New fish we just picked up

[Fishman Dave]

Have not posted on this thread for some time so will have to check if I have photos of some of my new fish, however……..
Had a credit note for baby bristlenose and saw what I considered a real bargain!

Baby Pictus cats.
Now there usually anything between £12 - £16 each here around leeds in the UK but these 4 cost me £24. Yep, £6 each.

What’s the catch I hear you ask.

They are tiny, 2” tip to tip small, so small they don’t have all their spots yet, heck they don’t have room for spots. So I cannot tell which variant they are, but that doesn’t bother me.
Wanted them for the living room display tank, hence only getting 4, but really like their baby charm.

 

[Fishman Dave]

Love the colours these have now as they get bigger.
All four are showing striping as well as spots.
Both a nice lateral line stripe but also an interesting diagonal stripe a bit like a bolt cat. Whilst I know it’s common, most of my previous ones were much more just spotted.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

A but different looking ones it seems, with muddled spots and lines of fused spots or stripes. Might the light-colored substrate be a factor?
Overall resemble the Colombian garden variety.
The diagonal stripe aka saddle stripe/mark can be seen in other Pimelodus, like the ornatus, and other Pimelodidae too, most obvious are Leiarius pictus, bolt, pati, if memory serves.