Baby Whales

[JohnDyer]

I've noticed something called a baby whale in my LFS. It's terribly ugly (in my opinion), and fairly expensive too. What exactly is it? Google isn't helping, I'm getting 5 or 6 quite different looking fish. The one I saw looked something like this:

 

[Joanne_]

Well, I've never seen that fish before, I like it except after reading about it ... it's not a very good community fish.

Also known as Baby Whale Catfish, Blue Shark Catfish, Blue Torpedo Catfish, Blue Whale Catfish, Cetopsis coecutiens.

Here is a link: Baby Whale Catfish

 

[thereverendturtle]

That's an amazonian catfish that lives in schools and is a scavenger of dead animals. Look at clips of it on river monsters on animal planet.
True baby whales are mormyrids, related to elephant nose fish.