Spawning Synodontis njassae

Aamodt · Post by **Aamodt** » 19 Jan 2005, 02:12

Does anyone have any experience in spawning synodontis njassae?

Post by **corybreed** » 19 Jan 2005, 04:10

I have had a group of 5 njassae for the past year. I keep them with a few African Cichlids. So far nothing to report.

Mark

sidguppy · Post by **sidguppy** » 19 Jan 2005, 06:27

imitate the rainy seazon!

S njassae is a "regular" syno, not a chuckoo.
It spawns once a year, and does so at the beginning of the rainy season; it migrates to the riverdelta's, swamps and brooks surrounding the lake.

it really needs to swim and a fair bit of current as well.

friend of mine managed to get eggs just once; and they only spawned in tanks 5 feet or longer. with exactly the same tricks in a metertank, it didn't budge.

adding certain food like black mosquitolarvae, gammarus, mysis, fisheggs etc might stimulate too.

pturley · Post by **pturley** » 19 Jan 2005, 15:37

Sidguppy wrote:

it really needs to swim and a fair bit of current as well.

friend of mine managed to get eggs just once; and they only spawned in tanks 5 feet or longer. with exactly the same tricks in a metertank, it didn't budge

Sounds alot like spawning Silver Dollars (Mytennis spp.). Give them room to run for the courtship chases and they'll spawn but you don't have a chance in a smaller tank.

Aamodt · Post by **Aamodt** » 19 Jan 2005, 19:09

Thanks for your help. For now I canÂ´t have a 1.5m tank for spawning synos... maybe someday.