I have a 55 gallon tang tank and was looking for some scavengers for my tank. I was thinking about crawfish and small red claw crabs when it hit me. Why not syndontist??? They have good looks , really good reputation , range from dwarfs to HUGE . Now i have been thinking. I would like maybe 4-5 multipunctatus and one larger catifish sort of like a center peice of the catfish. In the tank is 3 calvus, 3 regani, and 1 leleupi.(tangayikan community ). can someone suggest a larger catfish with a pic? I was thinking off maybe a angelicus. ph s aroundi 8.2
Your tank is too small for both 4-5 multipunctatus and a bigger catfish, not to mention the fact that the water is too hard for <i>S. angelicus</i>.
If you had a larger tank, I would suggest a larger Rift Lake syno like <i>S. granulosus</i> (look in the Cat-eLog for pics), but they need a tank at least twice as large.
With the possible exception of S granulosus and the definite exception of S nigromaculatus (a very territorial species, that would outclass angelicus on nastyness in seconds, were it more widely known); ALL Tang-syno's are social shoaling fish.
You won't please them or yourself by keeping a single Tangsyno.
And I assume -knowing you fronm other forums- that getting the cash for a 'granny' is out of the question anyway. (and keeping Granulosus in a tank smaller than 100G is not done IMO)
Get a group of S petricola OR S 'petricola dwarf' OR S polli, OR S 'polli Zambia' (=polli II).
None of these gets bigger than 13 cm or so, and a group of 4-6 fish will do fine.
They are all quite nice looking and easygoing as syno's go; not to mention, they should be available in the better LFS. Both 'petricola dwarf' and 'polli Zambia' are bred in captivity; those are available as small juveniles; easier to keep than wildcaught adults, and usually cheaper too.
Unless you get a bigger tank, combining several species isn't a good idea, and I'm not even getting into the esthetics here. It's best for the fish to get more of a single species, than to start a 'fluid stampcollection' of all kinds of Tang-syno's. Kept properly they will bring you much joy; show themselves a lot (if not 24/7) and won't put too much boisterous behaviour on the other fish.
Plan B should not automatically be twice as much explosives as Plan A
They have good looks 
, really good reputation 
, range from dwarfs to HUGE 
. Now i have been thinking. I would like maybe 4-5 multipunctatus and one larger catifish sort of like a center peice of the catfish. In the tank is 3 calvus, 3 regani, and 1 leleupi.(tangayikan community 
). can someone suggest a larger catfish with a pic? I was thinking off maybe a angelicus. ph s aroundi 8.2
