Breeding tank for synodontis.

[Maccus]

Wondering what would make a better breeding tank for synodontis eupterus, a standard 55 gal or a low and wide 40 gal?.

BTW, I used to be here under a different name but I couldn't get into my account that it said didn't exist anymore when I tried to log in.

[Birger]

Wondering what would make a better breeding tank for synodontis eupterus, a standard 55 gal or a low and wide 40 gal?.

You would probably get a better answer to this if you gave the dimensions of the tanks...I would use the one with the biggest footprint I would think.

For interests sake can you give more details as to how you intend to go about spawning these?

Birger

[andywoolloo]

I have 5 euptera in a 75 and I think they need a bigger tank.

I ve had them for about 4 yrs and no babies, not that I desire that. The fish stores here have baby euptera all the time from segrest farms I imagine.

They do get kinda big and you'd probably need a massive tank to have enough of them to maybe breed.

I do not think anyones bred them naturally in captivity.

[Jools]

BTW, I used to be here under a different name but I couldn't get into my account that it said didn't exist anymore when I tried to log in.

What was you old username?

Jools

[Maccus]

Appreciate the advice, though my group lives in a 150. The 40 or 55 would just be for breeding and I hope if I am ever successful, raising the babies. One person on here did breed them on here, so it's possible, just difficult, very difficult I suppose?.

My name used to be something like Syno_eupterus. I just switched over to the name of my other catfish.

[Richard B]

IMHO if you want to have a serious attempt at breeding these i would suggest you need more than a single breeding tank.

I would have a couple of tanks set up - one with your best male in, one with your best female in. Then you can condition them up for an attempt at breeding with selective feeding & where you can bring them together & closely control water conditions. You might need to try this several times & change some variables, you know the sort of thing, sudden drop in temperature etc. You could try having a population of guppies in the tank as they breed easily & will perhaps produce some pheremones which might also trigger breeding. perhaps a PH change on one attempt? This is how petricola & granulosa are spawned by a UK importer/wholesaler.

[andywoolloo]

wow, 150 gal. sweet.

good luck!