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Cuckoo syno lifespan
Posted: 11 Jan 2012, 18:10
by bigamefish
Hello I was wondering how long my cuckoo cats will live!
Re: Cuckoo syno lifespan
Posted: 11 Jan 2012, 18:12
by Jools
Simple answer is we don't know. I would guess 20 years in terms of death due to old age.
Jools
Re: Cuckoo syno lifespan
Posted: 11 Jan 2012, 19:08
by syno321
If you are referring to S. grandiops,I've got a pair that I obtained as S. multipunctatus in 1992 and I think they were around 2 years old at the time.
Re: Cuckoo syno lifespan
Posted: 16 Feb 2012, 03:04
by redstallion02
If you are talking about Synodontis multipunctatus I have seen people have them since as early as the 80's so they will live 20+ years as far as age goes. My group is a wild caught group that I have had for 5 years and they are still going strong. They take about 2-3 years to mature enough to reproduce.
Re: Cuckoo syno lifespan
Posted: 16 Feb 2012, 15:10
by Maccus
According to this forum, potential life-psan of synodontis catfish is 27 yrs.
Re: Cuckoo syno lifespan
Posted: 16 Feb 2012, 15:44
by MatsP
Maccus wrote:According to this forum, potential life-psan of synodontis catfish is 27 yrs.
At least 27 years, as we have recorded specimens that have been around for 27 years. And at least one of those is still alive, from memory.
I would expect that "the bigger, the longer lived". Unfortunately, fish often die from "accidents" rather than old age - filter stops working, some other fish dies and the water quality goes completely wrong, new fish added which carries a lethal illness that kills everything in the tank, fish escapes, etc. So any statistics collected will be skewed by these "accidental" deaths.
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Mats