Some great advice here especially about adding more cover rather than taking some away ! as for being able to see them as said you need well placed cover where they don't feel vulnerable but are visible to you, I've got a group of around 15 Aterrimus and a couple of Nigriventris and they are hiders ...

I have a group of Mystus Tengara/Vittatus ?and they are in with some smallish Barbs ! the problem with White Clouds is they are quite slim whereas Barbs are deeper so I'd be a bit wary of that combination .
One thing I have found with the Tengara /Vittatus ? is they aren't too aggressive which is ...

Black Lancers are docile during the day but active after dark !

Hadn't realised how quickly these grow from 45mm to 120mm in about 9 months six specimens in total , males are slimmer females chunky , beautiful fishes !!!

I'd have thought as long as you are preppared to do your water changes etc, etc, you'll probarbly be OK !

This is a nice fish ! though i'd say P.Siamensis is at least seven maybe eight inches standard length, they are quite variable too , some are very colourful and remain so as adults wheras some appear quite dull !

Wonderful pics Yann, i'd guess that they lay on plants ?

Hi Dave , i had a similar fish a while back , got mine out of a tank full of S.Nigrita , was yours a one off , or did it come in with other Syno's ?

Wow stunning looking Syno's !

Ok Andy thanks for looking for me , the fish is a Tinfoil , the black edge is actually RED ,oooop's SORRY !

Just to clarify, the Barb with the black edge running along the outer edge of its caudal is slightly obscured by another barb with reddish fins ! I've kept Barbs for years and for some reason i cant put a name to it ,Birger i can understand your guess at a Tinfoil , but i've never seen one with a ...

Hi Andy sorry to diverse a little but can you i.d. the barb on the last pic it has its caudal edged in black ?
Thanks .

Wonderful pics of your Microsyno tank Birgir :!:
At the moment i have no Micro Syn's , which is unusual for me ,they really are fantastic fish and well worthy of a place in a species tank :!: very interesting and great looking , also not too demanding , just plenty of hidey holes and a varied diet ...

Hi Kev, i keep a lot of Loaches [Botias] as well as a few Syno's , i like to decorate most of my tanks with Beech wood , i also put some flowering cherry in one tank , i was always under the impression that a lot of our trees were toxic ? no probs with the 2 mentioned , in my mind the beauty of ...

Hi Worton , we get quite a few of the Akysis sp/s , i must say i have'nt tried them yet , but am very tempted , hope you manage to find some

I always thought Robbianus had a look of Nigrita , but was more reddish in colour , as opposed to greyish brown , both nice fish really
going back to the fish pic on this thread , to me it looks very different to Nigrita i m o .

Thanks Birger , must say though the ones on this thread look different to the ones on the cat-log possibly younger specimens, must say i do like the Glytothorax group

Hi Birger , to be honest i'm not really sure , i suppose what i'm meaning is there could be half a dozen fishes under the Nigrita label , in other words a lot of different Syno sp/s being lumped under this name , some obviously very different to each other , i.e definitly cant all be Nigrita ...

I have three S.Waterloti which are roughly between 5 and 7 inches ? i seem to remember them beig lighter in colour when younger i.e. yellowish , they are now much darker , a kind of brownish base with blackish marbled lines , Waterloti are i m o one of the most beautiful of the Syno group , not so ...

Beautiful fishes , absolutely stunning thanks for sharing .
Are these fishes from India its just that i noticed a Crossocheilus Latius in th background .

I feel Synodontis Nigrita though supposedly one of the commoner Syno's is in reality not properly known ! i.e. there are so many pics of clearly different fish under the Nigrita label ! i feel i had this fish a while back , grew it on for a while and ended up giving it to Yorshire Pud ' er Yorkshire ...

Hi Worton,your taste in Cats is great , [not to sure about the Sabbath lyric's though :lol: ] i must agree these are wonderful looking :!: i'd have thought they would be ok in an unheated tank with lots of flow,i.e. a river tank as used by the people over on Loaches online :?: has anyone here kept ...

If the top two fish are Nigrita , they look quite different to each other i.e. shape of adipose fin humeral process !

Thanks for that Silurus i suppose it is best to stick to correct names

Does anyone know if the pics on the cat-elog of Mystus Tengara are really Mystus Carcio ?

Hi Fishy , Robertsi are one of the most sought after of the Syno's ,if you get the chance to get some act quickly as they wont hang around too long , as Yorkshire David said i have one , and yes mine is shy ! i'd ideally like to have a small group of these , i nearly got the chance recently as one ...

Is that the Yorkshire pudding himself Hi David

Thanks for the debate Darkone , very interesting stuff !

Hi Darkone , just been looking at the pics of Waterloti on cat-elog and the mask on the pic by M.Smith 4th one on the top looks different to the others pictured is the mask method a 100% acurate in fairness the M.Smith pic lookes closest to preserved specimen on the Koensis thread

Hi Darkone, i kinda agree which i guess means i kinda disagree :lol: i've got ten of these , though i bow to your superior knowledge , i'd like to have pics taken of each individual to see if there are any differences , would they all be the same or would there be little differences on each fish ...