Breeding Synodontis Multipunctatus

[watkinsrudy]

Hello everyone,
I'm relatively new to the forum and looking for some advice.
I have a very active trio of multipunctatus and have accidentally had 2 babies born which I was able to save. They are close to 2 in now and doing great. One other time I found a few babies that didn't make it. Since then, no luck. I have them with red empress, lemon jakes, and ruby reds. Since then all 3 of the groups have bred but no cats.
Do they figure it out eventually?
Is it possible to breed these the way petricola do and would it be worth me trying that? 
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Mike

[jcunningham0295]

No, you need to have a host fish for them to breed as far as I know.  I kept having to moveing mine to different tanks for different fish to host them.  The other fish will usually figure it out over time.

[watkinsrudy]

Thanks Josh!
Have you found any hosts to be better than others? 
I'm adding a new tank in the next week or two, I'm wondering if moving them all to a new tank or taking some of the cichlids out just to mix it up would help?
Any other advice appreciated.
Thanks!
Mike

[Ron]

I've heard that victorian species work better than malawian species as hosts. I've never had a good chance to try it out and see how true it really is. On paper it sounds good.

I've found that the haps will catch on, but moving the cats around to be with different groups like Josh suggested, helped.

The bigger the host cichlid, the larger the mouth and greater the eggs, which helps increase the potential size of the catfish spawn IME.