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Article © Paul E. Turley[1], uploaded January 01, 2002.

Originally published in Aqua News, a publication of the Minnesota Aquarium Society, May/June 1998 issue.

I received a call one afternoon from a local fish store. The girl on the phone had a couple of questions regarding some of the catfish on her importing list and she wondered if I had any information on several that she was not familiar with. One of these was Sturisomatichthys leightoni. At first, the name rang a bell but I couldnt quite put my finger on it. So I scrambled through my catfish books trying to find a good reference. After locating pictures of a male guarding a spawn of eggs taken by Dr Foersche, and a brief description in David Sand’s book Catfish of the World, Volume 4[2], I quickly asked, "How much will they be?" Then, after a price was presented and I made a few quick phone calls to some friends and few other people I knew would be interested, I quickly ordered thirty or so, enough for each of u...