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wednesday13 wednesday13 thebiggerthebetter thebiggerthebetter This is an Albino Mytsus sp. that fisherman have just caught right out of the river.... Have you guys ever seen one of these with it's albino mutation?
You have me stumped, I need to see the whiskers, it does look a little thick for a artc, head a little flatter, but the adipose fin is different from normal wyckii though could just be the genetics. It protrudes like an artc ( hemibagrus wyckioides), where as a wyckii kind of doesn't go passed the back instead it kind of converges with it, a quick Google Image search of the two will show you what I mean. It's definitely not the albino "artc" (hemibagrus nemurus) because they don't grow past a foot and the body is different imo. Can you post a picture with the whiskers extended, then I can tell you for sure. Unless like TBTB said, it's a new species. As for keeping it with other fish, they're known to do fine with others in a tank above 600 if a wyckii, they only cover the bottom area for territory, theyre made out to be worse some who have kept them have said. People who have kept both wyckii and wyckioides say the latter is the one to watch out for. It is known and ime as well, to dominate all ranges of its tank top, middle, and bottom, is more active than wyckii and grows larger taking up a bigger amount of territory. If it's a wyckii I think you'll be fine keeping it with others unless you get a particularly mean one, if it's wyckioides however, good luck and share your experience here ;). I've never seen a true albino artc, might've seen a wyckii once can't remember clearly.

As for the vulture, it looks beautiful, kind of reminds me of Stewart little lol, got some nice pick ups there!
 
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Based off of that I'd say wyckii, but the whiskers seem even shorter, wyckii whiskers reach towards the end of the dorsal where as wyckioides reaches down most of their body to the adipose maybe further. What if you have a newly described species lol that'd be cool. It's cool to think it survived thus far being albino in the wild.
 
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Out of the former three species, this one definitely looks like wyckii, no question in my mind.

Not too certain of the albino - the eyes appear not to be red but not easy to tell.

Very highly remarkable even though the rivers they live in are totally muddy.
 
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Out of the former three species, this one definitely looks like wyckii, no question in my mind.

Not too certain of the albino - the eyes appear not to be red but not easy to tell.

Very highly remarkable even though the rivers they live in are totally muddy.
Albino or leucistic, it's a nice and rare specimen
 
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Out of the former three species, this one definitely looks like wyckii, no question in my mind.

Not too certain of the albino - the eyes appear not to be red but not easy to tell.

Very highly remarkable even though the rivers they live in are totally muddy.
In the first video.. the eyes appear much more red, even at different angles. But yes I agree with you Viktor, this one should be a wyckii. I will ask for a better video and hopefully I will get one today.
 
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In the first video.. the eyes appear much more red, even at different angles. But yes I agree with you Viktor, this one should be a wyckii. I will ask for a better video and hopefully I will get one today.
I'm hoping. You buy it lol you'll have another dream fish of mine
 
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