Syn Petricola Setups for Breeding

[cajungator]

Please post your Petricola breeding tank setups pictures. Please also state your successful breeding conditions; ie. temp/ph/substrate/pots/water changes/lighting/conditioning/tank size/food/etc. any information would be very appreciated.

[MatsP]

I don't think many people have bred S. petricola - S. lucipinnis is bred relatively frequently, but the "true" S. petricola is not bred at all as often.

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Mats

[shamrock]

if you go to youtube, put in "petricola" can you can see some of their set ups. from what i can understand, i believe it replaces cichlid eggs with its own like the cuckoo birds. just briefly, they seem to use bowls w marbles and an inverted flower pot on top. more tha that i do not know :/

[MatsP]

if you go to youtube, put in "petricola" can you can see some of their set ups. from what i can understand, i believe it replaces cichlid eggs with its own like the cuckoo birds. just briefly, they seem to use bowls w marbles and an inverted flower pot on top. more tha that i do not know :/

That would be

SYNODONTIS multipunctata

that "Cuckoo spawns". I don't believe S. petricola or S. lucipinnis [which is far more common] are cuckoo spawners.

The "marbles" method is for egg-scatterers in that the eggs fall between the marbles and are "safe" from predators (including parents)

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Mats

[andywoolloo]

i saved some you tubes i found re spawning petricolas/lucipinnis but maybe they arent pet/luc ?

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[shamrock]

those fish are pretty entertaining to watch, very active. not sure whether i saw a petricola in the shop, i think it went for 32 (which is ok i guess IF the real deal).

MatsP - how was i supposed to know, they all looks same to me haha

btw is the top video actual petricolas?

[MatsP]

Well, obviously, if you knew, you wouldn't be asking questions if you knew! I'm just trying to help explain...

I would expect that they are S. lucipinnis, but I'll leave the final comment to Birger or Richard B.

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Mats

[Scleropages]

Both videos look like S. lucipinnis. The "Egg Spray" video is definitely S. lucipinnis.

[andywoolloo]

both videos look like lucipinnis to me also.

[Birger]

Both videos look like S. lucipinnis.

This looks correct to me....it is good to see the name and the differences being accepted more and more in the hobby.

[Richard B]

All spawning vids of petricola on youtube are actually Lucipinnis.

There are some vids of petricola, but no spawning ones.

Petricola are spawned by NHA on a reasonable scale but most hobbyists who are breeding & advertising tank raised petricola actually have lucipinnis - there are a few exceptions but in the grand scheme of things, it is a few...