Synodontis eupterus (Featherfin Cats)
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Size and personality can influence their aggression.lorraine;2397749; said:I just bought 2 of these fellas. In Cyprus no one really knows anything about catfish / plectos.
I bough and ID shark and they told me he would stay about 3 inches, only after joining this site did I discover otherwise, however he is doing fine and now has a smaller ID to hang around with.
My syno's dived straight into my plectos hiding place and kicked them out (so to speak), luckily I have a few hiding places in my tank and the plectos just moved house!
Certainly don't seem to be aggresive maybe it's because I bought 2?!
Thoughts...
Will post pics when I can get them out of their den!!
On the other hand, my LFS has some 8-inch S. eupterus in their 100g. I offered to buy some but they turned down the offer saying they're not for sale when there was no label saying it is for display. I grumbled and went off the store.
mine is 8 inches and definetly picks fights with all my fish, the only one he doesnt mess with the the 8" jag that will stand up to him and chase him out of her hole.
Freedomradio;2309021; said:
My guess is the featherfin is only aggressive because the plecos are going into his cave. If you place some rocks around and make more caves the featherfin and the plecos will choose their own.
Marius;2403630; said:
Well,
His cave was at the top of the tank. He pick the spot that the HOF met the water... However I got rid of all my cat's two weeks ago.
He was just a angry little guy. I love all my new guy's !I must have gotten lucky. mine shares the bottom of the tank with my polys and a pair of Raphael's, and temparaily a pair of whiptail plecs. I got him at ~2.5" and was worried my poly might hurt him before he grew up. but he is now about 5-6" and doing fine he annoys my knife sometimes but hasn't caused any real problems.
