Synodontis decorus pics...

[Seedy]

Sorry about the quality...it's a camera phone....

Vids...
http://www.cichlidgallery.com/albums/album35/62104361861_G.mov

Dorsal trailer...
http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2005-05-08/99665-001.jpg

http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2005-05-08/99665-002.jpg

http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2005-05-08/99665-003.jpg

http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2005-05-08/99665-004.jpg

[Heyguy74]

Cool loking cat. How many do you have?

[Seedy]

Three S. decorus...the one in the pics is the biggest...

[Seedy]

Got another one.....

http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2005-11-13/119358-001.jpg

[Seedy]

New pics of the elusive beast!

http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2006-02-22/131338-001.jpg

http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2006-02-22/131338-002.jpg

http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2006-02-22/131338-003.jpg

[fire mouth man]

how bug is it.By the way great pic of it digging. :D

[Seedy]

He's probably up to 8-10 inches now...

[heavy_t]

I just bought one of them. Not knowing a lot about catfish I asked for some advice in the shop and bought it as I was told it would get 6-8" I get home and do my research and find it's going to get to 12" :twisted:

Oh well, it is a cool fish. I haven't found it to be shy at all. It is VERY greedy though

[Seedy]

Here's a nother pic I caught of him....It shows how long his dorsal filament is.

http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2006-04-17/138985-001.jpg

[Seedy]

http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2006-04-17/138986-001.jpg

[fire mouth man]

sweet pics.your pretty good with a camera phone!!!!!

[jchandler50]

seedy whats your magic trick for all of those great pictures, I use a digi cam and still end up with blury photos or reflections, on rare occasion i'll snap a decent shot but usually get frustrated before i end up with anything decent.

[Seedy]

Ok...the new pics are not camera phone...I've gotten a lot of help from Glaive, Finz and others in the photography forum here that have improved my skills (and I've gotten lucky) :)...

Lately, I've been setting the focus on the camera manually and have been using a flash at an angle to the tank to minimize glare....I also burn through a memory stick or two just to get a few good images...I'd like to get a remote flash to set above the tank, but just haven't been able to get it worked into the budget...pluss, I think I need to take some classes/and or read a book about basic photography techniques, as I am not extremely knowledgeable on the subject. I credit the afordability and availability of digital camera equipment that just a few years ago would have been "professional" high end quality.... and the inexpensiveness "per image" of digital media...

[bloogle18]

very nice cat

[dufus]

how much was he?>

[Seedy]

Originally posted by dufus
how much was he?>

I think I only paid about $8 USD for him....The store had 3 of them for quite a while, asking more than $20 each...I quitely watched as they started discounting their more expensive fish, until I just couldn't resist any more...I ended up getting all three of them...I traded two away and still have this one.

[guy mcbee]

Great pics I was looking for a synodonis cat for my african tank but there are so many species of syno,yours looks great.Have you seen a syno angelicus,they have a cool look too.I saw some like yours today at the fish store but I think they were too small for my tank.I don`t want them to take a beating.