Hi all, I've noticed (as I am sure the rest of you have) the great disparity in size between larval S. multipunctatus and S. lucipinnis (dwarf petricola). From my estimate I'd say that a week old multi is about 1cm in length and lucipinnis is about half that. I've also noticed that multi eggs are ...

I'm doing some work comparing the early life stages of tang. catfish. Currently I am working with S. multipunctatus and dwarf petricola, but I need to expand my sample size. I am looking to spawn: S. dhonti S. polli S. sp. nov. some non-tang I am also looking for: S. njassae S. victoriae S ...

I read the CotM archive on the cuckoo and it brought up a few questions in my mind. Maybe the information it presents has changed in the four years since it was written, but some of it seems a bit off. The archive states that S. multipunctatus have no spots on their belly, but I have seen some that ...

Sid, I have to ask about your account of S. multipunctatus spawning. You say that the cuckoo catfish will scatter its eggs if no host cichlid species is present, but all of the liturature and my own observations show that S. multipunctatus is an obligate brood parasite. If what you observed is true ...