Cukoo Catfish

The cuckoo catfish synodontis multipunctata is a very popular medium sized catfish species that boasts lovely coloration. The cuckoo catfish is one of several species of upside down catfish. By elizabeth pennisi mar.

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It is a brood parasite upon mouthbrooding cichlids.

Cukoo catfish. But these crafty cuckoo catfish have caught on and they re angling to turn her offsp. Cuckoo catfish cuckoo synodontis. Indeed just like the bird with the same name this catfish will spawn among african cichlid eggs that are oral incubators.

Here it natively lives with the african cichlids. 10 8 inches 27 5 cm in the wild but 6 inches 15 cm is more likely in an aquarium. Average adult fish size.

This species loves to be in large groups this is how they are found in the lake. It has very. In the home aquarium they do best in groups of three or more.

This fish is quite sociable so it is advisable to keep them in groups of three or more to avoid the rivalry between two. Like the cuckoo bird it shares a name with the cuckoo catfish shirks its. This species grows to a length of 27 5 centimetres 10 8 in tl.

These catfish are medium sized hardy and good looking but can be very aggressive and territorial towards other catfish species. They get along with one another very well almost too well. Rocky african biotope with roots driftwood bogwood and caves.

A mother cichlid fish protects her young by keeping them in her mouth. This cuckoo catfish tricks other fish into raising its head chomping young. This beautiful catfish is endemic to lake tanganyika.

22 2019 9 00 am. Females cuckoos trick cichlid fish into raising the wrong young in their mouths even at. The cuckoo catfish synodontis multipunctatus is the poster child for bad parenting in lake tanganyika.

The cuckoo catfish is a very popular synodontis species that is beautifully marked stays a manageable size and is perfect for a variety of medium to large size fish tanks including lake tanganyika biotopes. The host fish will pick them together with their own eggs. Synodontis multipunctatus also known as the cuckoo catfish cuckoo squeaker or multipunk is a small catfish from lake tanganyika one of the lakes in the great rift valley system in africa.

Indeed its name cuckoo comes from its breeding mode.