Hi,
I added five of these to my mbuna tank yesterday and they've really surprised me with their behaviour.
The last time I kept any type of catfish it was a few pictus in a general community tank, and I hardly ever saw them until they were fully grown. They constantly hid. I was expecting the same to happen here, and my primary reason for getting these was to act as fry control in the future. Seems they're far more than that though. The synos seem to be the complete opposite of what I was expecting as a catfish. As soon as I introduced them to the tank they were exploring, foraging on and around the rocks and pipework, and swimming out in open water. They got chased out of the greshakei male's cave a couple of times, but this didn't seem to bother them, and the cichlid just nudged them out a couple of inches - not a real chase. They kept going back in until he started ignoring them. The synos are all between 1.5 and 1.75" and don't seem to be at all concerned when a 4.5" cichlid comes up to them.
I'm really impressed with them so far, and it's nice to see some different behaviour in the tank.
No real reason for this post, other than to say that synos seem pretty cool :thumb:
I added five of these to my mbuna tank yesterday and they've really surprised me with their behaviour.
The last time I kept any type of catfish it was a few pictus in a general community tank, and I hardly ever saw them until they were fully grown. They constantly hid. I was expecting the same to happen here, and my primary reason for getting these was to act as fry control in the future. Seems they're far more than that though. The synos seem to be the complete opposite of what I was expecting as a catfish. As soon as I introduced them to the tank they were exploring, foraging on and around the rocks and pipework, and swimming out in open water. They got chased out of the greshakei male's cave a couple of times, but this didn't seem to bother them, and the cichlid just nudged them out a couple of inches - not a real chase. They kept going back in until he started ignoring them. The synos are all between 1.5 and 1.75" and don't seem to be at all concerned when a 4.5" cichlid comes up to them.
I'm really impressed with them so far, and it's nice to see some different behaviour in the tank.
No real reason for this post, other than to say that synos seem pretty cool :thumb: