Flyfish25, amazing photo! Their growth is nothing short of incredible. Mine ate all the zebra eggs and two batches of Taiwan Reef eggs so far. At about 10 days the catfish is are over 1/4" in length already. I would not have belived it if I had not watched it. Are you a flyfisherman? It is one of my ...

Appreciate your encouragement, CatBrat. I have 5 adult S. Multipunctatus and 11 babies of various ages now. The adults are split up in to two breeding groups one having an extra male so basically they are in pairs.

Thanks, Paul. I started the BBS culture last night. There is always a couple of micro worms cultures running so I am going to try some of thoes also.

Please let me know if this posts the picture of the little guy in the incubator. http://imageevent.com/piccomments.jsp?r ... 1&d=1&ed=1

OK, I am a computer dummy. How do I post a photo in one of my forum posts?

Thanks for the reply. The little bugger finished off the egg he was eating this morning and then after eating the fry off the top of the egg sac he actuall swallowed the whole P. zebra egg. Amazing, like watching a python eat a rat. Thank you so much for the information on BBS. He only has one of ...

Now this is interesting! The last 5 days have afforded me the opportunity to watch a brand new, pre-release S. multipunctatus larval fry develop and feed. It has been fascinating to say the least. Here is how this happened. Last weekend while catching up assorted Mbuna fry and making the wonderful ...

Today I was cleaning out babies that had built up in my 120 gallon corner Mbuna tank. When the 350# of rock work was removed so I could catch up about 40 babies of different flavor Mbunas, lo and behold, there was 1/4" baby Sunodontis multipunctatus among the Mbuna. These are a different trio of ...

When I bred my Multi's, hosted by Taiwan Reefs, the tank had a lot of rock work in it which allowed the Multis to lurk close the the spawning pit and zip in and out quickly without warning. Once he finally got the female started the 4 1/2" male Taiwan Reef was so focused that he probably did not ...

Birger, where did you get the section you quoted from an earlier post? It mentioned a lot more fry than I got and I wanted to read more about it. I guess I was under the impression the number of fry the cichlid host would release would depend upon how many catfish eggs it picked up. I had no idea it ...

Congratulations, Sid.

Sidguppy, the parents are wild imports and look like all the multipunctatus I have seen. Silver sides, large dark spots black fins edged in white and white underside. Basic impression is a light fish with dark spots. I think the overhead view of the cameral aganist the white bowl make the babies ...

I decided to see if I could breed albino bushy nosed plecos to save the money it would take to buy enough for the 22 (totaling a little over 1100 US gallons) African Cichlid tanks I have set up. Well now, 5 or 6 months latter I have baby plecos coming out of my ears. I have sold them, traded them ...

Here are the baby pictures.
http://imageevent.com/jimlynchaz/babysy ... ctatus?n=0

I couldn't figure out how to embed the picture of the baby multipunctatus in this e-mail but, here they are on my web page. They are two days post release here.

http://imageevent.com/jimlynchaz/babysy ... ctatus?n=0

I'd think more of an issue than breeding sounds or scents, as I'd assume to a catfish a cichlid is pretty much a cichlid, you know they all pretty much look alike to a catfish VBG, is how agressive the cichlid is in defending it's spawning site. My synodontis multis were able to join in with the ...

Thanks, Paul. I fed them a blend of live microworms, finely powdered cyclopezee and baby brine shrimp. They appeared to pig out, little round balls for bellies like you discribed. They are quite active. I guess they are a lot more advanced than a baby cichlid when it is released. They are able to ...

Thanks. Duplication will be tell the tale. Once could be a fluke, but if the pair gets busy again then I may be able to raise a number of these little guys. It will take a number of repeat performances since the size of the broods is small. I got 8 but, I've read 5 or 6 is pretty common. Fortunately ...

I have found Melafix to work well to help beat up fish to heal missing scales and frayed fins. Of course a little time in a hospital tank or even behind a tank partition is priceless for a fish on the mend.

This morning, while working in the fish room, I noticed one of my female Protomelas steveni Taiwan Reefs had a couple of babies trying to get back into her mouth. The first impression was that these were really big babies. Closer examination revealed she had released 8 baby multipunctatus catfish ...

Fortunately mine were in about a 25% of sea water salinity and at 8.0 Ph when I found them and they seem to have aclimated very well to like water in the holding tank they are in now. As a matter of fact one of them is still up out of the water and watching me type this reply. Begging for another ...

I know this isn't a catfish but, this forum has lots of members that are into the more unusual fish and I am trying to find out about these cool little fish. Does anyone know anything about the mud skippers or where I can go online to learn more about them? Thanks.

FlyinMike, you will love these great little fish. I have had mine about a year now. I was doing some tank cleaning today and I moved an albino male into a tank that had a female albino with some Lamprologus lelupi. Within a couple of hours it was obvious that something was going on. The pair of ...