Random Shot From Various Tanks (no Bettas!)

[Ethos]

I'm surprised you didn't sneek in a betta picture...intresting..

 

[wuvmybetta]

gorgeous frontosas and some nice plecs!

first is a LDA01

but your 2nd is infact a L163 Big spot peckoltia looks like the para plec but has no spot on the dorsal fin.

Thank you! I knew it had a DA in it ) So I've been calling my para plec the wrong name all of these years, aay? ) Thanks for the heads up, now I know nothing about him. He's not the fish he used to be, anymore

 

[Paul_MTS]

awwwww don't be sad, there basically the same fish just a few less spots!

 

[SRC]

That syno is gawgeous!

He can't help it,

Breeding: There have been a limited number of successful spawnings in an aquarium. Females are larger, are paler in coloration, and have a plumper more rounded body, particularly when ready to spawn.

Breeding: This species is reported, being bred by hormone injection, where the sexes are differentiated by the female having a fuller body than the male, but I would ascertain that the papilla in both sexes would show a difference. According to Brichard, 1978, a female can lay between 3,000 and 4,000 eggs.

That would definately make a girl "a lady of size" .

also, some trivia on syno's.....they are called "squeakers".

The common names for this family are derived for several species tendency for topsy turvy spatial orientation, swimming upside-down. Lace refers to their branching "whiskers", and "squeakers" for making squeaking noises, particularly when netted and lifted from the water.

Can you tell I like these fish . If I can obtain another 20L I want to get a tank with just some of them in it....I might have to lose the tv in my bedroom though...it's sitting in the only viable space it could go .

I love my syno....she is a hoot, but oh so elusive...I only see her if I turn the room light off, the tank light on, and sit about 2 ft away from the tank in complete silence and without movement..otherwise she retreats back underneath her cypress stump lol....I bought a baby one months ago...I rarely see it ...just a rare glimpse now and then...I never even see it eat, it's quite good at playing hide and seek. (I was convinced for a 2 week period it had jumped from the tank...2 days after I tore my bedroom apart looking for it's body...I saw it swim out from behind the filter inlet, in an almost purposeful, nonchalant way...."oh, you weren't looking for me, right?" lol )

 

[wuvmybetta]

I wish I could get a good pic of my syno petricolas, you'd love them! They're so very itty bitty and fast.
The lady I got them from did a presentation on breeding petricola, it was very interesting.

 

[SRC]

oh...my...gosh.....NO WAY you have some of the white tipped ones!!!! Oh you are so cooool...those are the prettiest ones out there!!!

Did you get them from a breeder? I would love to get a couple of those....next year after it warms up lol (I really don't like having fish shipped while it's cold).

I have some pics of some (hope you don't mind me hijacking for a minute) ...I did some research after I got my UDC and discovered these and thought they were just so pretty...*scoffs* not like I though I'd ever see any around here...we have a very limited variety of fish to choose from.

These are babies, like 6 months old if I remember correctly.

 

[wuvmybetta]

Yup, that's them! Mine are just a few months old, too.They came from a local breeder. They're very young, I'm hoping to get more off of her in the future, she supposedly has them coming out of her ears.
She sold me mine for 5 bucks. I saw her at the cichlid convention this past summer and she had a boatload of fish to sell, I was extremely interested in the petricola but they were selling for outrageous final bids, like 80 bucks for a bag of six! So when she showed up at the betta show to do a presentation, I just had to buy her 'examples'

 

[SRC]

Wow 80 bucks for 6...wooo $13 a piece for babies lol...ouch.

Well, should you decide to hit her up for more...I wouldn't mind one ... if you can talk her into it...just let me know...Paypal is only a click away .

 

[wuvmybetta]

Will do