A little help?

[WhistlingBadger]

Hi, all. I recently came across a fish I wanted to try (or at least further investigate) in a nano tank. It was a tiny catfish of some sort, it was silver (not Hara jerdoni), and it was from Asia. Unfortunately, what with huge life events going on (really) and my brain not being quite as young as it once was, I can't for the life of me remember what it was. I think it had some sort of cute-ish name, like fairy catfish, but it wasn't that; those are from the Amazon.

Anybody want to help me retrieve the file from memory?

 

[itiwhetu]

not the Feather beard catfish by any chance

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Nope, not that.

not the Feather beard catfish by any chance

 

[HoldenOn]

Couldn't find anything but a pictus, and I'm assuming that's not it.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Couldn't find anything but a pictus, and I'm assuming that's not it.

No, it was nothing that well-known, and it wasn't from south America.

 

[AtomicFish]

hmm your killing me smalls. it would help if there was a picture of it.

 

[Barry Tetra]

Obokun catfish?

 

[itiwhetu]

Dwarf Habrosus Cory just a thought, we will get there!!

 

[kwi]

Asian Stone catfish?
Mostly see them brown but have seen a few pictures in silver.
Edit: You've already discounted these.......sorry.

 

[Naughts]

Not tiny but Asian with a cute name...

Pseudomystus siamensis (Asian Bumblebee Catfish) — Seriously Fish

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[itiwhetu]

Pseudomystus siamensis (Asian Bumblebee Catfish) — Seriously Fish

www.seriouslyfish.com

Do you know how mean these suckers are. I had a friend who had one, it would eat a neon every other night. He treated the tank as a fast food restaurant, thinking nobody would notice. I haven't seen one for years. Should go on to " fish you don't see anymore "

 

[Naughts]

Do you know how mean these suckers are. I had a friend who had one, it would eat a neon every other night. He treated the tank as a fast food restaurant, thinking nobody would notice. I haven't seen one for years. Should go on to " fish you don't see anymore "

Ha ha, neons+predator=fat predator.

 

[Ch4rlie]

There are Fairy Coryadora though-

Corydoras atropersonatus – Fairy Cory — Seriously Fish

www.seriouslyfish.com

 

[kwi]

Micronemacheilus cruciatus (Yunnanilus cruciatus, Nemacheilus cruciatus) — Seriously Fish

www.seriouslyfish.com

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Thanks for trying to help, everybody. It wasn't a cory (from Asia, remember?) or a stone cat (though I've kept those and I love them!). It was shaped more like something in the mystus genus (not bimaculatus, though again I've kept those and love them). It was silvery colored, very small.

Not a loach, either. However:

Micronemacheilus cruciatus (Yunnanilus cruciatus, Nemacheilus cruciatus) — Seriously Fish

www.seriouslyfish.com

That isn't the one I was thinking of, but I was looking at that one earlier. There are actually several dwarf loaches that are interesting, but they don't seem to be for sale anywhere, and a collection field trip to Sumatra is cost-prohibitive. Check these out:

Nemacheilus selangoricus (Nemacheilus kuiperi, Noemacheilus translineatus) — Seriously Fish

www.seriouslyfish.com

Kottelatlimia hipporhynchos — Seriously Fish

www.seriouslyfish.com

I'd be happy with either of those, if anybody sold them.