Banjo cat?

[Sean_Buckley]

OK, so one of my LFS's has a fish labelled 'Sucker fish', but to me it looks like a Banjo catfish. Its head is quite wide, when it skims the glass and stuff, you can see its pectorals out like wings, and on its sides and back, from the head to the caudal peduncle, there are little spines. Is this a Banjo, and if it is, should I get it? I will do some reading on them, but I want to know if this sounds like a Banjo.
Sean

 

[Oddball]

It Sounds like a banjo OR it may be a member of the dora family as i'be never experienced banjos glass skiming.......

 

[Fishy411]

i may be wrong but it sounds a little like a raphael

 

[Dwarfs]

Does it look like this? (Rafael cat)

Or more like this? (Banjo)

 

[Fishy411]

they do look similiar. Is it possible that what u see is a color morph or something of a raphael

 

[Dwarfs]

Rafaels are black with stripes or with spots, I have never seen a brown one

 

[Dwarfs]

Rafaels are black with stripes or with spots, I have never seen a brown one

 

[Fishy411]

just wondering. There are striped ones. They are also known as chocolate catfish so i thought there might be a color morph

 

[Sean_Buckley]

Judging by the pics here, I think it is a Raphael cat. Does anyone here have any experience with these? I guess I will Google these as well!
Sean

 

[Fishy411]

i have one. They generally dont come out much. Mine will do anything for some pellet food.

 

[Dwarfs]

Judging by the pics here, I think it is a Raphael cat. Does anyone here have any experience with these? I guess I will Google these as well!
Sean

They eat carnivore pellets, and will almost never come out in daylight (or tanklight for that matter I think of them as extra ammonia build-up I've heard that they won't be as timid if they are kept in groups of three, but having no experience with trying three I honestly do not know They will eat small fish and get from 6-8 inches in length

 

[Sean_Buckley]

Would they be OK in a 33 gallon planted tank? They wont eat adult cories, will they?
Sean

 

[Dwarfs]

I don't know, I usually don't keep cories with any fish over 5", but that's just me I know plenty of people who have them though, stingraykid, the minions, and samsung401 off the top of my head, you could probably ask them for some help

 

[aloaring]

No they won't eat cories and the striped rapheal are usually a brown colour but there is also a marbled version. But as dwarfs pointed out you won't see much of them but you might hear them grunt as they are also known as the talking catfish!

 

[Oddball]

Odd, ive always known these critters as doras............................