Rhamdella?

[Dave Rinaldo]

Just showing the length of caudal.
8.25" TL

[Viktor Jarikov]

I had 3 of these - bought from CT. One of them had a clearly and significantly longer hind half of the body and the caudal fin. Other than that, all 3 looked identical.

[Bijn]

A little bit late, but it seems like we have the same species. I never thought they would grow that big. Mine are still a lot smaller.

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... 98#p227798

[Jools]

Wow, that's a fish. These things are a nightmare to ID, but the long adipose base would seem to indicate

Pimelodella

?

Jools

[Bijn]

They look a lot like the fish pictured as Rhamdella leptosoma. Sadly the tail isn't intact. The dark patch in the dorsal is a match.

http://silurus.acnatsci.org/ACSI/sample ... ridae.html

[The.Dark.One]

Some of these showed up in the UK last year. The males get very long caudal lobes. I have a very bad pic of lovely adult male that belonged to Ian Fuller. They are a Pimelodella according to a heptapterid ichthyologist I contacted but he could not ID it to species level.

[Bijn]

He looks like he's a lot bigger than my male, how big is he?

[The.Dark.One]

From memory I think he was about 14 or 15cm SL.