unknown catfish

[lil wolf]

Could somebody help me identify a catfish that I just bought. The store said it was a pectus cat, but it looks nothing like them. It looks like a shiny bronze, brown, or copper color. It's belly is alittle lighter. I've looked on the internet and I can't seem to find it. If anybody has any info, it would be greatly apprecated

[fishbooger]

How big is it? Is it solid? No dots, stripes, patterns? Shiny, as in irridescent? Need more info, but it may be a columbian shark. Although I don't believe they're bronze/brown, more silver. Or it could be an emerald corycat. They're supposed to be green, but I suppose in certain lighting it could look coppery. Give more info. What's its shape? Pointy head? whiskers? flat head? pencil body? bullet body? Good luck!

[lil wolf]

He's a little over three inches, no markings on his body or fins what-so-ever,his tail fin is shaped kinda like a bala sharks,his nose is kinda flat but not long like a shovel nose, he has 2 long whiskers on his top lip and 4 short ones under his mouth, he is very fast and shimmies across the top of the water, sometimes even raising his whole head out of the water.very active.

[AngelMom]

Have you checked on Planet Catfish (http://www.planetcatfish.com) yet?

The fish FB was talking about is here: Columbian Shark (http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=700) I'm thinking the same thing after seeing your revised description.

[fishbooger]

BTW if your bio is correct(with all those cats, parrot n convict) and you have 3 of these uknown catfish (all the same I presume) you will want a bigger tank eventually...if they turn out to be columbian sharks. They can grow up to 12". How long have you had your tank? Good luck!