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by Kryptic
24 Mar 2024, 18:48
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: Synodontis Tourei
Replies: 5
Views: 352

Re: Synodontis Tourei

Isn't this one a ?
by Kryptic
22 Jan 2024, 17:07
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: Lake Tanganyikan Synodontis ID
Replies: 7
Views: 1008

Re: Lake Tanganyikan Synodontis ID

Yes the darker specimens are as well grandiops/multipunctatus, they just seem to be a bit darker. I've seen some equally dark specimens of grandiops before so it is definitely just variation between specimens.
by Kryptic
22 Jan 2024, 16:57
Forum: All Resolved Issues
Topic: Synodontis soloni
Replies: 2
Views: 490

Synodontis soloni

Going through the Cat-eLog I noticed something weird with . The ventral view photo seems to show a picture that of a Parauchenoglanis sp. rather than a Synodontis soloni.
by Kryptic
22 Jan 2024, 16:14
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: Lake Tanganyikan Synodontis ID
Replies: 7
Views: 1008

Re: Lake Tanganyikan Synodontis ID

All the synos in your first post are either multipunctatus or grandiops, best way to tell them apart is to count the fin rays as you already know. The fish pictured in your second post looks to me like a hybrid, because of its large eye (too large to be a lucipinnis) and white pectoral and dorsal fi...
by Kryptic
28 Jan 2023, 20:33
Forum: African Catfishes
Topic: Synodontis granulosus breeding?
Replies: 5
Views: 1560

Re: Synodontis granulosus breeding?

That does look like breeding, but those don't look like S. granulosus. These have white on the outer edges of their tails and black barbles.
by Kryptic
23 Oct 2022, 20:25
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: ID of twenty Synodontis
Replies: 3
Views: 727

Re: ID of twenty Synodontis

All 20 of them are hybrids, between which species, I can’t tell for sure.
by Kryptic
24 Apr 2022, 20:27
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: Help identify my catfish
Replies: 3
Views: 1385

Re: Help identify my catfish

As Viktor already said it is a hybrid. And it is a hybrid between Synodontis eupterus and S. multipunctatus.
by Kryptic
17 Apr 2022, 11:44
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: Help identifying please!
Replies: 4
Views: 2003

Re: Help identifying please!

The yellowish dorsal and pectoral fin spines makes me think that this is Synodontis obesus.
by Kryptic
27 Mar 2022, 15:00
Forum: African Catfishes
Topic: Synodontis granulosus: tank information
Replies: 12
Views: 5559

Re: Synodontis granulosus: tank information

Since noone else has given you an answer, I'll try to answer your questions to my best knowledge. The recommended 500l is good for one fish but in your case when you want to breed these a bigger tank would be more suitable for multible inviduals as granulosus is know to be rather aggressive. From th...
by Kryptic
29 Dec 2021, 18:45
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: Syn?
Replies: 8
Views: 2294

Re: Syn?

That is S. notatus.
by Kryptic
28 Oct 2021, 10:01
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: L333?
Replies: 6
Views: 3198

Re: L333?

I am not a pleco expert but this isn't a Hypancistrus sp. and it looks more like Peckoltia compta to me.
by Kryptic
16 Sep 2021, 10:51
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: Help Identify my Cat Fish
Replies: 8
Views: 5309

Re: Help Identify my Cat Fish

This is also a S. ocellifer, and this is what the fish in the first post should look like if it had its missing fins.
by Kryptic
29 Aug 2021, 20:12
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: Help Identify my Cat Fish
Replies: 8
Views: 5309

Re: Help Identify my Cat Fish

That is a Synodontis ocellifer. Your fish also seems to be missing both of its pectoral fins and its dorsal fin.
by Kryptic
20 Aug 2021, 19:33
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!
Replies: 35
Views: 17176

Re: A not so experienced pleco keeper chugging along, L397 for start!

I once had a chance to get a group of green laser corys but I turned the offer down... I am deeply regretting that decision now since those fish look stunning!
by Kryptic
20 Aug 2021, 19:30
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: Lifetime of your fish
Replies: 6
Views: 3602

Re: Lifetime of your fish

I just received, maybe a week ago, a Synodontis flavitaeniatus that is supposedly in his twenties and honestly he does look like it as well. I also have some other synos getting close to being in their twenties. But the oldest fish I have ever heard of was a 37 year old S. decorus. Someone in a Finn...
by Kryptic
03 Aug 2021, 12:20
Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
Topic: Paleatus swimming weirdly, IBS issue ?
Replies: 7
Views: 3440

Re: Paleatus swimming weirdly, IBS issue ?

As far as I am aware Corydoras do have a swim bladder. And the deformation of the spine is caused either by a mutation or by an injury that has healed over time but has then left a kink on the spine.
by Kryptic
02 Aug 2021, 15:46
Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
Topic: Paleatus swimming weirdly, IBS issue ?
Replies: 7
Views: 3440

Re: Paleatus swimming weirdly, IBS issue ?

Seems like it has something wrong with its swim bladder, also if I am seeing correctly looks like the fish in question also has a deformation on its spine, I don't know if that adds onto its swim bladder issue.

Sadly I don't think there is much to be done in this situation.
by Kryptic
16 Jul 2021, 19:47
Forum: Travellers note book
Topic: Fishes near Iquitos
Replies: 64
Views: 43772

Re: Fishes near Iquitos

I think you are right with that Ambylodoras being A. nauticus. Other known specie from Iquitos is A. monitor but I think they have less markings than nauticus.
by Kryptic
27 Jun 2021, 17:34
Forum: African Catfishes
Topic: WC Synodontis sp. "Kenya"?
Replies: 12
Views: 15756

Re: WC Synodontis sp. "Kenya"?

Had to do an other reply to post the pics of the Synodontis cf. zanzibaricus! Also I noticed that S. ruandae only has drawings as pictures on the site so if my pictures are good enough you guys can use them.
by Kryptic
27 Jun 2021, 17:28
Forum: African Catfishes
Topic: WC Synodontis sp. "Kenya"?
Replies: 12
Views: 15756

Re: WC Synodontis sp. "Kenya"?

The fish sold as Synodontis afrofischeri were indeed genuine, but the fish being sold as S. victoriae proved to be a S. ruandae or at least the one specimen I got. Sadly I lost that fish few days ago because of a local heatwave, I'll attach some pictures of him here. The sp. "Kenya" seems ...
by Kryptic
04 Jun 2021, 19:28
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: ID of this fish??
Replies: 4
Views: 2661

Re: ID of this fish??

I'd say this is , but as Silurus said underwater pictures would be helpful to make the ID 100% accurate.

(Mod edit. Fixed typo in name)
by Kryptic
14 Mar 2021, 17:41
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: Synodontis schall look alike
Replies: 3
Views: 3102

Re: Synodontis schall look alike

Here are some more pictures I've got of him over the years. Although these pics are not the best for many reasons (mostly because they are taken with flash so they don't show the true colour of the fish) you can see some details like the fine spots on the upper half of his body and some of the marki...
by Kryptic
13 Mar 2021, 16:33
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: Synodontis schall look alike
Replies: 3
Views: 3102

Synodontis schall look alike

I got this guy about 4 years ago in a Nigerian import with a name Synodontis sp. "Nigeria". The problem is that I don't know whether the fish was actually caught in Nigeria and thus given the name sp. Nigeria or was it caught elsewhere and just imported from Nigeria. I don't remember all t...
by Kryptic
12 Mar 2021, 21:14
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: What species is this
Replies: 9
Views: 3422

Re: What species is this

Yeah thats a blochii.
by Kryptic
12 Mar 2021, 11:46
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: What species is this
Replies: 9
Views: 3422

Re: What species is this

Looks like a from that angle.
by Kryptic
05 Mar 2021, 19:52
Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
Topic: My Corydoras pictures
Replies: 16
Views: 7568

Re: My Corydoras pictures

I'd say that is a B. splendens, pictured fish has a correct number of dorsal fin rays (12) to be a splendens. I don't know any other species that would have that colour and that many dorsal fin rays.
by Kryptic
04 Mar 2021, 16:55
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: ID this catfish - Trichomycterus ??
Replies: 18
Views: 6656

Re: ID this catfish - Trichomycterus ??

I'm by no means an expert with these catfish so take my words with a grain of salt. With all the info provided my guess would be Trichomycterus spilosoma , as this species exhibits the same kind of fine spotting on the body and fins. Also on the dorsal and caudal fin you can see the colour turning i...
by Kryptic
28 Feb 2021, 20:30
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: Brown Synodontis
Replies: 7
Views: 3935

Re: Brown Synodontis

Yeah I have to agree with you Viktor, the pattern is little off on the fins. This is partly why I was originally suspecting that she is S. rebeli because in its description in Seegers' The Catfishes of Africa it says "...with numerous irregularly distributed, roundish black spots of around pupi...
by Kryptic
28 Feb 2021, 16:48
Forum: African Catfishes
Topic: WC Synodontis sp. "Kenya"?
Replies: 12
Views: 15756

Re: WC Synodontis sp. "Kenya"?

I stumbled across this thread few months ago and immediately realised wich wholesaler and fish was in question. I had ordered both Synodontis afrofischeri and victoriae from them but didn't dare to oder the sp. kenya because I wasn't sure if any of those fish were genuine. Both of the fish I odered ...
by Kryptic
28 Feb 2021, 13:57
Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
Topic: My Corydoras pictures
Replies: 16
Views: 7568

Re: My Corydoras pictures

Absolutely amazing pics! Makes me want to keep Corydoras again... wish I had more room...

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