Aquarium
Care: This is quite an aggressive Syno and can grow quite
large. Its certainly not in the same league as S.schall but never the less still a bit of a 'grump' when housed, especially
with its own kind. A better environment
for it would be with large Cichlids and even a Lake Tanganyika tank
setup would do fine as S. acanthomias is very tolerant of
different water conditions and so a higher p.H.factor would not
faze it too much. If housed with other Synodontis I would
give it a large tank (4ft or above) and give them plenty of shelter
from each other and then monitor them to see how they will interact
with one another. I find it to be a trial and error in keeping Syno's
together, some get on fine, while others will not tolerate a certain
species/individual, so watch for a few days when introducing, and
have another tank ready if you are spotting any problems. Diet:
Will eat any foods given to your other tank
inhabitants and will also take flakefood that floats to the botom.
Feed also tablet foods and frozen bloodworm which they find a favourite.
Some form of vegetable content would also help to keep this Syno
in tiptop condition.
