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Syno i.d. please
Posted: 13 Feb 2010, 03:02
by syno_Haps
Hey everyone, although this is my first post i have came over to planetcatfish for your help. I've had this syno cat for about 3 years now, and never knew what it was. I've looked through the cat-elog but nothing seems to match what it looks like. So here are a few pictures.
Here are a couple pictures i took a hour ago, i put the cat in a smaller tank to get a couple better shots.
Any suggestions please.
Re: Syno i.d. please
Posted: 13 Feb 2010, 08:50
by naturalart
Looks like cuadovittata or haugi in my humble opinion.
Re: Syno i.d. please
Posted: 13 Feb 2010, 10:27
by MatsP
I'm pretty convinced it's NOT S. haugi. The adipose fin is longer than in the adult
.
Also, I'm starting to form the opinion that S. haugi has never been available in the trade. There is ONE of the fishes endemic to the Ogowe (Ogooue) river basin that has a keeper, and I'm far from convinced that is correct either.
Ogowe river fishes - this list shows fish that occur in the Ogowe river, but also fish that have a wider distribution. If you click on the ones with kepers (i: x, k: y) - if k is not zero, you have to check if the distribution is Ogowe, and you'll find that only
has ONLY Ogowe as distribution, and has a keeper.
This could be wrong in three different ways:
1. The keeper has misidentified the fish.
2. The distribution of S. albolineata is wider than the Ogowe basin.
3. The registered keeper isn't actually keeping the fish, but using the register as a "wish-list".
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Mats
Re: Syno i.d. please
Posted: 13 Feb 2010, 11:44
by jippo
naturalart wrote:Looks like cuadovittata or haugi in my humble opinion.
I would say caudovittata, everything match. Very nice species
Re: Syno i.d. please
Posted: 13 Feb 2010, 12:04
by Richard B
agreed
Re: Syno i.d. please
Posted: 13 Feb 2010, 12:07
by MatsP
Can you e-mail the pictures to me, mats at planetcatfish dot com, and copy webmaster (Jools), and I'll add those to the Cat-eLog.
I will need your full name and user-name in the e-mail as well (and make sure you are clear what the fish is, as I've got several synos in my inbox at almost any given time...)
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Mats
Re: Syno i.d. please
Posted: 13 Feb 2010, 17:07
by Birger
It is refreshing to see the ID of a genuine species, they look to be in good shape
.
Also, I'm starting to form the opinion that S. haugi has never been available in the trade.
This statement would be generally true and the fish is as you say generally not available...but we have here at PC seen some unusual or seldomly collected syno's come through over the years.
Which is nice as there could be a surprise around the corner any time and keeps me looking in back corners and under decorations anywhere I go.
Birger
Re: Syno i.d. please
Posted: 13 Feb 2010, 18:51
by Dinyar
Same fish as this
. Whether it's really Synodontis frontosa I don't know, but I've kept this fish for more than 10 years, and I'm quite sure it's the same fish.
Re: Syno i.d. please
Posted: 13 Feb 2010, 19:51
by MatsP
Birger wrote:It is refreshing to see the ID of a genuine species, they look to be in good shape
.
Also, I'm starting to form the opinion that S. haugi has never been available in the trade.
This statement would be generally true and the fish is as you say generally not available...but we have here at PC seen some unusual or seldomly collected syno's come through over the years.
Which is nice as there could be a surprise around the corner any time and keeps me looking in back corners and under decorations anywhere I go.
Birger
Agreed. I'm not ruling it out altogether that they will turn up once in a blue moon (or once in several blue moons). But I still think that if we only have ONE keeper of ONE of the Endemic species in Ogowe, it's clearly not something that is getting exported...
I'm not saying "give up trying" or "give up looking", but rather that the "convincement factor" [I just made that up! ;) ] needs to be so much higher than for fish that are from areas that have common export to the trade.
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Mats
Re: Syno i.d. please
Posted: 13 Feb 2010, 21:53
by Birger
If I was to chose between
and
I would have to go with S.caudovittata on this one, the absence of spots and the olive color in it's base colouration especially apparent when stressed but seen as well in the first picture where it is much darker brown with olive on the underside.
Birger
Re: Syno i.d. please
Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 08:14
by syno_Haps
its nice to put a species name to the fish. Thanks for the help,
MatsP wrote:Can you e-mail the pictures to me, mats at planetcatfish dot com, and copy webmaster (Jools), and I'll add those to the Cat-eLog.
I will need your full name and user-name in the e-mail as well (and make sure you are clear what the fish is, as I've got several synos in my inbox at almost any given time...)
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Mats
I will get those pictures to you. Anything to help out, and return the favor.
Re: Syno i.d. please
Posted: 15 Feb 2010, 14:37
by syno-kev
i have the syno-frontosus and he is light grey in colour about 8 inches long,
very nice friendly fish and good with other synos !
Re: Syno i.d. please
Posted: 21 Feb 2010, 17:28
by Birger
It would be real nice to have the shot of the male in the first picture as well for the Cat-eLog...that is the way I think S.caudovittata should look like when feeling good about itself.
Re: Syno i.d. please
Posted: 21 Feb 2010, 17:50
by MatsP
I have another couple of photos, just got on with some of my own work.
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Mats