Did you know fantastic help is an anagram of Planet Catfish? This forum is for those of you with pictures of your catfish who are looking for help identifying them. There are many here to help and a firm ID is the first step towards keeping your catfish in the best conditions.
Not an easy one to ID, so I thought I would post it here. It was being sold as L140, but then I think that is most likely a case of "open DATZ and pick a number" irrespective of locality information etc.
I guess it's really up to someone keeping an indetifical fish with more informtiaon to ID this one. All comments welocme but I'm not going to put the picture in the cat-elog unless we can ID it.
I also agree that the fish must be placed under Panaque Maccus complex form.
I have recently seen similar speciments imported to greece but in juvenile age.
I have 1 male in a group I purchased as Panaque maccus that looks exactly like the fish in the pic. The others all match the pics in the Cat-E-log for P. maccus including the other male.
This probably requires another thread but what are the characteristics that best distinguish the 2? I find P. maccus to be quite variable...
EDIT: After having a look I would say the "LDA68" has a bulkier body, a longer snout, larger eyes and the marble pattern over it whole body. The pattern is especially pronounced on the head because the P. maccus have straight stripes running vertical down the snout, when viewed head on.
Shaun
