It was a craigslist rescue. I did not really look at it until much later as he just said it was a reg pleco so I put him in the tank with my gib. I got a 9" female Johana pike, a 15" ropefish, 5 clown loaches between 3 and 6", and 4 giant danios for $40. He was asking $20 but I felt guilty ...

Just a guess but Maybe

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Wow I almost bought some whew impulse shopping for the lose but still don't they grow real slow or am I confused?

Picked this guy up as a reg rubber pleco but recently he developed the spots and reddish tail color.

Ken,
Not Dave here but I think those are the cats I saw at Amazonia this weekend here in Austin.

Tony