PlanetCatfish.com

Hello. I have begun deciphering the complexity of the Catfish families and all of the species located within. I started with the Akysidae family and found that many of these species are probably not kept very often. Oddly enough, I also discovered that a user with the username N_F_S seems to have registered themself as a keeper of every single catfish species that probably exists due to the "my cats" database of registered keepers. Is this a legitimate source of information? If so, he (she uh?) holds the world record for most catfish species kept by a single hobbyist in my opinion. That would be considered extremely impressive.
On top of that, I am delving into the family as well as their native island, which is Borneo. I believe that I will also become knowledgeable about the rivers in which the fish are native to. Acrochordonichthys falcifier (Asian Banjo Catfish) and Acrochordonichtys guttatus (No Common Name; New possible name: Brown Asian Longfin Catfish) are now two species that are listed in my database of knowledge.
In any case, what do people think about N_F_S and their world record that seems to be the case on this website?

I think N_F_S is a bug or historical data error, I'll have a look into it.

Cheers,

Jools

@Jools, I think the issue of N_F_S having all the Fishes, Wishes, Blogs and spots has come up before, because all of their F, W, B, & S had to be moved when I was repurposing invalid CLOG pages to new names and at that time the Move F, W, B, & S function was broken. That said, the profile owner returns periodically, as recently as June, so someone is engaging repeatedly. IDK what to make of that.

Cheers, Eric

On a cursory look, I can 't anything wrong with N_F_S data on the database from a software point of view. From a "common sense" point of view it looks unfeasible.

My cats data here https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/my ... name=N_F_S

Unless @N_F_S gets in touch and joins in this topic too explain something we've not yet realised, then I will just need to keep looking into it.

Cheers,

Jools

Hi,

this user is even "keeping" .
Just scanned through some corys, lots of noncredible entries.

Karsten S. wrote: 14 Feb 2025, 12:04 Hi,

this user is even "keeping"

Hoplisoma revelatum

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He should submit a spawning report on that species. I heard it likes hard water... REALLY HARD water.

Cheers, Eric

...and to collect the eggs you need hammer and chisel

So, I PMed @N_F_S a while back and no response. The account was registered to a legitimate gmail address in Portugal. Also, the five thousand plus My Cats records were created between 2024-03-28 and 2024-04-20, effectively one for every species but this does not seem to have been done programmatically. There are also My Wishes for each species and at least two sightings of each species.

Given the lack of contact, I've removed all the My Cats, Wishes and Spots data today.

Cheers,

Jools