Dinyar,

Thanks for the heads up with the sharp nature of the crushed coral.

I have worked with hatcheries and I ensure you that I have found two sperm cases on two seperate ocassions. I assume they are Syno sperm cases becauses they are the only fish in the aquarium that I would imagine could ...

BTW, I have found large quantities of sperm, that could only be from a Syno in my tank.....

Paul.... see my post in c*****ds & Synos...

Thanks everyone for your input. I am glad to hear that the Syno's I have will do well in high pH tanks. Water out of the tap is 7.0 and Alk is 60 mg/Land the hardness is 60.

I have a 90 gallon tank that has been fixed up and I am going to move the synos in there (Paul, I appreciate your concern ...

Ok, I currently have two Eupterus's and 2 Ocillifer's in a community tank.

I really would like to go with rift lake cichlids.

According to planetcatfish the Eupterus and Ocillifer should not exceed a pH of 7.5 and 8.0 respectively.

Both of these species should be fine with lake malawi cichlids ...

I will have to go shopping for either a blacklight or red tube light.

Yesterday, I fed them live brine shrimp and they gobbled them up so fast. If you haven't fed your Syno's live food it is a pleasure to watch...

Ocellifer photo...

http://www.geocities.com/davekuhn77/syno.html

I have a 4" eupterus, 4" Ocellifer, 5 " Ocellifer and a 1.5" juvenile Eupterus. They don't bother the pleco or each other. Plus, I have many other fish that swim around.

These synos are very friendly to each other and often hang out in the same rock cave. If they get annoyed with each other they ...

I will look into that.... thanks!

I have had great success with 2 ocellifers and 2 eupterus's in a 30 gallon long tank. I have many rock and drift wood caves for them. They get a long great! They can all hang out in the same cave if they choose to. 3 of them are aprox. 4 inches in length.... This is successful due to the high water ...