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This beauty was sold to me as a regular giraffe catfish. When purchased, it was about 5inches long give or take. 2 years later it has only grown to about 8 inches or so and does not look quite right. Members of a local forum ID'd it as a dwarf giraffe catfish, but the pictures I come across still do not look correct. I am hoping someone here can ID it for me. Thank you
Steve

It's certainly not a dwarf like

have a look at & the rest of the genus

ps- senegali only gets to 8" SL

For sure

Also see here http://www.planetcatfish.com/cotm/cotm. ... cle_id=488

Birger

By George I think we have done it. Thank you very much for all of your help.

That is one beautiful Auchenoglanis senegali

Tanganyikafreak wrote:That is one beautiful Auchenoglanis senegali

Being that this is the first one I have ever seen, I will take your word, lol. It is not the least bit shy and comes right out when the pellets hit the gravel. It can and will hold it's own with anything that tries to take it's "spot" under the rockwork arch I made in the tank It is currently housed in a 75g growout with a small polleni, geo. heckeli, frontosa, severum, a Raphael catfish, a tiger loach and a clown knife. the filtration is an eheim 2217 and an undergravel filter. I know the tank is a bit crowded but I had to put them in there when my 180g was dropped and cracked in a move. I have tried to rehome the knife and Raphael but since I live about 40 miles outside of Houston it is hard to get someone to come get them, and I just can't see taking them back to the LFS. hopefully I will be able to upgrade sooner than later.

I agree with the ID too. One note though is that senegali and others appear to be not well studied (if the species is even valid altogether) and their max size is safe to say is unknown atm.

Birger is an expert hands down but I will still cite my reply to Segy on MFK http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forum ... fish/page3 :

"Looks like an Auchenoglanis to me. As for the species, IDK. The genus is in limbo currently - one revision says 8 species, another says 2. See this for more: http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... is#p268875

IDK if there is a dwarf Auchenoglanis species, although I did too have a couple that have not grown much from ~4"-5" in 2 years (I lost them then). They looked Auchenoglanis to me but I've never had it confirmed by those with knowledge."

Viktor Jarikov wrote:I agree with the ID too. One note though is that senegali and others appear to be not well studied (if the species is even valid altogether) and their max size is safe to say is unknown atm.

Birger is an expert hands down but I will still cite my reply to Segy on MFK http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forum ... fish/page3 :

"Looks like an Auchenoglanis to me. As for the species, IDK. The genus is in limbo currently - one revision says 8 species, another says 2. See this for more: http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... is#p268875

IDK if there is a dwarf Auchenoglanis species, although I did too have a couple that have not grown much from ~4"-5" in 2 years (I lost them then). They looked Auchenoglanis to me but I've never had it confirmed by those with knowledge."

And that is what brought me here.