Weird never heard that about synodontis. Ive never seen it either.
Been looking for a cat to go with my polys and was seriously looking at synodontis but had read up and found that some do suck slime coat off polys. This made me change my idea to a different cat. There are just so many to choose from and then there is tank size, lol. This is what starts you down the path of multiple tanks.
Never heard of this. Can't imagine a syno doing that, my featherfin practically ignores polys to be honest.
I did a search for 'catfish with bichir' when I was researching and found some syno do this. Was surprised myself, always thought it was just a pleco thing.
I just searched too and the only thing I found was this site and some random person saying they do. I still don't believe it. Not going to say ot couldnt happen but I find it very unlikely. You would think theyd do it to all kinds of fish and there would be wide spread documentation of it happening. Never bothered my cichlids they would beat the cichlids to the food was about all they ever did. I have three different kinds of syno currently in my tank and not one instance of them harassing my polys. I did have a del grab one of the multis when I was a little hasty mixing them size wise. They both lived.
Aggression is different. That I could see as they can and will sometime get aggressive and territorial.
Yes very true. Black sharks,redtail sharks, flying fox, those all do it. Multis are one of the only synodontis that do well in groups 5+ or 1. And yes synodontis do fight with other synodontis. I have yet to see one of my synodontis get aggressive with a poly. They chase my bristlenose and vise versa, and each other. Like I said the two multis ganged up on the one and killed it so they are aggressive and can do harm but I think its mostly interspecies less so with other species, if it does happen its more of a "move on sir" type aggression.
