Synodontis clarias "Redtail"

[SGypsyMermaid]

turns out that one of the unidentified synos that i bought a couple of years ago is one of these rare cats. i got them at 12.99...armkes has 'em for $69!!:dance:

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/mochokid/synodont/287_1.php

[SGypsyMermaid]

okay, i also have a brachysynodontis batensoda, and a hemisynodontis membranaceus!! that's why i could never i.d. them...i kept looking under synodontis !

[Seedy]

Cool, Good for you! I'm still stoked on getting my 3 S. decorus for $8 each...My biggest is now pushing 7+ inches Gonna be time for a bigger tank for the trio soon....

[Woot]

If I tag along to wholesalers, I can get Syno. Angelicus for $18 each. I'm gonna get me a big adult one for $30 from there sometime. I was sooo close to getting one last time, I liked the markings of the littler ones better though. My first one I got is starting to get more size to him, maybe 4" now. The one with nicer markings is abit smaller still.

I got some lace cats for like $6 at a salt water shop while I was checking it out. The biggest one is a beast now, and is actually kinda cool looking IMO. I bet its around 6" now, it doesn't take the Mbunas crap. :eek:

I've seen a few less known types (to me)of Synos, but they usually don't look too special. Synodontis budgetti was one of them.

[SGypsyMermaid]

okay, after more looking, i think that i have 2 h. membranaceus, and no b. batensoda...but i'm still not sure---those two are hard to tell apart. i wonder if it's a pair? one of them is almost twice the size of the other.

also, one of the cats that was sold to me as an ocellifer, i now believe to be a s. notatus ocellatus. 2 cats which were sold to me as petricola(which i've known to be wrong for some time), i'm still working on, but i think that one is an ocellifer and the other an acanthiomas...i've got spots floating before my eyes from staring at all these spotted catfish! :rolleyes:

[Woot]

Wow how can you mix up ocellifer and petricolas? Where do you get your oddball Synodontis at? Alot of them I've never heard of.

I picked up a small Synodontis flavitaeniatus at the last EIAA auction. Only $6, and he isn't spotted!

[SGypsyMermaid]

i got them at 3 different lfs. on aquabid, i got s. petricola, s. multipunctatus, s.nyassae, and s. shoutedeni.

have you seen pics of the adult flavitaeniatus? the lighter area is pale red!

[SGypsyMermaid]

oh, and i forgot the angelicus--aquabid. i had a eurystoma(polli), but it died in a move, and i may still have 1 microsynodontis batesi hiding in the rocks of one tank(lfs).

[Woot]

The only pics I've really seen of them are off of planet catfish. I hear the stripes can be anywhere from a yellow to orange. Pale red might be neat too.

[SGypsyMermaid]

here's a few not-so-good pics of some of my synos:

http://www.cichlidgallery.com/Katfish-Korners/aterrimus_redtail_clarias_membranecenus?full=1

http://www.cichlidgallery.com/Katfish-Korners/hap_sp_bluebar_s_angelicus?full=1

http://www.cichlidgallery.com/Katfish-Korners/hemisynodontis_membraneceus?full=1

http://www.cichlidgallery.com/Katfish-Korners/synodontis_nyassae?full=1