The possible answer to breeding Pictus?

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The possible answer to breeding Pictus?

I've been searching for this answer for a while now and the closest possible answer was found on a website:

"http://markspetfish.com/2008/08/pictus-catfish-pimelodus-pictus/ "

I know a lot of you on here are truly experts in fish care, and I wanted to know your opinions on attempting to replicate this.

What would be a usable cichlid mouthbrooding "host" for this kind of experiment? Opinions on odds of success?

Here is the article from the website...

Breeding:
No known records of captive breeding. I once saw a documentary that showed wild Pictus Catfish breeding, and what the Pictus Catfish were doing was while a mouthbrooding cichlid was trying to scoop up eggs into its mouth the Pictus Catfish would fight a little bit with the cichlid while it layed its own eggs. Then the Pictus would swim away and the mouthbrooding cichlid would suck up the Pictus eggs, where they would hatch later on and eat the smaller cichlid fry that were hatching at the same time. Finally after eating all of the cichlid fry the Pictus babies would raise their dorsal, which would poke the mouthbrooder in the mouth and the Pitcus babies would swim out and start their own lives. Usually own 2-4 Pictus Catfish are born at a time.
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synodontis do that, I do not beleive pictus do
 
that method of breeding if very unique to synodontis catfish, more specifically S. multipunctatus. Which has been replicated in captivity. Its actually very cool.

However, i seriously doubt that pictus breed in this same way, and as far as i know breeding in captivity is unknown. probably requires hormone injections like many other species of catfish do in order to get them to breed.
 
Synos do that not pictus ;)

Pictus are from South america Synos are from Africa so i don't think a Pictus would ever encounter a mouthbording african cichlid
 
I have seen wild African import lists selling S. multipunctatus as Pictus Cats.

They are likely migatory spawners. Very long tanks or "runs" with very strong unidirectional flow would stimulate spawning.
 
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