Microsynodontis breeding

[scientist0724, posts: 17]

I recently acquired a group of 10 Microsynodontis sp. "Bumblebee" from a group buy and would love to breed them. I have not been able to find any info about their breeding behavior or any successful captive breeding.

Can I assume that I should use marbles like the larger cousins like petricolas or lucipinnis in a breeding "cave" ie an inverted slotted flowerpot?

Arlene

[corybreed]

To my knowledge there are no records of any captive spawnings of any of the Microsynodontis. I now have a group of 40 that came in from Nigeria. Hopefully someone will be the first to spawn these fish. I have friends who have kept Microsynodontis for years without observing any spawning activity. You need to experiment to find out what will trigger them to spawn.

Best of luck.
Mark

[Birger]

My opinion is not too many Synodontis or their relatives will breed in these egg traps you mention...mainly a Tanganyikan Syno thing.


To start you quite likely have what we call here Microsynodontis sp(1) an undescribed species...a photo would help to ID correctly.
I have worked a wee bit with these myself, just reorganizing a few tanks for these as well as similar for M.polli(thanks to Jools) and Mochokiella paynei(thanks to Mark).


It is just a theory of mine but I think treat these and any small cousin more as if spawning cory's or killifish...using spawning mops, live plants with root systems(anubias) that sort of thing...I think a big problem with these is there appetite and ability to hunt down the eggs. An egg laden female carries large eggs for a fish this size...many egg scatterers have much smaller eggs.

here is a former post...

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=25626

Birger

[scientist0724, posts: 17]

Thanks for the info Birger. I think that I'll try to make some breeding mops with Fissidens and Java mosses.

Wish me luck.

Arlene

[Jeffww, posts: 6]

I've just gotten some Microsynodontis sp. (1) which were labeled as M. polli. I saw seomeone in the cat e log had eggs but no resulting fish from them. They spawned amongst the roots of anubias.

[Vess, posts: 24]

I've just gotten some Microsynodontis sp. (1) which were labeled as M. polli. I saw seomeone in the cat e log had eggs but no resulting fish from them. They spawned amongst the roots of anubias.

I have polli also, not even a sniff of breeding....

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