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I think this is

I found him in a tank of

15mm TL

Nice find
It would be probable that the ID is correct based on the fact that the species pictured in the cat-elog also came in with .
Hopefully not too silly a question but on the assumption that you are keeping it, how are parasitic catfish kept in the home aquaria? Feeding?
Martin

Dave Rinaldo wrote:I think this is

Tridensimillis brevis

. I found him in a tank of

Corydoras pygmaeus

That's exactly how I got mine some years ago.
@ Martin as well: it fed on characin scales. The fishes were damaged; "wounds" were very superficial, yet noticable. It did very well for a couple of months and then it just disappeared without a trace, which I regretted very much. The characins were quite relieved though .

Marc van Arc wrote:

Dave Rinaldo wrote:I think this is

Tridensimillis brevis

. I found him in a tank of

Corydoras pygmaeus

That's exactly how I got mine some years ago.
@ Martin as well: it fed on characin scales. The fishes were damaged; "wounds" were very superficial, yet noticable. It did very well for a couple of months and then it just disappeared without a trace, which I regretted very much. The characins were quite relieved though .

Thanks Marc - much appreciated.
Martin

You can get these guys to eat frozen bloodworm pretty easily. I kept some for a while in a very simply tank just with sand and java moss. They got a couple of bloodworms each per day.

Jools