Syno Petricolas, Life stages w/ pics, compare to syno multi

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Syno Petricolas, Life stages w/ pics, compare to syno multi

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Adults
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Younsters at 6-7 months old, shot from under the tank.
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Syno petricolas at 5 weeks old
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Fry @ ~10 days
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Fry @~ 10 days, compare to specks of sand just above the main bunch of cats
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Syno multipunctatus at 6 days old, much bigger than petricolas.
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Compare the petricolas to syno multipunctatus at 6 days old (the syno multis in the above picture are with maleri island peacock eggs).
The syno multis are HUGE (3 week syno multi will be the same size or bigger than a 2-3 month old syno petricolas) when compared with a similar age petricola. The syno multis will grow MUCH faster.

The petricolas are like spots of sand as eggs and grow pretty slow.

Just thought some of you may be interested in the difference between these cats which look very similar. The multis are are bigger and more rambunctious as adults 5-6" vs the petricolas which are more docile and 3-4".

See my website for more pics. If interested, I have plenty of syno petricolas to sell, small and large quantities.
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Nice pix. Thanks for sharing.

As you probably know, these are the so-called "dwarf petricola", quite different from the described .

Do you know if the parents are wild caught or captive bred?

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Dinyar wrote:Nice pix. Thanks for sharing.

As you probably know, these are the so-called "dwarf petricola", quite different from the described .

Do you know if the parents are wild caught or captive bred?

Dinyar
Not sure wild vs captive.

Yes, they are dwarf petricolas. Do you have a picture of the diff b/w the so called "dwarf petricola" and the described petricola?

Do they look different? Different size? I have never tried to find out the difference.

Does the "described petricola", grow as large as a syno multipunctatus? I assume it must be somewhere b/w the dwarf petricola and syno multipunctatus.

Thanks
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Click the words -><- and you will see. S. multipunctatus theoretically grows quite huge, close to 30 cm (one foot), but I have never seen them even half this size. The average "real petricola" easily gets bigger than the average multipunctatus.
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