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6 NICE Tank Raised Synodontis petricola! Last ones

Item #1304386965

Current Auction Time: Fri May 17 08:22:22 2024

		Final:	$51.00		First Bid	$1.00
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	13 (bid history)
		Started	Apr 28 2011 - 03:12:45 AM		Location	Kenmore NY 14217 United States
		Ended	May 2 2011 - 08:42:45 PM Auction Closed
		Seller	Lotsoffish (6423/6442)
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		High Bidder	Halfcentury (74/75)
		Payment	Money Orders/Cashiers Check, PayPal
		Shipping	Will Ship to United States Only Seller Pays Shipping,

Seller assumes all responsibility for listing this item. You should contact the seller to resolve any questions before bidding. Currency is U.S. dollars (US$) unless otherwise noted.

Description

Hello Folks! This auction is for 6 Synodontis petricola. This will be the LAST week I have these fish! These fish are approximately 1 1/2-2 inches long. They only get about 4 inches long and they are a NICE looking Synodontis. These are a nice CALM catfish and in my opinion really should NOT be kept in African cichlid tanks. A community tank would suit these fish much better. These will also spawn for you (the fish I have were bred right here in Buffalo NY) and spawning them is actually quite easy if you want to try it. All you really need to do is condition your fish with Black worms, white worms and some frozen foods, place a large flower pot in the tank 2/3 filled with marbles and do a large water change refilling the tank with water about 5 degrees cooler then your tank water and wait. If they are ready to spawn all your fish will enter the flower......... hang on. Harold & Derek Walker explain this a lot better than I can and it will save me a lot of typing- "First thing you want to do is condition your fish, you`ll notice when they are ready by looking at the females. In the females mid section you`ll notice that at spawning time it will become swollen with eggs and we also noticed that when the female is ready, the males have become slightly aggressive towards her. As soon as they are ready, place the flowerpot with the marbles in the tank, you will have to keep a close eye on the tank. Since you can't see through the pot, you will have to know when to pull the bowl of marbles out, this is why we have two bowls of marbles. When we need to check we just pull it out and stick the new one in. Because the Syno`s are spending a lot of time in the pot, the bowl gets real dirty so we change the bowls out twice a day. When the spawning process began we were lucky enough to be home at the time. We were getting ready to feed the them when we noticed that all of the catfish were in the pot. We grabbed a flashlight and shined it in to the pot and we could see some eggs floating down towards the marbles. Both male and female will swim in circles around the inside of the pot and as they swim around it sort of creates a whirlpool. As the eggs are laid the male is releasing his sperm at the same time and the movement of the water forces most of the eggs as well as the sperm to the center. Eggs from the first spawn that were in the center of the bowl were all fertile and the ones that ended up around the outside, (towards the wall of the bowl) only about 30% hatched out. Synodontis petricola eggs hatch out in about 48 to 78 hours, from my first spawn we had over 200 eggs. We placed all them into egg tumblers and unlike the S.multi, Synodontis petricola fry grow rather slowly. We had some S.multi fry that were only one month old that were twice as big as the petricola at four months of age. From what we know Synodontis petricola will only reach about 3/4 to an inches in the first year and it might seem a long time to raise a fish but keep in mind they only reach 3-4 inches." Thanks Harold & Derek Walker! Now please don't sue me for lifting your spawning account word for word off www.scotcat.com! You are bidding on 6 1 1/2-2 fish. I will ALSO send you one other species of fish with this auction! Shipping is 100% FREE and I guarantee live arrival of ALL NICE fish. I will also toss some GOOD QUALITY foods into this box! It's all GOOD STUFF! Folks, I don't mess around. I sell nice stuff. I start all these auctions at a dollar and I offer free shipping and an unconditional guarantee. Trust ol' Lotsoffish. email me any questions

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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Shelldweller1 (222/225)		Apr 28 2011 - 10:29:12 AM		$1.00
Shelldweller1 (222/225)		Apr 28 2011 - 10:02:24 PM		$6.00		Bumped up by: Fishmanbill $6.00
Shelldweller1 (222/225)		Apr 28 2011 - 10:03:33 PM		$10.00		Bumped up by: Fishmanbill $10.00
Shelldweller1 (222/225)		Apr 28 2011 - 10:05:02 PM		$13.00		Bumped up by: Fishmanbill $13.00
Shelldweller1 (222/225)		Apr 28 2011 - 10:05:46 PM		$18.00		Bumped up by: Fishmanbill $18.00
Shelldweller1 (222/225)		Apr 29 2011 - 04:40:49 PM		$22.00		Bumped up by: Snoreson $22.00
Triz (101/101)		Apr 29 2011 - 04:44:09 PM		$30.15
Weis_on_ice (63/63)		Apr 29 2011 - 10:41:13 PM		$33.00
Weis_on_ice (63/63)		May 1 2011 - 11:09:50 PM		$35.00		Bumped up by: Sparkky $35.00
Weis_on_ice (63/63)		May 1 2011 - 11:10:44 PM		$37.00		Bumped up by: Sparkky $37.00
Weis_on_ice (63/63)		May 2 2011 - 01:14:58 PM		$43.00		Bumped up by: Boltsfan $43.00
Weis_on_ice (63/63)		May 2 2011 - 02:16:43 PM		$49.00		Bumped up by: Jimr2 $49.00
Halfcentury (74/75)		May 2 2011 - 02:46:48 PM		$51.00

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