I have kept these before and often had trouble settling them in they don't seem to be as hard as other
more robust syno cats ,

main thing is try to get them feeding !
live food may help till they get settled

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Large-catfish ... 2a4d21b903

i noticed this today on ebay hard to tell what it is maybe (acanthomias ?)

ten inches long location Aldershot UK.

OMG ! - I want one ?

what price was this beauty ?

yes already done that he only had the one !
he ordered half a box of them and got one only he also sold the other giant proberbly to the same person .

fffeeeck !

sold .

i missed it i guess someone on here bought it

all the synos were £10-12 starting price ,
decoras,angelicus,lucipinas,petracola but i was the only bidder and i only took 1 of the 2 angelicus as i believe they can be agresive with each other all the others went unsold.

there was also a large 6 inch red eyed panaque at £25 which also went unsold.

i was at grtr manchester c######d auction on sunday and bought a lovely little 2 inch
genuine syno angelicus for £12,

very cheap i thought !,
they also had decorus and lucipinus and a few cory catfish

not many other catfish there mostly malawis and tangys but very happy with angelicus

just checking in again as its been a while since i last posted to see if anyone on here has noticed the above for sale in any uk shops ?

thanks

looks like a hybrid to me ,

i have kept ocellifer in the past and the ones i had were more light grey in colour with
bold spots and even with the poor pic i still think they are hybrids

what is the PH of the water ?,

as it needs to be in a malawi set up and not normal river fresh water tank !

wow they are beautiful !

its so nice to see pics of these synos.

no the temp is fine and so are the other fish .
i do feel its a bullying thing though !
only ive seen it doing this before with the multipunc i had in that tank
but i got rid of that about 2 months ago and now the bloody nigromac has started doing it ?

i have a 4ft malawi set up and i watched very strange sight last night of my 5 inch syno nyassa floating as if dead with the slightly bigger syno nigromaculatus pushing it around , im sure its a bullying problem but it is totally unmarked no damage no marks it looks perfect and as soon as i turned ...

can we see a picture ,
what price was it ?

thanks , please can you send me a P.M. with the details when you have it, of price and location but it may be the chap who has been on here before from wales and hes had these fish for sale now for about 2 years at a very high price and theres was some questions in a previous thread as to they were ...

yes they still have the one at wharf in notts it is 9 inches and im not suprized really as they want £150 for it , compared with the one at maidenhead aquatics in wembley which was £65 and they had it for nearly 2 years im guessing unless theres a mug out there with loads of money this one is in for ...

hello again everyone , you may remember a few years ago me posting a topic to help find one of these fish , and i just wondered if anyone has found one of these true synos not hybrids for sale in the uk ? there was one at maidenhead aquatics in wembley over a year ago but somebody beat me to it and ...

you will be able to get the syno out in day light hours by feeding at a regular time each day , try prawns or muscles broken up or chop up a small piece of a crab stick my synos love this, i buy frozen from the supermarket and just defrost in a cup of warm water when i feed them but only once a day ...

he has them listed as yellow synos ?
but carnt find a match on the syno cat species page .

i spotted these for sale on ebay uk location southern england but just wondered if these were hybrids as i dont recognise these ?

thanks for all your help guys ,

not a bad fish then for £7 - ??

cheers
kev

i just bought this at a local fish auction ,
it was just label giraffe catfish,
any ideas which one ?
2 pics below i can not do anymore as hes now hidding in 5ft tank !

here is a pic of my syno alberti ,
its fully grown about 8 or 9 inches with the head of the slightly bigger decoras behind it .

that pardalis pic is stunning !

has anyone seen any for sale here in the northwest - UK.

??
I would love one of these for my collection.

i to have a giraffe bought as auchenoglanis biscutatus from wildwoods uk but mine looks nothing like the data page picture ,
god knows what is is but hes a great tank buddy for my larger synos and very active to !.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HELP-SAVE-RESCUED-CATFISH-RED-TAIL-TIGER-NIGER-GIRAFFE-/180583805693?pt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Fish&hash=item2a0ba232fd i found this today whilst looking through ebay just click on the above link to see some great pictures of some huge tropical catfishes rescued from tanks they have ...

syno eupterus should really be in a river tank not in with malawis etc in hard water,

although they are very tolerent of most waters i too have found they can sometimes be a bit of a bully/chaser when i have had them with other synos and is now one of the synos i do not keep .

that is syno-decoras i have one about 8 inches in my main tank they also call it the african clown for obvious reasons ! but be aware of hybrids on this as theres hundreds around at the smaller shops but if you go to one of the shops that specialize in catfish you should find a genuine one. also ...

A guy in south wales selling 2 x longirostris for £125 each which is double what the one at Maidenhead Aquatics Wembley sold for and last i heard he had sent it to one of the major dealers to sell for him , he did post a mail on here last year asking for value and identification so this maybe the ...

yes i will have to get a picture but thats not easy i have loads of rocks in there, this is what it was bought as about 4 years ago now from wilmslow aquatics but looking at the syno list page i am sure your right !, its way to big for atterima,it even seems to big for shoutadeni which would be next ...