Setting up a spawning site for Petricolas

darthvader4bwu · Post by **darthvader4bwu** » 17 Apr 2005, 17:06

I have 1 male and 3 female synodontis petricolas which are housed in a 150 gallon with 40 + Tropheus Ikola Kaisers and 3 Eretmodus cyanos.The tanks decor consists of 3 piles of texas holey rock situated on each side and the middle of the tank i also have concealed in the rock piles flower pots. My question is how do i create a setup for them to spawn in

Yann · Post by **Yann** » 18 Apr 2005, 17:34

Hi!

MAybe you shall search on the site, the articles section (catfish of the Month and Shane's world) has certainly sufficient stuff on the topic to answer your questions!!!

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Cheers
Yann

eupterus · Post by **eupterus** » 18 Apr 2005, 21:43

Hi

As with syno multipunctatus I beleive that S. Petricola is a cukoo spawning species. Spawning is known to have occured with mouthbrooding species. In which case the tank mates you have selected will be ideal however. From past literature that I have read it has been suggested that the sex hormones released by the spawning cichlids triggers the synos into spawning. This is why many wholesalers are able to hormone breed the synos for the aquatic trade. As for your situation. I would feel your best bet would be to have a fair number of petricolas ( as sexing is never easy ) and some mature tropheus and eretmodus. Look at the feeding and water chemistry for breeding tropheus and hope that in doing this you may trigger the synos into action.

Best of luck, it would be a superb achievment.

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 19 Apr 2005, 09:52

eupterus wrote:Hi

As with syno multipunctatus I beleive that S. Petricola is a cukoo spawning species. Spawning is known to have occured with mouthbrooding species. In which case the tank mates you have selected will be ideal however. From past literature that I have read it has been suggested that the sex hormones released by the spawning c*****ds triggers the synos into spawning. This is why many wholesalers are able to hormone breed the synos for the aquatic trade. As for your situation. I would feel your best bet would be to have a fair number of petricolas ( as sexing is never easy ) and some mature tropheus and eretmodus. Look at the feeding and water chemistry for breeding tropheus and hope that in doing this you may trigger the synos into action.

Best of luck, it would be a superb achievment.

They are NOT CUCKOO spawners. They spawn in marbles, I believe. See this thread.

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Mats

eupterus · Post by **eupterus** » 19 Apr 2005, 10:37

I may be wrong then , but from reading all the posts on that thread I cant see any reference to the successful rearing of fry. If no fry have been raised then I would suggest that this may be attributed to lack of surregate parents in the form of the cichlids. If fry were raised then I stand corrected and am happy that i have learnt something today

Thanks

95cobra · Post by **95cobra** » 19 Apr 2005, 14:54

They do spawn using marbles. I just got my second spawn in the last month. I have had mine for about 3 years and they were about a year when I got them. It takes longer for them to mature and start spawning than the multi's. I have been spawning multi's for about 10 years now, and still enjoy finding a fish with a mouth full.

davidkozak · Post by **davidkozak** » 19 Apr 2005, 17:33

A picture...the clay flowerpot trays are 12 inch one's...the top one has a hole drilled for the fish to enter, and the bottom one has a layer of marbles for the eggs to fall down into and not get eaten..David
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y144/w ... orum/s.jpg

Setting up a spawning site for Petricolas

Setting up a spawning site for Petricolas

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