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Hi, I'm interested in ordering the synodontis petricola from trimar, but I've seen they have two petricolas listed. One says its tank bred +small and only costs £8.99 and the other one says its wild +large and costs £42!

Does size make such a whooping difference??? Or is it because the tank bred are different in some way??
im confused. At my lfs they are £29

Thanks

Technically, they are not different - assuming the listing is correct (that is, they are not hybrids or a different species - quite a lot of fish called are )

Well, there are two different aspects of this:
1. Size - LARGE should mean a fair bit bigger than small - and these fish don't grow very quickly.
2. Wild-caught is (assuming it's correct) a guarantee that it's not a hybrid, at the very least, and for breeding purposes, they are not closely related [most likely].

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Mats

Most fish labelled as tank bred petricola will actually be

If it is labelled wild, it is quite likely to be a true petricola.

Size doesn't make too much difference but wild caught does and petricola are a hell of a lot more expensive than lucipnnis.

I have seen lucipinnis from £5 (sm)- £30 (lg), with petricola £15 (Sm)-£80(lg) in the last year in the UK

Has anyone else ordered these fish from Trimar?? They have hybrids listed down as proper hybrids so they arent cheating on them. Im scared whether I should order the tank bred ones. I might just wait for my lfs to get some.

I just looked at the gallery and on one of the pics it says syno. petricola english bred, and Im 90% sure they are the true ones. here is the link http://www.tropicalfish.org.uk/catfish.htm.