new way to spawn syno. Petricola

tomr · Post by **tomr** » 04 Dec 2006, 00:29

in the past the jars of marble method has worked for me in the spawning of syno petricola. Recently the jars have all been empty but...i have been doing gravel vacuuming every day of 5 gallons into bucket. Every day i find various eggs/fry in the buckets. The hardest part to believe is with the petricolas, i have 7 syno.Multipunctatus and lots of large cichlids. the eggs just fall into the gravel must be every day.

dauph · Post by **dauph** » 06 Dec 2006, 17:57

It's unbelievable to read your experience. I have 6 Syno Petricola and I'm not able to breed them. I tryied the bowl full of marbles and it don't seem to work. Do you keep the synos alone in their tank?

I have also a group of 6 Synos Multipunctatus and I just add a trio of Ctenochromis Horei... hope I will see some little Synos soon.

Do you have any info on breeding these species? I found some on Internet but I like to have personnel experience.

Thanks.

Martin

tomr · Post by **tomr** » 06 Dec 2006, 18:42

the petricolas are in a crowded 75 with 7-7inch multipunctatus, various large cichlids and some cory cats.

dclaassen · Post by **dclaassen** » 25 Dec 2006, 14:29

My petricolas are also in a community 75g setup. Their eggs always get eaten, and the flower pot method also has not worked for me. I saw this post on another site: http://www.duboisi.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3727
I am going to try a 2 ten gallon breeding setup like the author describes. Seems like it is more natural for the petricola to scatter their eggs and then save them by having rock work for them to fall into. We will see I guess.