You may have yours in good conditions and they have developed faster than most, but what I think is in many fish the males are ready to go before the females which often take longer to develop, your more mature fish could be a female.

Birger

Hi Birger, thanks again for responding. I do like to ...

At feeding time today a holding yellow lab seemed to decide it'd had enough of going without food, and attempted to ingest some NLS pellets. It then suddenly looked as if it was about to upchuck, and before my eyes BLAAAAGHH! out plops the fattest lone little Synodontis fry I've seen!

A (mediocre ...

Sorry for carrying on, but I just need to get closure on this... I'm starting to suspect a pale I used to fill the temporary tank.

There is a ci ch lid (hey what's wrong with that word anyways?) that I am treating for bloat that was coming around nicely - when I used the same pale today to do a ...

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Well, I think I can safely say the 4th adult has made it at least <golf claps>, it's reflexes and activity level are good, and it actively looks for food and eats.

I've also determined amonia may well not have been the culprit - I was using an old and nearly empty test kit I've since ...

Kind words... thanks.

Three of the w/c adults are gone, but the fourth appears to have a fighting chance. I've removed the bodies of six of the affected juvies as well, and I'm assuming the seventh is a goner also though I haven't found it yet (probably scavenged).

Five of the healthy ones I have ...

Well, this has taken a turn for the ugly! One of the most embarassing moments in my fishkeeping history in fact... The temporary tank (18g) I moved the four w/c adults to along with seven 3/4" juvies I netted out at the same time aparently was a problem; this is a tank I have used regularly as a ...

No, I haven't seen Wright & Page's paper...

Here is the best pic I have taken yet showing barbels - this shot is of a younger fish though, around 2" - 2.5". Hard to be 100% sure from the pic, but I think I just make out 5, on the near side at least.

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q161 ...

Hi Birger, thanks for the reply.

All four are around the 4.25" - 4.5" mark. Given that they've been breeding for about 18 mths now and I got them over two years ago at pretty much that size as wild-caught adults it's a good bet they're just about as big as they're going to get - which I suppose may ...

Hi folks, first post here. I've had four wild-caught Synodontis for a few years, imported and sold as multipunctatus. I've learned during this time about the common confusion between them and the recently described S. grandiops species, and have tried inconclusively on several occasions to determine ...