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Hi guys! I just bought an orphaned spotted Synodontis from my LFS. S/he's about 7" long. Could be macropunctatus (hard to tell when the specimen image is preserved), nigrita (if it doesn't grow), ocellifer, or zambezensis, but I don't rightly have an idea. I'm not worried about the size too terribly much as I have a 90gal, but it would be good to know that I don't have a longirostris.

Thanks in advance!

(I'll post more pictures once it settles in a bit. Going well so far!)

Don't worry, this is clearly no S longirostris ;)

My vision is that this could very well be a S ocellifer

Tanganyikafreak wrote:Don't worry, this is clearly no S longirostris ;)

Oh, phew. ;)

Tanganyikafreak wrote:My vision is that this could very well be a S ocellifer

Ok, thanks! That was what I was guessing after the secondary Google image search. I'll run with that one unless someone says differently.

This is not S. ocellifer, but a hybrid [almost certainly ].

Sorry, it is none of the above, this is a hybrid.

The humeral is not right for S. ocellifer as well as the size of the spots

Birger

Silurus wrote:This is not S. ocellifer, but a hybrid [almost certainly

Synodontis sp_hybrid(7)

].

Oh, that definitely looks like him! Any idea how big they get?

Whilst it is a hybrid & we can't be certain of which species were used to create it, it'd be a safe bet to say it will at least reach 6" SL (body size, without tail)& may well get a couple of inches longer

Okie doke. So, at about 7", he might get 1 or 2" bigger, but not much?

I'll keep everyone posted. Looks like only one other user has any.

emacartoon wrote: Looks like only one other user has any.

More likely people haven't updated their "my cats" section - i know i am slow to do so.

Silurus wrote:This is not S. ocellifer, but a hybrid [almost certainly

Synodontis sp_hybrid(7)

].

Clearly it's the hybrid 7 ;)
My bad..