Hello, recently heard about a few people getting "panda black red tail catfish". Does anyone have any actual information on these, if they're "real" or just a colour morph etc.
Max size info and all that will be helpful if anyone knows.

My friend jus rescued this cat today and unsure on the species, anyone know if Id or paroon? Very beaten up from travel

Hello, I have recently acquired a new lima shovelnose for my aquarium (been after a large one for a long time) and it measures 17.5 inches in length. Am I right in thinking that this is a true lima and not an elongatus?

Do you have any idea of the origin? I suspect Bagarius lica . Sorry no I don't, purchased from a local store that is know for getting in some rare catfish, including the Dorado and goonch. The person I spoke to said it's a bagarius bagarius hense why I purchased as they're known to stay smaller tha...

Purchased as bagarius bagarius, is an accurate identification?

Thanks a lot , time to get photographing

Yes measurement was total length so including tail

bekateen wrote: ↑25 Sep 2021, 17:37 Hi Lewis s,

Is that 37cm TL or SL? If SL, I'm leaning towards

Pseudopimelodus mangurus

, but if TL, I'm not so certain.

Cheers, Eric

Hello, sorry what is meant by TL or SL. I also thought mangurus after a while as too big to be bufonis but wasnt certain.

My vote is on bufonis. If past were of any indication, we never get mangurus in the trade. BTW, I don't see the memorable picture posted by Yellowcat in the Cat-eLog anymore under mangurus or any other Pseudopimelodus. I wonder what happened and why it disappeared. Yes I've just never heard of bufo...

Giant-p.-mungurus.jpgI'm inclined to agree with bekateen, the fish shown most closely resembles p. bufonis to me but they rarely grow past 23cm TL. I raised a p. bufonis variant to 28cm TL for many years and that being the largest I've seen. P. mangurus grow much larger, the Cat-elog shows them to ...

Roughly 37cm in size