It is a brood parasite upon mouthbrooding cichlids. It is the world's longest freshwater lake. In East Africa’s Lake Tanganyika, the catfish has a very particular target: thick-lipped cichlid fish that use their mouths as nurseries to raise their young. These eggs will then hatch inside the unwilling adoptive mother's mouth, and proceed to eat the cichlid eggs present before being released by the cichlid. Pygmy Leopard Catfish (Synodontis petricola) 1 inch A small catfish fro Lake Tanganyika. Needs a diet of live food and dried foods. If kept in larger groups territorial issues are less likely. - Acheter cette photo libre de droit et découvrir des images similaires sur Adobe Stock They will also accept tablet foods and a good quality flake food. But it does differ in lacking the light stripe on the anterior margin of the pectoral spines. Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake.It is the second-oldest freshwater lake in the world, the second-largest by volume, and the second-deepest, in all cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. S. petricola is one of the two so-far-described species in which the dorsal and pectoral spines are colored white (The other is the new species S. lucipinnis) and all rayed fins have black roughly triangular markings at their base. Ba