... unhappy just nocturnal by nature I have posted pics of my syno tank petricola,lucipinnis DSCN0733 (1).JPG DSCN0740 (1).JPG DSCN0738 (1).JPG top pic ... and there's a petricola juvy swimming with one of the adults, they spawned without my knowing, if your looking for activity you could try guppies ...

i have a problem with some S. Petricola. They are very old (17 years, at least ) but they have never done this before
They have taken to swimming at ... and I have had no problems with them for all of this time and they have spawned literally dozens of times
At first I thought maybe an ammonia spike as ...

... years ago and i still have the same colony, they are just really old and have turned almost completely to a dark brown that's almost black. they spawned regularly until maybe 5 years ago. they are in a 150 gallon community tank and at this point they have stopped spawning and i still have 5 from ...

Hi HelloFresh,

Welcome to PlanetCatfish!

As to your question, have you searched the forum here for past experiences? If not, check out the old posts listed here: search.php?keywords=petricola+spawned&fid%5B0%5D=8

Good luck!
Eric

Do you think they could be spawned in a similar manner as lucipinnis/petricola?

... wholesalers, NHA (Neil Hardy Aquatica) in the UK where they have spawned granulosus & petricola and numerous hybrids without using hormones.

Essentially they have 3 tanks:
1 contains only males
1 contains only females
the last one is a dedicated breeding setup.

Each tank is condtioned over a ...

... Cat-eLog does it still say
"Breeding Because of the similarity with S. lucipinnis, it is unclear if this species is the one many aquarists have spawned."?

Does need to be upgraded, I could change the wording here, give me a couple days or give it a shot give me a paragraph I can work with b-) I ...

Are there any photos of young S.petricola I can compare the shop ones to?

Why in the Cat-eLog does it still say
"Breeding Because of the similarity with S. lucipinnis, it is unclear if this species is the one many aquarists have spawned."?

All the best James

... kudos to them for not mixing species)and were possibly used with the petricola as well.

@RichardB will probably know whether or not I am correct with this.

I do not doubt though that they can be spawned, it is just a matter of making sure you have actual Synodontis petricola

Birger

... luci's to compare with.

If I remember correctly the spawnings of true petricola that Richard B mentions is the only "for sure" spawning of petricola that we know of, at least no one has stepped up with positively ID'd fish that have been spawned.

So I hope that it also will work out for yourself ...

I don't know about true petricola because I've only spawned lucipinnis. However, my best hatches came after I started using a fungus inhibitor. Initially, hatches were very small with only a couple dozen surviving. Once I started pulling the eggs, bowl, rocks etc. to a separate tank dosed with Methylene ...

Lucipinnis are pretty easy and lot's of info exists on this. (Petricola are a little bit harder and if you know a breeder they often turn out to be ... knowledge and mine are certainly not playing ball!!!

Nigriventris have spawned on occasion & would be a good choice of riverine species to attempt ...

... juveniles to my group, but they take a long time to mature.

Would you just buy the female and the unsexed juveniles? Or will the 3m:1f and a bunch of babies get along OK?

My former group spawned regularly in my 75G African tank (small, peaceful haps and peacocks)...I think I had 3m:2f before.

... which might also trigger breeding. perhaps a PH change on one attempt? This is how petricola & granulosa are spawned by a UK importer/wholesaler.

... just fine, without any hormones

Synodontis lucipinnis
synodontis petricola
Synodontis sp "polli White"
Synodontis multipunctata
Synodontis ... Synodontis granulosus
Synodontis schoutedeni

adding those who have spawned without hormones but no viable offspring or at least only rumours ...

All spawning vids of petricola on youtube are actually Lucipinnis.

There are some vids of petricola, but no spawning ones.

Petricola are spawned by NHA on a reasonable scale but most hobbyists who are breeding & advertising tank raised petricola actually have lucipinnis - there are a few exceptions ...

My Syno Petricola have spawned and I have wigglers. What to do next? I have Decapped Brine shrimp eggs but when do I start feeding them. I can see them swimming around look like sperm. This is my first petro spawn and I would like to keep some. Any and all tips welcomed.

... there are a few points to clarify:

These fish have apparently been spawned in the aquarium before but using the cuckoo method and with small ... does this fish use as a spawning method in the wild,
This Synodontis petricola and the similar looking Synodontis lucipinnis which were thought to be ...

i wil tell how to take care of petricola fishes at home
his tank was furnished with tufa rock and sand filtered by a Fluval 403 filled with perlag to ... above the waterline.

Afterthought : These fish have apparently been spawned in the aquarium before but using the cuckoo method and with small ...

... here as well :D )

Here are my 4 luccipinnis (orginially bought as petricola)

should also update to say that these pictures are of the fish not ... they survived, but my guess is that 2 of the lucipinnis got it on and spawned and the eggs when through the mesh I have on the background and ...

... this black coloured balls :P.
Second thing is - your fish could have spawned before but not in marbles :) - they do not use this constuction in the ... There has been a lot of theories & misconception about breeding Syno. Petricola, I'm here to prove or disprove some of what I read, this is just based ...

... done it in main tank before I move them to set for them breeding tank :(. Main tank got 45x100cm bottom area but a lot of catfish in it (5x s. petricola,4x l. brevispinis and another pair of p. typus).

This time everything is different because male is carrying eggs. He is alpha fish in this tank ...

My buddy spawned some Synodontis multipunctatus 4/01/06 and sold me 6
of them awhile back. At the present time they are 3.5" so 3.5 inches of growth
in the last 13 months. It's my belief that Synodontis multipunctatus are faster
growing then most of the other Synos and S. petricola in my experience ...

My buddy spawned some Synodontis multipunctatus 4/01/06 and sold me 6
of them awhile back. At the present time they are 3.5" so 3.5 inches of growth
in the last 13 months. It's my belief that Synodontis multipunctatus are faster
growing then most of the other Synos and S. petricola in my experience ...

Well I have been trying to capture the eggs of my Petricolas while they spawn. They have been transferred to a ten gallon with upside down flower pots on top of jars with marbles. I found eggs in one of the jars tonight and proceeded to take the marbles out. I am not sure when she spawned so hopefully ...

... the following species, multipunctatus, nigriventris, schoutedeni, petricola have there been other documented spawnings without the use of hormones. I know many other species have been spawned in Europe with the use of hormones.

Mark

... they are Synodotis eggs since I have bred S. multipunctatus and S. petricola before and have seen their eggs. They were pin head sized and totally ... petricola eggs before from becoming a meal.

What species of Synodotis spawned here? I don't know since I did not see the event. The two species I ...

Okay so the petros finally spawned. Actually they have been spawning for the last 5 days. I have pulled probably 500+ eggs and I think I got one to survive. They fungus up so quickly.

Last night when I went to bed at a 11pm there were no eggs in the bowl with marbles. This morning at 4:45am there ...

... fish, including their own siblings. Syno's are hardy fish in general, petricola's have been spawned in water conditions quite different from the lake they came from. Was the fish found in the lowest basket any larger than the ones above it? I would think it would get first pick of incoming food. If ...

Synodontis petricola "dwarf" and multipunctatus are both commonly available and will adapt quite well to 8.2, with no problems. Just keep an eye on your cichlids if you keep them with multis. Mine hadn't ever spawned with anything, so when I moved them in with my yellow labs and peacocks the idea that ...