which banjo do i have?

[jamieneaves]

hi! first time forum user!
i was just wondering if anyone canhelp identify which banjo i have? it was stated as a Bunocephalus coracoideus but im not so sure... sorry the pics arent very good, but he only comes out as night and was hidiing under a plant!











sorry about image overload, didnt know which was best view!

thanks,
jamie

[Silurus]

It does look like

Bunocephalus coracoideus

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[jamieneaves]

thanks, sorry, ive just realised this is in the completely wrong section! my eyes went straigh to south american catfish!
ok, cool, i was wondering, because it looks diffrent to my other one, this other is smaller and has a lot darker brown patterning!

[Richard B]

Welcome to Planet Catfish

Your fish looks a little bit more elongate than i would expect but that may just be the angle of the pic. I would be surprised if it was anything other than B.Coracoideus

[jamieneaves]

thanks for the help! cool, i was slightly worried for a moment i had one of the larger species, so thats good!
happy new years
jamie

[bronzefry]

Richard,
I got some B.coracoideus at an auction. They were on the "older" side, but I'm not sure how old. A few years later, they've gotten to appx.5"TL. I got younger ones recently, about 2"TL. It's amazing to see the difference in size. I can't wait to see the progression in size.
Amanda

[MatsP]

I got two (of which one survived the move to the new tank - a case of "I'd better buy some before they are no longer there" which is always a bad way to get fish - but sometimes we fail in our attempts to always do the right thing) and last time I saw it, it looked pretty much like the pictures here. I haven't seen it for a couple of weeks now, but I'm sure it's still in there - just hiding as per usual.

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Mats

[hotsauce48]

you're right the catfish is a bunocephalus caracoideus. The pics are'nt that bad.

[apistomaster]

Richard,
I got some B.coracoideus at an auction. They were on the "older" side, but I'm not sure how old. A few years later, they've gotten to appx.5"TL. I got younger ones recently, about 2"TL. It's amazing to see the difference in size. I can't wait to see the progression in size.
Amanda

Hi Amanda,
A 5-inch Banjo would be an old one. I have kept individual specimens as long as 5 years and none of them ever grew more than 4-inches TL.
They grow rapidly in the first 2 years then seem to slow down quite a bit.