fin clipping

[Dave Rinaldo]

Any tips?

I'm about to do this with a live Synodontis sp to be included in a molecular phylogenetic project.

I'm taking the sample from the caudal fin and putting it in 190 proof everclear.

Just a little gun shy! Will the fin grow back?

[MatsP]

Should grow back - I cut most of the hard ray of a Pimelodus pictus when it got stuck in a net, and a few weeks later, it couldn't tell which one it was...

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Mats

[Richard B]

yes indeed - soft finnage has IME pretty much always grown back in synos. Most of the hard rays in dorsal & pectorals too.

[Dave Rinaldo]

Thanks!!

I've got everything set up.

I'll be doing the "clip" when my assistant is available.

[Dave Rinaldo]

Well, deeds done.

That was nerve-racking!

The two fish sampled.

[Birger]

Ahh of course, this will indeed be interesting.

[kim m]

I've done it with Corydoras for the same purpose. The grow back fast, so I would think it would be the same with Synos.

[racoll]

I'm about to do this with a live Synodontis sp to be included in a molecular phylogenetic project.

Who for? What are they doing exactly?

[Dave Rinaldo]

I'm about to do this with a live Synodontis sp to be included in a molecular phylogenetic project.

Who for? What are they doing exactly?

Jeremy J. Wright

I'm currently doing a project that involves molecular phylogenetics of Synodontis and if you could get a small piece of fin tissue to me in 95% ethanol sometime soon, I could include it in the data set out of curiosity. I have data for S. njassae and another Malawian Syno, so the analysis should give some idea of where your specimen belongs.

[Birger]

I have data for S. njassae and another Malawian Syno,

My favorite part of the letter, as I said to Dave not really surprising but exciting nonetheless.

Birger