Help me identify a fish

[k2snowboards88]

I saw it at a pet store a long time ago and i always wanted some of them. It looks like a catfish with 6(i think) long barbells. Its coloring is a light tan with dark spots all over it. It looks like leopard skin. Any ideas would be very helpfull. Thanks

 

[Dane]

if the barbells were on its nose.. it coulda been a bristlenose pleco.

 

[fishdudein]

Tough to say because from your description, there are so many possibilities. Two that come to mind first are synodontis decorus or a pimeloidella (sp?) cat, even though these two cats really look nothing alike. Any other bits of info you might be able to remember may help here...

 

[Aquamick]

What sort of size?

 

[k2snowboards88]

One other peice of information that i remember is that they're bodies looked similar to columbian sharks. A long sleek and powerfull looking body. The ones i saw were about 3 inches long, but they probalby get alot bigger.

 

[CFC]

With long whiskers the fish is likely to be either one of the Pimelodidae species or one of the Bagridae species but without a picture or very accurate description further identification is almost impossible.
I suggest going to planet catfish http/www.planetcatfish.com/core/ and searching through the catelog to see if you can identify the species.

 

[k2snowboards88]

Its too bad they moved it here, because i'm not positive it was a catfish.

 

[lady_tanksalot]

could it have been a pictus?