What can I feed Synodontis Dhonti?

jolly_polli · Post by **jolly_polli** » 15 Jun 2004, 22:25

Hi,

Has anyone experience in keeping S. Dhonti and what do you feed them?
I have 5 of them for 6 months now, one is aprox. 15 cm the others 12 cm and at this moment they are swimming in a tank (720 liter) with Tropheus and are living of Spirulina.
In a few months I want to place them in another tank with frontosa's will this be a problem with food or in any other way?

Greetings Gijs

Post by **Rusty** » 16 Jun 2004, 01:28

No, won't be a problem. I have several, and they eat anything that will fit in their mouths, and occasionally things that will not. Fishing an oversized piece of shrimp out of a squirming fishes' gullet is not a fun experience.

Rusty

jolly_polli · Post by **jolly_polli** » 16 Jun 2004, 05:20

Fishing an oversized piece of shrimp out of a squirming fishes' gullet is not a fun experience.

Thanks Rusty,

I will take care in what to feed them when they are with the Frontosa's

Greetings Gijs

Post by **Dinyar** » 16 Jun 2004, 15:32

While S. dhonti enjoys meaty foods, as Rusty indicated, they have a surprising appetite for veggies. Unlike say S. polli, they enjoy things like fresh cucumber.

Also surprisingly (in light of their large adult size and the growth rates of most other Synos), they grow very slowly. In general, we find that Tang Synos grow much more slowly than riverine Synos. I wonder why? Any ideas out there?

Dinyar

sidguppy · Post by **sidguppy** » 16 Jun 2004, 16:15

perhaps because they involved in a cichlid-infested lake and went for being extremely tough and longlived instead of breeding like rabbits and growing fast?

but it's weird indeed.
you can buy a 1,5" eupterus, and within a year and a half, it's a 7-8" fat monster.

no way you're going to re-create that with a baby multipunc or a 3" juvenile granny......

not to mention recordbreakers like petricola, 'polli white' etc who take years to reach a mere 2" from hatching.