Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Bright representative of his family - Sinodontis angel, star sinodontis (Synodontis angelicus)

Synodontis angelicus lives in a river basin of Congo.
Synodontis angelicus possesses dense, a bit extended at length and slightly flattened on each side a body. The big eyes. A mouth bottom with 3 steams of moustaches. A fatty fin large. Young small fishes are painted in red-violet colour with white specks. Adult individuals grey or dark-violet with numerous fulvous or red-brown large stains of the roundish form. Also there are small fishes small white specks. Unpaired fins with zebroid colouring. At young catfish fins are decorated by graceful points. With the years colour of a body slightly grizzle, and color, fins becomes more intensive. Sexual differences: females are larger than males, have more developed paunch. Synodontis angelicus at length reaches 25 Life expectancy till 15 years see.

Synodontis angelicus a peaceful and quiet small fish. Activity shows at night, but often leaves shelter in the afternoon. It is not compatible to small fishes of the small sizes.

Synodontis angelicus can be contained in the general aquarium, volume not less than 150 litres with a considerable quantity of shelters (caves) and large bushes echinodorus or others large-leaved plants with powerful root system. As a ground use run-in sand or gravel that fishes have not damaged short moustaches. Parametres of water for the optimum maintenance of Sinodontisa of an angel: rigidity 3-12 °, рН 6.5 - 7.0, temperature 24-28оС. The filtration, aeration and weekly substitution to 25 % of volume of water is necessary. Illumination moderated.

The food allowance star sinodontis (Synodontis angelicus) consists of 70 % live (bloodworms, tubifex, koretra, daphnia, a fillet of a cod, a shrimp, scrape meat, heart and etc.) and 30 % of a vegetative forage (the salad and dandelion leaves scalded oat flakes, crumbs of bread and etc.). In the nature catfish eats insects, shrimps, fry other kinds of fishes and the vegetative rests.

For cultivation Synodontis angelicus it is necessary spawing in volume from 100 litres. Spawning pair or group. For stimulation of maturing of sexual products to manufacturers do pituitary injections. Water parametres: rigidity 2-4 °, рН 6.5 - 6.8, temperature 28оС. In an aquarium it is necessary to arrange a current. The female throws from 600 to 3000 berries. After spawning of manufacturers removed, a water part replace fresh. At fry from first days of life negative reaction to light, therefore an aquarium is shown shade. The incubatory period lasts about 36 hours, in 2-3 days young starts to float and eat. A starting forage - a small plankton, vegetative additives are obligatory.
Sinodontis angel, star sinodontis (Synodontis angelicus)

Sexual maturity Synodontis angelicus reaches at the age of 2 years.

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