Which Synos do you keep

[JustRon]

I have a few catfish. I was

just wondernig if anyone else is keeping them. Also, is anyone breeding them?

[Lisachromis]

S. multipunctatus and S.

petricola are my only Synos right now. I have some South Americas catfish, but they don't fit

this topic.

[Orbital]

I have Petricola,

Multipunctatus, Angelicus, and some Lace. I would like to give breeding the Multipunctatus and

Petricola a shot eventually. They should both be to breeding size, or real close now. I need to

find more female Multis though, I think I only have one or two.

[bobrfish]

Local fish keeper has

breed many cats including S. petricola and S. multipunctatus. His current idea is to place a

number of egg laying arrangements in a tank. He then attempts to get S. petricola to breed in tank

whilst also keeping S. contractus or similar small Syno in same tank.

As of mid

November, there has been no success.

[Barbie]

<span

style="color:purple">I know this post is old, but I currently keep S. lucipinnis

(formerly dwarf petricola), petricola, and multipunctatus. I've had good luck spawning both

the dwarfs and the multis. I really enjoy a large group of Synos bobbing in and out of the

rockwork in the 180 gallon full of Labs and Peacocks. It makes for a great display.

Barbie</span>

[fishmaven]

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This is actually one of those timeless threads that never loses

impact. Thanks for bringing it back to life. Dan

[tjudy]

So haw can I tell if I have the

dwarf 'petricola' or the regular petricola? They are close to two years old and still at

or under three inches and just started spawning regularly last month.

The only other

Mochidae (spelling?) that I am working with is Microsynodontis chrystii, which I am trying to see

if they will spawn like the petricola do. They like tight dark places adn the females are gravis

all the time.

[fishmaven]

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></a></div><div class='quotemain'>So haw can I tell if I have the dwarf

'petricola' or the regular petricola? They are close to two years old and still at or

under three inches and just started spawning regularly last month.
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I did a Google search on "petricola vs dwarf petricola". One of the

things to pop up was a link to a discussion on duboisi.com discussing Syn Lucipiinis (species new

to me) vs petricola. You might want to read it. The discuusion somewhat mirrored discussion on

angelicus vs angelicus zonatus. I remember that it took me seeming ages to determine the difference

between multipunctatus and petricola.

Ask Barbie how she does it.

Sorry, for

some reason I was unable to capture the link. Dan

[Lisachromis]

Here's the basic info

I gleaned from http://www.duboisi.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4134

lucipinnis -

uneven pattern of large & small spots (broken up all over the body)
true petricola -even

pattern of small spots or large spots. (possibly more in lines)

There is supposedly a

body shape difference, but I didn't see anyone mention how they were different. Petricolas also

grow a bit larger than lucipinnis

Makes me wonder wonder what my lone

'petricola' really is.

[Barbie]

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class='quotemain'>Here's the basic info I gleaned from http://www.duboisi.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4134

lucipinnis -

uneven pattern of large & small spots (broken up all over the body)
true petricola -even

pattern of small spots or large spots. (possibly more in lines)

There is supposedly a

body shape difference, but I didn't see anyone mention how they were different. Petricolas also

grow a bit larger than lucipinnis

Makes me wonder wonder what my lone

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><span style="color:purple">Sorry for the late reply!

S. lucipinnis

are going to be quite a bit smaller than S. petricola. S. petricola are also not regularly spawned

in aquariums, so it easily narrows down which you have, if you know it was tank raised style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif. It takes 3 or 4 years for the S. lucipinnis to finish growing out, but they

definitely mature to a much smaller size than the true S. petricola. I used a bowl of marbles with

a cave cover for spawning S. lucipinnis with great success. The eggs are TINY, and so are the fry,

but with attention to detail that first two weeks, they can definitely start tackling bbs quickly

and then it's all just time getting them grown out to a sellable size.

I meant to

mention that I also keep Phyllonemus typus, a fantastic little biparental mouthbrooding catfish. I

also managed to purchase Lophiobagrus cyclurus this past year that I intend to try to work with

when I can find some spare time. (anyone have any for sale? I haven't seen any in so long

I'm not sure I'm going to recognize it! style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif )

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