what kind of upside down cat do i have?

oneoddfish · Post by **oneoddfish** » 20 Jan 2003, 02:14

Iwassoldthis fish 10months ago he's know 8-10inch's long jet black with a few tiny baby blue spot's on him.his head is slightly sloped.he stay's just under a large piece of drift wood in my 240gal.he's ALWAY'S upside down. I have 3 pic's but can't fig. out how to attach them. thank's in advance for you'r help everybody..

P.S. he kinda looks like a type of syno.he also has adeep fork in his tail and real long whisker's.

Post by **Rusty** » 20 Jan 2003, 02:17

Email them to me.

Post by **Dinyar** » 20 Jan 2003, 02:26

Probably not a Syno at all. Mystus leucophasis.

See http://www.planetcatfish.com/cotm/2000-03.htm

Dinyar

PS: Rusty, see, when you get good at this, you don't need pix!

Dave Rinaldo · Post by **Dave Rinaldo** » 20 Jan 2003, 02:30

Maybe Mystus leucophasis.

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Dave Rinaldo · Post by **Dave Rinaldo** » 20 Jan 2003, 02:33

Dinyar,

You win

Dave

Zack · Post by **Zack** » 20 Jan 2003, 03:10

Deffinately sounds like a upside down mystus or asian upside down cat. The long whiskers give it away. Nice fish though. Iv been trying to get one for a long time. What other cats do you have in your 240?

oneoddfish · Post by **oneoddfish** » 20 Jan 2003, 03:56

YOU GUY'S ARE AWSOME!!!!!!!I can't can't believe this I was still trying to email pic's to rusty they wouldn't go said file to big? I come back here to post they won't go through and you guy's already figured it out mystus leucophasis he looks just like that pic.how big will he get? thanks again

zack,I have a baby giraffe cat syno.notatus,paroon shark 10in.a couple other unkowns i'll post soon black arrowana some vampire tetra's chocolate red eye plec's a 3ft.blk/wht. fire eel sorry but just started learning latin names.Ialso have a 180gal.full of cory's and rare plec's to tired to list all now gonna try to make pic. album of my tanks soon.

Post by **Silurus** » 20 Jan 2003, 04:14

Mystus leucophasis will reach about 20 cm (these were the sizes of the biggest specimens I have seen, so maybe they'll get slightly bigger).
Good thing you have only one. They're generally mild towards tankmates, but conspecifics will beat each other up badly.

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 20 Jan 2003, 12:29

Silurus wrote:Mystus leucophasis will reach about 20 cm (these were the sizes of the biggest specimens I have seen, so maybe they'll get slightly bigger).

I have seen one that was easily 30cm (12") SL. A striking fish.

Jools

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 20 Jan 2003, 17:40

Hi!

My experience is that they are terrors to other fish especially the mid-level dwellers and slow fish....so much for the beat-each-other-up:
http://jjj.image.pbase.com/u16/valarauk ... Mystus.jpg
although it was a pair m/f...mine were 18/16 cm and still growing...they reached that from 10 cm in half a year. I kept them in a 240 Litre tank btw.

oneoddfish · Post by **oneoddfish** » 01 Feb 2003, 17:35

Mine, doesn't bother anyone in the tank he even let one of my unidentified pleco's take the spot under a log he's been using for month's. He just moved over about 9 inches to another branch no fight's or nothing.there is weaker fish for him to pick on but it don't seem to be in his nature.

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