Can you please confirm IDs on these Synodontis?

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Can you please confirm IDs on these Synodontis?

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Hi All,

My LFS has these Synodontis for sale, imported as
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(2)
(3) Synodontis (no specific epithet, but maybe ?)

Can you please confirm IDs or give me better matches? I thought the "decorus" looked like , although the tail looked close for decorus, and I thought the third fish looked like . But is there a wild Synodontis that looks similar?

Thanks, Eric

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The decorus look like they could be real, as the genuine ones have stripes in both dorsal and caudal. When bigger one should see a black extension on the dorsal and spot easier the maxillary barbels having branches.
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Number 1 could also be Lucipinnis. Great article on here on how to tell them apart.
Number 2 agree Decorus....see the article on the stripped version.
Number 3 hybrid species 9. Ornatripinnus is pretty rare to find. A number of videos out there...still a cool Catfish.
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Anyone else with a grounded opinion?
Ralfieboy wrote: 10 May 2020, 18:15 Number 1 could also be Lucipinnis. Great article on here on how to tell them apart.
Number 2 agree Decorus....see the article on the stripped version.
Number 3 hybrid species 9. Ornatripinnus is pretty rare to find. A number of videos out there...still a cool Catfish.
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I just watched a video searching Synodontis Pardalis. Sergei was the first name. It shows fry growing over a two year period. The stage before the spots looks like your Catfish. Be cool if it was a Pardalis. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf_GM6g_2mM

Right now I have 8 Multipunctatus, 6 Petricola, 4 Granulosus, 1 Decorus, 10 Polli White coming from Germany next week. I have Pardalis and hybrid 9 on my wish list and be funny if they were the same fish. Time will tell...cheers.
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Thanks for sharing that video. I agree that would be nice if they were real . I didn't get to ask the store owner what name he ordered them as. I'll ask next time I see him.

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To me both 2 and 3 look like hybrids, there is no evidence of pardalis at all.
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Post by Fishmandavew »

I would agree with Victor that number 2 could quite possibly be young decorous, only time will tell. As for number three I can see why it was thought it could be ornatipinnis and in my view it looks closer to this than to hybrid 9, but I do still think it’s a hybrid, one I would buy just to prove myself right or wrong.
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