Please ID my new catfish

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It was sold to me as a Albino Burmese catfish or albino walking catfish. I am thinking it is a Albino Asian RedTail or a channel. Give me a ID please.

Subject: Re: Please ID my new catfish Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:50 pm

Looks like an albino channel cat to me...
http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Catfis11.jpg

Subject: Re: Please ID my new catfish Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:52 pm

Another monster....? I agree does look to be an albino Channel cat...they will get 2-3 feet.

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Mostlycichlids wrote:: Another monster....?

going in the pond Laughing

Subject: Re: Please ID my new catfish Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:21 pm

It is a cool looking fish.

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

Thank god. It's just an albino channel cat. I hope you didn't pay more than a few bucks for it.

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saint_felony wrote:: Thank god. It's just an albino channel cat. I hope you didn't pay more than a few bucks for it.

WOW a channel cat! I paid 20 bucks for him/

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

Wait for Wyite for sure, but that's lookin' channel cat to me. Channels down here are super *cheap* That one would be something around 2 to 3 bucks.

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saint_felony wrote:: Wait for Wyite for sure, but that's lookin' channel cat to me. Channels down here are super *cheap* That one would be something around 2 to 3 bucks.

WOW thats really cheap. How come there so cheap?

Subject: Re: Please ID my new catfish Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:24 pm

channel cat.

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

The fish farm guys breed 'em for townships and stuff to stock their ponds with so other people can go fishing. They're dirt common and breed like mad if the giant tubs up there are any indication.

Retail price from them for a 2 to 4 inch channel is a buck.

The big boys they sell go for something like 3 or 4 bucks a pound, which I think they said is something like a foot long.

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saint_felony wrote:: The fish farm guys breed 'em for townships and stuff to stock their ponds with so other people can go fishing. They're dirt common and breed like mad if the giant tubs up there are any indication.

Retail price from them for a 2 to 4 inch channel is a buck.

The big boys they sell go for something like 3 or 4 bucks a pound, which I think they said is something like a foot long.

Wow thats wicked cheap, where is this place??

Subject: Re: Please ID my new catfish Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:52 pm

Pretty sure it’s a bagrid and not a channel cat (ictalurid). The nasal barbels are too long, the maxillary barbels appear superior rather than inferior (ictalurids usually have inferior maxillary barbels drooping over the corners of the mouth), the dorsal fin has 8 rays (IIRC, most ictalurids have 6), the anal fin starts farther behind the pelvic fins than in I. punctatus (or the majority of ictalurids, for that matter), and the caudal fin is forked all the way to the caudal peduncle (IIRC, no ictalurid has a caudal fin that severely forked). Pimelodids only have three pairs of barbels, lacking nasal barbels. Bagrid of the genus Mystus or Hemibagrus would be my guess.

I can get ya that far without diggin’ further. Give me a day or two and I may be able to narrow it down to a species.

WYite

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Wyomingite wrote:: Pretty sure it’s a bagrid and not a channel cat (ictalurid). The nasal barbels are too long, the maxillary barbels appear superior rather than inferior (ictalurids usually have inferior maxillary barbels drooping over the corners of the mouth), the dorsal fin has 8 rays (IIRC, most ictalurids have 6), the anal fin starts farther behind the pelvic fins than in I. punctatus (or the majority of ictalurids, for that matter), and the caudal fin is forked all the way to the caudal peduncle (IIRC, no ictalurid has a caudal fin that severely forked). Pimelodids only have three pairs of barbels, lacking nasal barbels. Bagrid of the genus Mystus or Hemibagrus would be my guess.

I can get ya that far without diggin’ further. Give me a day or two and I may be able to narrow it down to a species.

WYite

Ok thanks I'll wait for some correct info.

Subject: Re: Please ID my new catfish Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:41 pm

albino Hemibagrus nemerus

Second pic down on the page. Does your fish have the dark edge on the adipose fin? Looks like it to me from the photos.

WYite

Subject: Re: Please ID my new catfish Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:42 pm

Silver Dollar dude wrote:

Wyomingite wrote:: Pretty sure it’s a bagrid and not a channel cat (ictalurid). The nasal barbels are too long, the maxillary barbels appear superior rather than inferior (ictalurids usually have inferior maxillary barbels drooping over the corners of the mouth), the dorsal fin has 8 rays (IIRC, most ictalurids have 6), the anal fin starts farther behind the pelvic fins than in I. punctatus (or the majority of ictalurids, for that matter), and the caudal fin is forked all the way to the caudal peduncle (IIRC, no ictalurid has a caudal fin that severely forked). Pimelodids only have three pairs of barbels, lacking nasal barbels. Bagrid of the genus Mystus or Hemibagrus would be my guess.

I can get ya that far without diggin’ further. Give me a day or two and I may be able to narrow it down to a species.

WYite

Ok thanks I'll wait for some correct info.

Did you read what he posted dude?....It is pretty correct and gives you a very good starting point

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

Damn Ivan, remind me to never play the id a fish game against you. Wink

Looking at the photos you found it does look like it.

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Wyomingite wrote:: albino Hemibagrus nemerus

Second pic down on the page. Does your fish have the dark edge on the adipose fin? Looks like it to me from the photos.

WYite

Yes he has a dark adipose fin. Thanks for the link I am going to view it.