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Anyone want to play a game of guess who?

I'll start:

I have 5 branched rays in my dorsal along with my main Dorsal spine.
I am a catfish but tend towards surface feeding.

Theres your first clues.

Matt

Is it the new Grokefish?

auchenipterid

All good guesses, your clever people straight onto the correct family.
Well done Richard was that a complete guess?
Bit obvious really.

Well then heres one a bit harder.

I am from the Amazon.
I will eat anything I can get in my gob.
I have an incomplete lateral line sometimes surpassing the adipose-fin end, not reaching the caudal fin



Matt

Surely a Pimelodidae. ?

is close but not that close as red tails don't have any really close relatives although I am suspicious that is in fact closer related than is generally thought.

think smaller.

Matt

grokefish wrote:All good guesses, your clever people straight onto the correct family.
Well done Richard was that a complete guess?
Bit obvious really.
Matt

Given some of your recent posts, missing the grokefish, selling the tig - it wasn't hard to figure.....

Are you joining in Rich on this one, it's harder.

Matt

Cephalosilurus fowleri? The side line thing bothers me a little, but at least that rules out Lophiosilurus......

next clue.
I have three identified species which are distinguished by the colours of their caudal fins.

Matt

Who has? You or the species? Does that make 4 or 3 species in total? Too difficult! Another clue pls

I'm a bit clueless on this one maybe???

You do have a lot of Brachyplatystoma btw (checked Your Cats in case you were talking of a species you actually owned )

Also: this should go to Speak Easy I reckon.

I like to live in small rivers and creeks and like deep zones wher the current is slow the bottom is shady and sandy and I am must definitely an ambush predator some would say a little assassin .

Matt

I agree speak easy too late now lets finnish this one and then the winner takes a turn.
I'm sure Mats will do it for us.

Matt

Chaca!

Doesn't ring any bells. Next clue pls.

Richard B wrote:Chaca!

Not from the Amazon

Oh we have a proffesional in the mix!
It's a good guess but it's not the right answer.

Ok easy clue now.

I am a very rounded fish both Laterally and dorsally, my pelvic fins origin are vertically in line with the end of the dorsal fin and I have small eyes and six barbels.

Matt

Sorry Matt, I'm out. Still have no idea and it's already 1 'o clock over here..... Hope it's no Auchenipterid

We shall continue tommorow?
Hey Marc i am going to be working in the netherlands this year don't know where yet but maybe I could drop in and see you?

Easy clue so you don't stay awake thinking about it.

I have cryptic colouration which is definitive of my family and I am sometimes mistaken for microglanis when young much to the detriment of dwarf cichlids and such like in a comunity aquarium.
See ya.

Matt

Marc van Arc wrote:

Richard B wrote:Chaca!

Not from the Amazon

Doh!

Well, if it's not (which Richard already mentioned before he came up with Chaca ), it has to be a , probably bufonius or charus. Right?

Btw: you're most welcome to drop in.

OOOPPPSSS!

Sorry Richard (And Marc) I missed that post.

My all time favorite fish, I would leave my Wife and kids to spend my life studying this fish in it's natural habitat

You guys are good!

Richard wins this round!

Cmon then Your turn.

Matt

Ok then,

I look like a should be in Marc's favourite family but i'm not.
I'm small & brown & born in a marsh.

Ooooo
This sounds like a fun one.

Matt

Is the marsh in Asia?

Matt

I think you have it by jove!

matt