Catfish Photography

[HAMidtun]

Been a bit quiet from me lately. Got a new job, went on holiday, photographed some wild, marine fish for once. But I am back behind the camera with catfish in front of it now

Got to shoot the Shadow Catfish Hyalobagrus flavus yesterday for Haakon's up coming presentation on catfish keeping (if I understood the subject correct).

Here's the result of this quite cool, little catfish

[HAMidtun]

Finally had some time to photograph some more fish, and this cool species caught my eye.
Marbled Talking Catfish (Amblydoras nauticus)

[Jools]

The close-ups are super-cool. Thanks for posting these, I've added them to the species profile now.

Cheers,


Jools

[HAMidtun]

Finally got some proper time to do shoots! Had about 6 hours yesterday and 6 hours today, so prepare for more shots from me!

First up for yesterdays session, this elongated fella.
We landed on that this was a Giant Whiptail Catfish Pseudohemiodon laticeps, but there were no labels on the tank, and thus the owner needed to do a deepdive into the archives to look it up.
Feel free to correct the ID if we're off

[HAMidtun]

Next up is another elongated one, and a rather cool little species, Rineloricaria aurata

[Jools]

I think the Planiloricaria might actually be Pseudohemiodon. There are a few of these from Peru. On phone at the moment, when I get to a big screen I’ll have a look unless anyone else wants to chip in with an ID?

Cheers

Jools

[HAMidtun]

I think the Planiloricaria might actually be Pseudohemiodon.

That might be, I'm still very very much a novice on catfish in general (I just enjoy the photography and species diversity ). So I get the IDs from my colleague who owns/imports the fish. I can ask for an origin of the specimen if that helps?

Also, next species up, Pictus Catfish (Pimelodus pictus)

[HAMidtun]

Revisited a species that I did before as I didn't particularly like my previous shots of it.

Synodontis lucipinnis

[HAMidtun]

Haven't done a proper L-number in a while, so here is nr L015 (Peckoltia vittata)

[HAMidtun]

Last Loricaridae of the shoot, Orinoco Polka-dot Pleco (Hypancistrus contradens)

[HAMidtun]

Last catfish from the recent shoots, the Anchor Catfish (Erethistes jerdoni)