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What kind of Syno is it, please?

I would guess a very thin-lined schoutedeni, but then I sort of spotted your location.....

uh-oh

probably a hybrid, chances are pretty big...

unfortunately the Czech Republic currently is the biggest breeding ground of Synodontis- and Corydoras-hybrids; it's almost like a national industry....
"Czech Hybrid" is a household word here; you can even do a search on it

sorry.

I would guess a very thin-lined schoutedeni

First time I've seen coppery eyes on a schoutedeni. Let's see, what other synos have coppery eyes...

polli springs to mind, but a cross between polli and schoutedeni would have a shorter nose and bigger lip, would it?

Hello,

Looks like an odd colored Synodontis Eupterus to me.


Herman

Hello. What size is it. I have 2 very similar in color , 2and 2.75 inches long, and believe they are syno eruptus.

Are we jumping on the hybrid bandwagon too quickly? catfish_cz, can you post a few more pics (but SMALLER please!).

Jools

Now, in this picture I see the tell tale dent in the head. This does look like a hybrid, perhaps S. eupterus and S. multipunctatus?

Jools

Well,

like Jools said we may spring too quickly on the hybrid bandwagon, but after looking at the second picture it looks like a hybrid between S. eupterus and S. schoutedeni to me.

Greeetings,

Achim

What does "the tell tale dent in the head" mean? I see it but how does that relate to being a hybrid?

What does "the tell tale dent in the head" mean?

Only by the fact that it is completely absent in all natural species of Synodontis, but frequently present in hybrids.

Thank you all.

I would like to ask you about pictures of Syno on planetcatfish. Are this Syno from nature (wilde caught) ?

Yes, Synodontis eupterus is a fairly common wild-caught aquarium fish.

Could someone point out the "the tell tale dent in the head" please.?
Not hijacking the subject but I have 6 S.Eupterus 3 of which have very different head shapes and would like to know more.
Is this a result of cross breeding or the use of hormones even.?

Thank you.

Look at the back of the head in the nuchal ("neck") region. There is an obvious indentation there.
This indentation is probably the result of development due to the hybrid genomic makeup and is common in many interspecific (and intergeneric) hybrids.

How about that? And the colour is very pale compared to the others.

http://website.lineone.net/~delbod/see2.jpg

Do you have a picture of the whole fish?

http://website.lineone.net/~delbod/see2.jpg

There,ops I changed the original picture.

From the looks of it, I suspect that your fish has some kind of teratogenic deformity. The adipose fin seems unusually large, in addition to the unusual morphology of the nuchal region.