I think being congo synos they would be egg scatterers.A screen across the bottom with some plants such as anubias or any bunchplant on top of the screen should possibly work.the pebble idea sounds like it comes from lake tangy syno breeders.

Birger

I do not think they are either irsacae or ilebrevis.
Unless there is a change they would go on the list of unknowns.

Cangradulations go to Andreas For managing to get his name used for this fish...a great honor!

Birger

I would have to call hybrid on this fish as well, recently I have been asked to ID simiilar looking fish from diffrent sources.

Birger

For brichardi a 40.would be okay with plenty of river rock and current.also a large group of nigrivrntris is always good. THere are robertsi in NA too right now.

@Shane, yes I have made arrangements, thank you for keeping them safe. Beers are on me.

Birger

The spot between the eyes is special AFAIK and what you observe, I believe, is normal. Doradids for instance have a light sensor spot between the eyes aka "third eye", that's actually responsible for many hormonal functions. IDK if it is the same in synos or most/all fish. synos have this...

I am booked,will be in the hotel tuesday or wednesday, look me up.

Birger

I spent years training in martial arts with Joseph Nelson, great guy and very knowledgable.
Unfortunately now passed away.

I do have another of his books on Fishes of Alberta.

Birger

Victor I am thinking yes it is B. meridionalis.
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Most smaller ones are more silvery with black spots but considering it has been kept for some time it may have matured some but stayed stunted.

6 to 8 inch should still be considered a baby.

Birger

the congo fish would probably be wittei, hard to tell from the picture. The other two would be more of the undescribed as explained in the beginning of the revision. There is a lot of misunderstanding when it comes to sizes, people are quoting the revision which explains that the small sizes are fro...

Can we mix african and american cichlids???? I do not think that is a great idea...Central americans usually are quite fiesty and conditions needed can be quite different. As for African cichlids there is quite a variety of cichlids in Africa from many dfferent areas, I am assuming you are talking ...

I am going to be disagreeing with Richard on this one, I think lucipinnis.

Birger

Hi, yes I can take more photos. It has been residing in a tank of mixed Tanganyikans, I am quite sure it is a polli, it interacts with the other polli and has darkened considerably.


Birger

Looking for opinions on this one, contaminent in with wild caught group of Synodontis lucipinnis and S. petricola. there is spotting, faint dark spots at times.
thanks for looking.
Birger

it is best to leave them together.

the Habrosus scatter the eggs but do it one at a time...on plants or the glass.

Birger

You will notice victor the spotting is different between the two threads, the fish in this thread I believe to be a. tanganicanus...the other has different spotting and could be an undescribed species considering the area it was exported from.
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Birger

I believe this is a hybrid

not so sure on this, it is 20 or so years old. A mature ocellifer would have developed spots within its black spots, this one does not have that.
I can not ID without a better shot....


birger

Still get to a decent size.

birger

I think it is a these have been exported quite a bit lately and are all over the place, I have been asked to ID many of them.

Birger

the frosty eyes...S. ocellifer are notorious for having eye problems.

Birger

I currently have all three species, the only cory's I have.

Habrosus and pygmaeus are more similar in my experience.

C. hastatus is more of a mid water schoaling type fish.

birger

S. nigrita is often available, just keep watching for it. Oh, you are in Calgary, go to Pisces pets, they have a few most of the times I go in there.They might also call them Lace cats.



Birger

I agree with richard on this one for sure!!

Birger

@Birger, I've seen pictures from some caught in Montana on a fishing website that I estimated were pushing the 12" standard length as well, but really caught my eye was the great golden yellow color those fish had. Nuff said, Would love some like that!! not allowed to keep them in alberta anym...

the max SL fish are from a Lake Michigan version of the fish if I remember correctly.All others are smaller.

Birger

Definitely hybrid as stated.

Birger

[quoteI've got one lonely adult Synodontis nigriventris that I suspect is female,][/quote]
I suspect this to be a male.

Birger

During the PVAS Catfish Convention we collected from the Rivanna River in Virginia. They seemed to be more aggressive with each other then the also collected.

Definitely neither of the species mentioned on the video.