Some of the pictures didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, but hopefully you can see enough. He wasn't very enthusiastic about the photo tank.

Here's a closeup of his head.



Side shot with fins.



Weird coloration showing in the flash. He's really more dark and light brown, not the apparent red color, but the pattern you can see here is real.



After one night in the tank he turned black.



Sadly he seems to have been attacked last night, and I'm pretty sure he's going to die. I found him this morning stuck to the filter intake, but still breathing. He's in quarantine now, but he has some wounds I don't think will heal. If there are any other specific shots that would help an ID, let me know and I can get them if he does end up dying. If he survives I'm not going to touch him for a couple weeks though.

I finally got a pair of sleepers. Here they are. My camera didn't quite pick it up, but they have a brilliant blue spot behind the gill cover.




The little catfish is happily still alive, but not looking any better. He's been floating head-up all day with his tail just resting on the bottom of his tub. I added half a dose of Melafix to prevent infection, since he has several open wounds. Anything else I can do for him?

No ID on the catfish?

I went back yesterday to the location in the original post just to take a look and maybe thin out the Gambusia for feeders. The water was a little higher this time, and I added two new species to the list.

This guy has a weird triangular shape to his lower jaw (viewed from underneath) and a subtle golden color to his scales that didn't really come through in the pictures. He was first seen schooling in a group over a riffle, but swimming back and forth into the large pool.





And finally, the spoils of the redneck fisherman, left on the bank to rot

For the catfish, it is definitely a bullhead, Ameiurus sp. Which one is a little more difficult. One of the photos looks like it shows the chin barbels as darkly colored. This would eliminate Yellow, which is the most common. You are totally in the wrong habitat for flat or snail and there is no obvious blotch at the base of the dorsal. So, this leaves brown or black. Neither is particularly common in the state, but the brown is nearly non-existent, so based on that along, I am guessing black bullhead, Ameiurus melas.

The next fish is a mullet, Mugil sp., either striped or white. Hard to tell which from the photo.

Thanks.

The little cat died shortly after the last photo was posted. He was pretty torn up. It seems like his barbels were fairly light in color when I found him, but his whole body turned very dark within hours of being placed in a tank with plants, so he may have just been faded from the stress of that absurd little pool.