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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 :D

Got to shoot the Shadow Catfish 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 :D
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Finally had some time to photograph some more fish, and this cool species caught my eye.
Marbled Talking Catfish ()
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The close-ups are super-cool. Thanks for posting these, I've added them to the species profile now.

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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 , 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 :)
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Next up is another elongated one, and a rather cool little species,
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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?

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Jools wrote: 28 Jun 2023, 15:31 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 :d ). 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 ()
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Revisited a species that I did before as I didn't particularly like my previous shots of it.

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Haven't done a proper L-number in a while, so here is nr L015 ()
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Last Loricaridae of the shoot, Orinoco Polka-dot Pleco ()
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Last catfish from the recent shoots, the Anchor Catfish () :d
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Back behind the camera, with catfish in front of it!
Work and travel had me smashed out with no time for catfish photography unfortunately.
However, my good mate Haakon is heading to Ohio in a week or so to do a presentation on Apistogramma and "An Ode to Oddball Catfish" at the Ohio Cichlid Association Extravaganza.
My main reason to satrt with photographing catfish was to produce images for his presentation, and there was a few last species and individuals he wanted photos of.

One of them is
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Another species you get to learn a bit about from my good mate Haakon at the Ohio Cichlid Association Extravaganza is this Dwarf Synodontis (Microsynodontis sp. "Nigeria")
If anyone can nail this one down to species, feel free to yell it out. I'll dig a bit and see if I can get some more info regarding this fish.
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It's undescribed - see .

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Jools wrote: 12 Nov 2023, 12:41 It's undescribed - see .
Thanks Jools!

Over to some species you won't see on Haakon's presentation, the Nail Cory ()
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Last species from this shoot; Goldstar Bristlenose () both male and female :D
Hopefully I'll get to do some more shoots in the coming weeks :)
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Awesome, thanks for posting.

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Wonderful indeed and thoroughly appreciated.
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Thank you for the kind word!

To follow up last week, I've managed to photograph some more catfish! One of my fav. photo subjects so far, L135. What a gorgeous catfish!
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And last image
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Continuing in the Loricariidae lane with the Sertanejo Pleco ()
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Hi Halvard,

Thanks for posting the new pics. I'm sorry to be so pedantic (and I know it's a pain) but is there any chance you could flip horizontally all the Peckoltia pictures so they face the left? I'd do it myself but your logo / watermark is, in most cases, not going to look good when I flip a selection of it.

Is that OK? No rush, but the images are amongst your best....

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HAMidtun wrote: 18 Nov 2023, 20:22 Thank you for the kind word!

To follow up last week, I've managed to photograph some more catfish! One of my fav. photo subjects so far, L135. What a gorgeous catfish!
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Of course Jools! This one must have slipped through as I usually do it.
I'll send them to you in an e-mail
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Following up with more Loricariidae, but a smaller species, Black Oto ()
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Continuing with more Loricariidae, the Striped Twig Catfish ()
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Taking a short jump over to corys before I continue on the Loricariidae train, Pantanal Cory ()
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I've officially been bitten by the Pleco-bug. There are some true gems in the Loricariidae family, but before I get to the proper jewels I'll fling out some of the more "drab" coloured ones.
I took my time and photographed almost all the Loricariidae I was missing in my photo gallery from the pet store, so prepare yourself for a pleco-avalanche.
The Butterfly Pleco () L052
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Next brown coloured one;
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Next, somewhat drab coloured catfish, but with a nice patterning, Tiger "Peckoltia"
Last image in next post ;)
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L002
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