Has anyone tried or is anyone trying to breed the syno. Eupterus?

the petricolas wont need a cichlid host. they are just egg scatterers.

You will be able to tell by growth rates. The multis will be an inch in about a week or so. the Petricolas will take 2 months.

I have had multi fry from....Hap flamebacks, M esterae,Oto. lithobates,and Aulonocara peacocks.

there are tons of other fish in the tank. About 12 different plecos. Some cories and some baby S. petricolas.

My male ABN was wachting the eggs for about 3 days . Then today he started kicking some fry out of the cave. They are just barely fry. They are really just an egg with a tail right now. I have had them kick out eggs before but never fry.I was lucky enought to catch this and took the fry out.

Mine eat mostly NLS and seem to be fine. They also get Sonic power pellets and love them also. The NLS might get expensive if it were the only food, though.

Did anyone ever notice higher egg counts with higher temps. Mine were in about 82 and did real well. I moved them to another tank(about77) and the egg counts were smaller. I dont know if its a coincidence, or they just needed time to get comfortable in the new tank. I put the tank up to about 82-84 ...

That's outstanding. Are the fry for sale yet? Congrats.

Just strippes a peacock cichlid and got 4 Syno. Multipunctatus. One was sucking on the peacock fry. One was dead , no egg sac. @ were fine. For the record, 2 day old multipunctatus fry(still with egg sac) can eat a whole tank of 2 week old petricola fry.

nope. Just vacuuming the gravel into a bucket, then skimming the bucket carefully for eggs. I found about 30 yesterday.

I have had best success with young cichlids. When they got older, i think they catch on to the cats. A 55g has been fine for me.

Obviously the bigger the better, but i have mine in a 20 now and they are still laying eggs. They started in a 75 with many other fish, and spawned fine.

that setup is great. i have to try something like that.

i think the 40 will be ok for 5 multis. just remember they will produce lots of wastes.

You only need 1 male and 1 female. More helps but specific ratios do not matter.

i had my multi's spawn at asize of 5 inches. i think age is more important than size.(not that they arent hand in hand).

i have had mine spawn in the jar of marbles way most recommend. I have had more success vacuuming the gravel and looking thru the waste water carefully for eggs or fry. They are definately an egg scatterer. this way works for me, every third day i get 20 or so more babies out of the very crowded com...

Lots of food , clean water, must be old enough. And in my case, a two day power outage in my house helped the cause. Maybe a coincidence, but since then they lay eggs every day.

good luck.

i had multis spawn with the oto lithobates. I pulled the egss at 3-4 days. only one was hatched (a cat) and he ate the rest of the eggs in the tumbler.

the petricolas are in a crowded 75 with 7-7inch multipunctatus, various large cichlids and some cory cats.

in the past the jars of marble method has worked for me in the spawning of syno petricola. Recently the jars have all been empty but...i have been doing gravel vacuuming every day of 5 gallons into bucket. Every day i find various eggs/fry in the buckets. The hardest part to believe is with the petr...

if you wait 3 days, the cat eggs will have hatched. the cichlid eggs usually take 6-10 days.

i have had spawnings with met. zebra, hap sp. flamebacks and oto lithobates.

My cats did it exactly the way people recommend. The bowl of marbles under the flower pot was pulled yesterday and there are fry and eggs in the bowl.

they are doing fine.they have spawned 3 times since the initial.I only got 2 fry each time since the first time.

hi ,first post here. My S.Multipunctatus spawned last week with Hap.sp.Flamebacks. I stripped the one female and got 10 fry. Iwatched the spawn take place 6 days earlier.