Become a Sponsor

Home
Information Pages:
Freshwater Aquarium
Articles/ FAQs
(enter words you'd like highlighted in this page)
Marine Aquarium
Articles/ FAQs
Planted Aquarium
Articles/ FAQs
Brackish Systems
Articles/ FAQs
Popular Pages:
Features:
FW Daily FAQs
SW Pix of the Day
FW Pix of the Day
New On WWM
Hobbyist Forum bb.WetWebMedia
Ask the WWM Crew a Question
Calendars
Search Feature
Admin Index
Cover Images



FAQs on Pimelodid Catfish Identification

Related Articles: Pimelodid Catfishes

Related FAQs: Pimelodid Catfishes 1, Pimelodid Cats 2, & FAQs on: Pimelodid Behavior, Pimelodid Compatibility, Pimelodid Selection, Pimelodid Systems, Pimelodid Feeding, Pimelodid Disease, Pimelodid Reproduction, & Red Tail Cats (Phractocephalus), Pictus Cats, Shovelnose Catfishes (Pseudoplatystoma, Sorubim, Sorubimichthys...), & Catfish FAQs: Identification, Behavior, Compatibility, Selection, Systems, Feeding, Disease, Reproduction

 

Unable to identify fish.   1/4/09
Hello Crew,
First of all let me say thank you to all of you who have answered my questions in the past all information has been very useful. But on to the problem at hand, my friend has a fish that I keep trying to identify. So far I have tried to search the web and a lot of other sites without success. Sadly I do not have a picture of the fish only a description. I have seen a picture of a red tailed catfish and it looks a lot like that. There are a few differences though, its nose is a lot longer and flatter. It is also white with a lot of dark spots, and she found out the hard way that it eats other fish. It pretty much decimated the fish population of her tank, consuming two of what she called a Florida knife fish which is about twice as longer as it was. It also has a long body of a fish, the best i can say is that it reminds me of a alligator or crocodile in fish form. Do you guys have any idea of what it could be, we really want to put a name to this terror but can't. Oh, almost forgot it is in a freshwater tank that is heated and is about 5-6 inches long and thin. Well thanks for all of your help and I hope you may be able to give it a name for us.
<Likely a Pimelodid... my guess is on Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum... read here: http://wetwebmedia.com/FWSubWebIndex/pimelodids.htm
Bob Fenner>

Re: Unable to identify fish. 1/4/08
"<Likely a Pimelodid... my guess is on Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum... read here: http://wetwebmedia.com/FWSubWebIndex/pimelodids.htm
Bob Fenner>"
Hello Again, I have identified the " unidentified fish", or so i believe. I think it is a tiger catfish thanks so much.
<Ahh, welcome. BobF>

Pimelodid Cats
One other question and I promise I leave you in peace.. Whats a pimellid catfish?? I have two pictus catfish (dot and spot) that I've had for over a year <that's them... Pimelodus pictus (the scientific name)>
and they are about 3-4 in the white fin shark I've had a little longer than the two pictus catfish and he is about 6 in in length.. Just curious.. The pictus I did research and read they would get up to 5-6 in. They love blood worms and strangely enough love the Plecos algae tablets..
<and they will eat small live fish, including goldfish when the cats are big enough!>
All of the fish I have now, I've had for 8 mo.s to a year and a half except the barbs and the Severum.. I may end up having to give my Severum to a friend of mine that has a 55 gal cichlid tank if he starts getting too big..
<agreed>
<best of luck, Anthony>






Featured Sponsors:
Google
 
Web www.WetWebMedia.com