African catfish breeds with african cichlids

[candidpets]

has leopard spots very beautiful and expensive? does not get that big maybe six inches white and black??? ANyone know whaat im talking about??? it is suppose to help the africans breed by helping their eggs hatch and vice versa kinda like cooko and the nightengale ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[tlindsey]

Its a specie of Synodontis which will lay eggs in the African cichlids eggs . The African cichlid are Mouth-brooders and when the catfish fry hatches it will.feed on the African cichlid fry.

 

[tlindsey]

Found the name Synodontis Multipunctatus.

 

[joe jaskot]

has leopard spots very beautiful and expensive? does not get that big maybe six inches white and black??? ANyone know whaat im talking about??? it is suppose to help the africans breed by helping their eggs hatch and vice versa kinda like cooko and the nightengale ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Synodontis multipunctatus doesn't help african cichlids breed. It uses them to incubate their eggs. The catfish will lay eggs while the african cichlids are spawning. The female cichlid will pick up the catfish's egg in her mouth. The catfish eggs will develop along with the cichlid eggs. The catfish eggs will hatch first and the catfish fry will eat the cichlid eggs. Eventually the catfish fry are released by the cichlid.

 

[Betta132]

Their common name is cuckoo catfish. They're called that because cuckoo birds lay an egg in the nest of another bird. When the large cuckoo chick hatches, it pushes all of the other eggs and birds out of the nest and kills them. Cuckoos are kind of like parasites, their presence is detrimental to the other bird. The other birds incubate cuckoo eggs because they don't realize that the cuckoo chicks aren't their own, and they end up putting all their time and effort into raising the young of a species that actively preys on them.
The catfish do the same thing, except that their babies eat the cichlid's babies instead of just pushing them out.

 

[Juiceh]

Was reading this shortly after I watched the film Jewel of the rift. It is documented here and thought its worth a share

 

[Lepisosteus]

for those interested in the bird...