Did you know fantastic help is an anagram of Planet Catfish? This forum is for those of you with pictures of your catfish who are looking for help identifying them. There are many here to help and a firm ID is the first step towards keeping your catfish in the best conditions.
Yes, I agree that this does not look like L015 to me, but fishes that look like yours are notoriously difficult to classify.
Several years ago I bought two very nice Peckoltia that were sold as L15. I sent pictures to Jools and Erwin Schraml. After some discussion, they concluded it was L080.
(Picture is here: http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/lo ... /675_f.htm).
Jools would be the best person to ID your fish and explain why it's not L015.
Interests: large cats-odd balls-I also breed alot of different african cichlid. but my favorite thing is collecting RARE or very hard to obtain fish...
I surely don't want to insinuate that I know more than you two.Because I'm not even close to that level of fish knowledge. But by studying several pic's. the marking's by eye's and pattern going down back look's almost identical to me.The coloration is off a bit but that alway's changes with mood and such. what are you guy's going by? I'm looking at pic's in aqualog.
Well, I would call this fish Peckoltia vittata of which L15 is one form of although the fish doesn't appear to be that variable given its current definition (a revalidation might well expand this greatly).
Any chance of sneaking up to the fish in the dark (dark room & dark tank) and taking a photo of the eyes?
Thanks Tim.
This Peckoltia vittata come in with a shipment of catfish and discus from rio xingu and rio tapajos, there for I thought it's L15 . The other one L199 was sold as LDA19 and come in with a shipment from Colombia last week.
I will try to take a new photo of her eyes and hopefully you can help me to be sure wich vittata it is.