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Vulture Catfish has black filaments protruding from body?
Posted: 19 May 2021, 16:54
by Viktor Jarikov
Asking for a peer on MFK:
https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/foru ... st-8343054
Is this normal and if so, what are these black short "hairs"? Click and enlarge to see clearly.
Re: Vulture Catfish has black filaments protruding from body?
Posted: 19 May 2021, 17:25
by bekateen
Never seen that before. I imagine that this group doesn't get odontodes, or do they? What's left? Parasites? Some kind of funky mucus extrusion from lateral line pores?
Stumped,
Eric
Re: Vulture Catfish has black filaments protruding from body?
Posted: 20 May 2021, 02:29
by fishguy1978
I would be tempted to try pulling one out with a pair of tweezers.
Re: Vulture Catfish has black filaments protruding from body?
Posted: 20 May 2021, 03:19
by Silurus
These look like epithelial projections that are prominent in some catfishes (e.g. in
and particularly
). If you look closely, the black projections are present right where the black spots are, and the pale projections are in places where the spots aren't.
