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Hi! Could someone please help me with identifying these catfish? I ordered tatia / centromochlus musaica and these beautiful little guys arrived, but due to the pattern on them, the colouration on their fins and their size I am unsure as to the species! If anyone has experience with this genus and could advise that would be amazing, these guys are around 2.5 inches but I was advised by the shop that these are juveniles. (I apologise for the quality of the photos)

Hi @Cheslea,

Welcome to PlanetCatfish!

Good on you to get something different!

Those are definitely not ... They appear to be a bit color-faded, and I'm not confident in their ID, but they share some resemblance to Tatia cf. intermedia and . That said, I don't think they're T. dunni as the tail pattern doesn't look like what I see in T. dunni pics, and as far as I know, T. dunni is exported much, so I'm really not sure what they are.

Good luck with them. How many did you get? Do you have both sexes?

Cheers, Eric

These sure look like my young Tatia intermedia to me. They could certainly be something else, but that’s what my best guess would be.

Great fish, grow them up and they will be very active at feeding time!!

Agreed, may be a species complex, with the type being somewhere in Brazil's Rio Negro IIRC. However, collections of these fishes don't seem to have consistent external differences as far as I've seen. Care of them is the same luckily!

Nice fish, thanks for posting.

Cheers,

Jools