Any help with id have pair

Hi

the video won't play (for me anyway). It took me a while to see the cat in the second pic, but now that I do are you looking for ID's on two different cats or are they the same? The top one on the bottom photo does not look like the on under it. The top one looks like a blue channel cat, not sure about the bottom one. It is very hard to see, so very hard to ID correctly. Any chance of a better photo - sorry.

Daragh

I updated the links and the pics size ... it should work now

Valerie

Thanks Valerie, now I can see it, it is not a channel cat, back to the drawing board. I am not sure what it is. If no one else has any suggestions I will research it later.

schilbe intermedius, African catfish or mystus tengara from Asia, but think it looks more like a schilbe???? what size is it?? schilbe gets 12" or so, tengara only 3-4"

hello, Newrossman posted this for me as i was having trouble. I have these 2 catfish i got as a pair and they are breeding, so male and female. I know it is mythus, or that was what i was told they were, but i dont know whatelse they are. they are each 6 inches there about, and what keeps throwing me in their id is the long anal fin. all the mythus i have seen dont have them. I have been racking my brain for 6 months trying to find these guys. So any help you can provide would be much appreciated. I am very sorry for the pic quality, had to use daughters camera phone. will try to get better quality ones asap.

Also the other fish that showed his ugly mug in the pic is an 8inch tinfoil barb, i have to and they are driving me nuts, they actually jump in the tank and smack things, even had a mini world war II in the tank with those guys, but thats another story.

THanks
Beautythebp

How about: Schilbe intermedius? ?

When you say that they are breeding, have they produced eggs / fry or what breeding behaviour have you noticed.

Daragh

There is mystus in the Schilbe family, maybe that is where the confusion is coming from ont he mystus name??

Eggs. And alot of them. they seem to like the dark caves. they court as in swim together, in alternating circles and swiching top to bottom. and 3 weeks later i have a bunch of eggs in the cave, and the rest of the fish have a feeding frenzy.

Beautythebp

MMM.... think they seem to be the above....

Doh, sorry Seratus, I did not read that you had already posted that!! I must be losing it. I spent about an hour locating that name, when 30 sections reading the thread would have told me. Well at leat you have two opinions that agree beautythebp.

You should try and get some photos and post on planetcatfish for more info.

There is a link, in the Links section.

Daragh