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i bought this fish about six months ago for 10 U.S dollers i know it is an upside down catfish but i am not sure of the species it is about 7 to 8 inches long with large blue eyes and is very active, and swims upside down about 90% of the time, very friendly, also he will let me pet him on the back most of the time sorry about the quality of the pictures but all i have is camera phone any help with identifying him would be greatly appreciated .

-Shane

I'm glad to see what you wrote about the personality of your syno. I just acquired a hybrid syno, which the gentlemen here who know far more than I ever will are guessing is a hybrid of the s. euptera. "Domino," as we call her very quickly became our favorite fish because of the same personality traits you described. Congratulations on finding such a wonderful pet! It sounds like you did what I did and gambled on a really great-looking fish without really knowing much about it. Nice to hear that someone else got lucky, too.

thank you very much

Timberwolf wrote:It sounds like you did what I did and gambled on a really great-looking fish without really knowing much about it.

Not something to be encouraged, though, unless you can at least make an educated guess at what type of catfish it is--to be frank.

thank you for that advice chrysichthys i will remember that in the future, this was my father inlaws fish he had him in with a dempsey and the jack was beating him up very badly we found him almost dead so i had to save him but thank god he recovered 100% it would have been to great of a fish to lose and i am very happy with the outcome of the gamble