Hybrid Syndosis?

[bassgenie]

Got these 2 from someone who was threatening to flush em last winter. He asked if I would take em for $20 bucks and a container of NLS. I felt it may be a good gamble seeing as he wasn't completely sure of the linage and they were showing some features of nicer syndosis I knew of. Complete dice roll. They came from "Animal Pantry" on the Island. Well seems I "crapped out". He said they were angelicus, but I disagree. Now that they are maturing, I'm 99% sure they aren't. Very nice patterning, but a hybrid, I suspect. There is a couple of moments you can pause the video and get a better look. What made me wonder is the Tail patterning. Sorry about the crappy cellphone video.
Ill be separating them from my Multi Group very soon as they should be maturing very soon. I hate to move them as they have really adjusted to their environment well. But Id hate to enable the creation of more hybrids. There are plenty of places for them to go. They hardly came out the whole spring and summer and have finally started coming out during feeding. Their growth rate is significantly more rapid than multis also.

Maybe Ill put them with the Ja River I would like to win at the auction.....Just kidding....LOL! :pound::pound::pound:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzRlf7b7eqA

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[Janne Aho]

Hello Josh!

My name is Janne Aho and I live in Finland. The fish in the video has nothing to do with Synodontis angelicus. I can't tell you the parents. Hybrids like that one are terrible to see in trade. The basic coloration with S. angelicus is black. For more information take a look at Lothar Seegers' book The Catfishes of Africa. I have at my home fast moving river biotopes from Africa. I have in Malebo Pool tank one S. angelicus male. It's very beautiful and have got it from Amazon Exotics and African Imports (American, African & Asian rare tropical fish import & export - Daniel Matthaus). The pseudonym "Jippo" from the forum PlanetCatfish could tell you the parents of the fish in the video, probably.

Best Regards,

Janne Aho

[toddnbecka]

Definitely a hybrid, probably ocellifer and something else, decorus or multipunctatus are commonly hybridized too.

[bassgenie]

Yeah, as I suspected. Ill be pulling them out very soon. Lovely Catfish, but I have a nice group of Multis I'd hate to taint.