mwahahaha leopardus!

[owi]

yup.. recently I found a shop sell synodontis leoparadus.... I buy 7 of them...
Ill go back to shop soon and washout any leopardus left there...
about leopardus... :
it is different with other syno...
it cant grow big, just 6cm max and will be with you about 3 years.... which is its down side...
on the other hand it is a nice little fish. I keep it with a platy and a small guppy and the leo dont bully them at all....
Like other syno, it is nocturnal, swim belly up some times and eat quite a lot...
here my photos... enjoy...

[Silurus]

That isn't S. leopardus, but a hybrid (something like

Synodontis sp(3)

).

[owi]

That isn't S. leopardus, but a hybrid (something like

Synodontis sp(3)

).

hi... didnt notice that (sigh)...
Still I like the spot pattern.
btw what is the consquence of being a hybrid ? can it still breeds or they became infertile ?

[MatsP]

There are certainly a risk that they are infertile, but there are also plenty of examples of fish that breed in hybrid form (for example many of the domestic forms of livebearers come from hybrid breeding, and they are still fertile and generally even fairly stabile in their off-spring).

It is however very likely that they won't breed with natural means simply because the breeding of them involve injecting the "parents" with hormones - and the offspring may not be capable of "natural" breeding simply because the trigger system that normally attracts the female to the male (and the other way around) will not necessarily work when the female side is from one species and the male side from another.

--
Mats

[owi]

helo...

recently I saw a tiny brownish-wite thing scattered in my syno aqua(almost like white sand) in my synodontis sp.3 aquarium then photograph it. I leave it for several hours and when I back almost all gone . And I saw one of my syno eat those few that left....
could this be the egg ?
here is the photo (due to my camera uw setup it looks darker then what it really be)....


next time it happened what should I do ?
should I take the white things onto spawning aquarium ?
how strong is syno eggs ? the reason I dont move the eggs is because I donno how fragile they are, Im afraid ill break it when im move it
And what treatment should I give after separate the fish and the (probably) eggs ? should I give it water heater ? filter ? methyline blue ? I dont know because all fish i have before are live bearers (ye im noobs )
thx in advance....