Synodontis compatability
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i personaly don't have any experince w/ synos as a main catfish but odds are that courgette(zuccini)&shrimp
pellets are your best choice.synos are semi teritorial fish and can reject other fish causing problmes w/comm.fish angelic synos are paticularly open to disease at this time.you should try anyways as synos are usaualy pretty laid back
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pellets are your best choice.synos are semi teritorial fish and can reject other fish causing problmes w/comm.fish angelic synos are paticularly open to disease at this time.you should try anyways as synos are usaualy pretty laid back
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I bought him yesterday and he accepted sinking catfish pellets after 10 minutes, promising. The only thing im worried about is that synos are prone to eating neon's or so I've heard. Odd tho coz the lfs where I bought it had three angelicus in the neon tank? Is it just an urban myth about ferocious synos? He seems pretty happy, eating as he is and he's picked himself out some prime tank real estate (hollow tree stump). I have read that angelicus are nocturnal as well?
I have 3 synodontus multipuctatuses in a 15 gallon with a bunch of african fry 1/4" - 1/2"... and so far so good.
I put sinking clown loach pellets in after the lights go out, and they are right on top of them as soon as they touch the gravel. it's almost like they are hiding in the rocks, waiting for somonas to approach the tank 
I put sinking clown loach pellets in after the lights go out, and they are right on top of them as soon as they touch the gravel. it's almost like they are hiding in the rocks, waiting for somonas to approach the tank
let me clarify my previous post.for some reason i said to use zucinni? what i meant to say was algae waffers.my synos won't touch meaty food such as blood worms or brine shrimp.
i've read that angelic synos are best kept alone or in a pair and can be territorial to others of it's kind.now about the neons you should be safe untill the syno grows (6 1/2 inches is max size) once the neons are mouth size watch out.it isn't a myth about ferocious synos some types can be quite viscious as they get older and larger,but this can be combated by keeping them in large tanks and giving them proper decoration, your hollow stump sound good
i've read that angelic synos are best kept alone or in a pair and can be territorial to others of it's kind.now about the neons you should be safe untill the syno grows (6 1/2 inches is max size) once the neons are mouth size watch out.it isn't a myth about ferocious synos some types can be quite viscious as they get older and larger,but this can be combated by keeping them in large tanks and giving them proper decoration, your hollow stump sound good
Just to confirm what others have said, we had a syno in our tank for a while. We were told by one fishmonger, if you will at a LFS nearby that they were compatible w/ everything and that there would be no problems.
Well, what a liar Mom turned out to be. We started to notice neons disappearing 1 by 1, w/o a trace. not even a little bit of any bodies. When we started dealing w/ our "trustworthy" (read as: in it for the love of the fish and not $$$) he told us that, as others said, if it fits in the syno's mouth, it's an hors d'ourve. We quickly relocated said syno to another tank and there has been no problem since. Actually, the syno in question wasn't even fully grown yet, was only 3-4 inches in length. Beware Britfish...beware as there should be no further murders in the area.
Well, what a liar Mom turned out to be. We started to notice neons disappearing 1 by 1, w/o a trace. not even a little bit of any bodies. When we started dealing w/ our "trustworthy" (read as: in it for the love of the fish and not $$$) he told us that, as others said, if it fits in the syno's mouth, it's an hors d'ourve. We quickly relocated said syno to another tank and there has been no problem since. Actually, the syno in question wasn't even fully grown yet, was only 3-4 inches in length. Beware Britfish...beware as there should be no further murders in the area.