Albino S.multipunctata

hero782 · Post by **hero782** » 25 May 2012, 01:50

I recently had a batch of 5 S.Multipunctata born but one of them came out albino. I've never seen any before and want to know how rare it is?

Post by **Birger** » 25 May 2012, 02:47

Looks good and healthy!

Someone over the past winter reported a batch with two little albinos in it I do not think they survived though. Still looking for that post.

Not to preach but it is very possible your fish are, both are great fish either way, it is just taking awhile for people to understand...it is fairly easy to tell which you have by counting the pectoral fin rays on one fin and is easy to do with a good picture of a pectoral fin(of course on an adult), the adult size of a true Synodontis multipunctata is larger as well.

S. multipunctata and S. grandiops are most reliably separated by pectoral-fin ray counts with S. mutipunctata having 1 pectoral fin spine with 8 soft rays and S. grandiops having a count of 1, 7 .

Birger

Post by **Birger** » 25 May 2012, 03:00

Here is the one I was thinking about...I guess which species was never confirmed...and I am not sure where I got that they did not survive...maybe another post somewhere not really sure.

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... =8&t=34386

Birger

hero782 · Post by **hero782** » 25 May 2012, 03:23

Hmmm thanks! I've never heard of grandiops. I'll try to take pictures of the parents and post them.

Scleropages · Post by **Scleropages** » 25 May 2012, 03:25

Pretty cool. Never seen an albino cuckoo cat before. Good luck raising it!

tomr · Post by **tomr** » 25 May 2012, 09:28

I dont usually like albinos, but that is real cool.

exasperatus2002 · Post by **exasperatus2002** » 25 May 2012, 13:36

Hang on to that one. Its a gem.