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Great pictures. Hope your not trying to put me off my new Syno!! (joke).

Lovely!

Graeme.

She Loves every one in the tank apart from the Pl*co ,who lives in the Guppie tank at the moment .For his own good.
You may notice the nibbled fins from the young Synos I have in the tank ,she does not seem to mind that at all.

Hey, DelBod; mind to enlight us a bit?
tanksize (LxWxH) x gallons/liters?
other fish, and how many; species, etc?
Looks like a fairly big eupterus, but I'm used to them being a lot darker in color; is it the light, or is it just a light colored individual?

Sorry for the one liner.

Tank size 48â?

Your njassaes are actually <i>S. nigrita</i>. Not a particularly sociable species.

Silurus are you sure?

I am on the verge of buying a new tank ,so if 6 S.eupterus and S. nigrita might clash it would be handy to know.
Thanks.

Here's my Baby S.eupterus. Thanks for removing an doubt i may of had. It's good to see another baby S.eupterus.

Silurus are you sure?

A little light in color, but unmistakeably <i>S. nigrita</i>. <i>Synodontis njassae</i> is a more slender-bodied species that is gray, not brown.

I found a picture of the S.nigrita with the tank light and no flash on the camera.
This shows the normal colouring better I think.

http://website.lineone.net/~delbod/Syno ... 0light.jpg


At the moment they all seem to be getting along just fine ,the S.nigrita sleep under the large S.eupterus most of the time.

Silurus is right. Your fish are S. nigrita.

Dinyar

Yes thanks for the ID. In that case how big can they grow?
Looking up S.nigrita I see that it's adult size would be larger than S.eupterus.
I wanted to get two or three more S.nigrita in about six months time but that might mean two Syno tanks if they start to fight.

I have one s. eupterus and am wondering what sex it is. I see in this thread that one of the photographed fish was referred to as "she"...how can the sex be determined?

Also, on my s. petricolas I am assuming that the males are the ones with the little protrusion that can be seen on the underside and sometimes also when viewed from the side. Is this a correct assumption?

how can the sex be determined?

If you look in the Cat-eLog entry for <i>S. eupterus</i>, you will see how.

Is this a correct assumption?

Essentially, yes.

thanks! I realize I <b>had</b> read that but had forgotten. I see why. The terms are beyond my understanding; however, it was good to have read in any case as I had forgotten the comments about having more than one of these in the aquarium.

Which of course leads me to another question....in my 70g tank, where this eupterus lives, I am wondering if the space is adequate for one or two more as the comments suggest that it would do fine with others...a detail I had been wondering about, having apparently forgotten that bit of information as well. : ( The tank is underpopulated right now.

The lfs does have a couple more....one of medium and one of small size and, although the supplier told the owner of the store that the small one was a <i>different</i> synodontis, it certainly looks exactly like the young form of s. eupterus. BTW, the other fish in this tank are community fish rather than other AF fish. I feel a little embarrassed about this as I originally intended to have it share the tank with pelvichromis pulchers, but a friend said that would be the wrong AF fish...but my only other AF cichlid is n. pulcher, a lone queen whose environment is a much higher ph. So, water parameters being fine, it went into the 70.

Would it be better to have AF cichlids with the eupterus? I do find that feeding it problematic as even after dark the other fish seem to go after its food...nonetheless it does appear to be well fed...perhaps fry are a part of its diet? and/or snails?

I don't think it's a good idea to add more <i>S. eupterus</i> to your tank. The problem is not one of compatibility, but stocking density. Since this is a species that can reach 9", I don't think it's wise to put more than 3 in the tank (and that is assuming you have no other fish in the tank).
If your syno looks healthy, then feeding isn't the problem and you should be able to continue with your current feeding regime.

Thanks!! It would indeed be nice to have a tank just for this fish (and more) as it is quite lovely and has grown from an abused/roughly handled specimen (broken dorsal tip) and other fin tip injuries...exposed bone...the dorsal has regrown and has the longest extension! A lovely fish...almost got a photo of it last night at feeding time...I do hand-place frozen food near it so that it gets <i>that</i> for sure.

IMHO. With good filtering a 70 gallon tank should be ok for three S.eupterus with no other stock .
But having said that I am heading for a 150 + gallon tank in the next six months as this would be a better size I think for a S.eupterus community tank.

yes...I can imagine that a larger tank would be ever so much better...they ARE big fish and to be able to have 6' length would be much better (as I imagine it anyway!)...and maybe 24" front to back as well.

Those are lovely fish you have, btw!