All assigned numbers: : L038
Name: : Peckoltia sp L038
Common Name : L038
Location : Tocantins River near Para at Mocajuba, Brasil
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Appearance:
Compatibility: Mainly peaceful but can be a little territorial, this can be combated by providing plenty of hiding places and not over crowding. Being smaller in size, these suit many aquariums. They do prefer a sandy sunstrate however they also like to dig in the sand.
Sexing and Breeding: Males develop odontodes on the front pectoral fins whereas females don't. Females are wider across the girth which is easier to see when viewed from above. A Cave spawner.
Diet: An omnivore that leans towards a meatier diet, so the main diet should consist of meaty foods such as frozen foods (tubifex, mosquito larvae, blood worms, artemia), dry foods (freeze-dried foods, flakes, granules), carnivore sinking pellets, and occasionally some small pieces of shrimp, mussels or fish fillet. Once acclimatized, it may also accept vegetable matter such as algae/spirulina disks and fresh vegetables (lettuce, zucchini/courgette, eggplant/aubergine, capsicum, carrot, peas, preboiled spinach).
Water parameters: temperature 25-290C or 77-84F and ph 5.5-7.5
Max Size: approx 10cm / 3.94 inch
Bred by: Not reported to PP, however has been bred overseas in Germany many times.
Additional Comments: Photo thanks to Ingo Seidel Back to Nature.
Further info from www.welsfans.de
updated by bigbird 18apr12
Name: : Peckoltia sp L038
Common Name : L038
Location : Tocantins River near Para at Mocajuba, Brasil
Photos:
Appearance:
Compatibility: Mainly peaceful but can be a little territorial, this can be combated by providing plenty of hiding places and not over crowding. Being smaller in size, these suit many aquariums. They do prefer a sandy sunstrate however they also like to dig in the sand.
Sexing and Breeding: Males develop odontodes on the front pectoral fins whereas females don't. Females are wider across the girth which is easier to see when viewed from above. A Cave spawner.
Diet: An omnivore that leans towards a meatier diet, so the main diet should consist of meaty foods such as frozen foods (tubifex, mosquito larvae, blood worms, artemia), dry foods (freeze-dried foods, flakes, granules), carnivore sinking pellets, and occasionally some small pieces of shrimp, mussels or fish fillet. Once acclimatized, it may also accept vegetable matter such as algae/spirulina disks and fresh vegetables (lettuce, zucchini/courgette, eggplant/aubergine, capsicum, carrot, peas, preboiled spinach).
Water parameters: temperature 25-290C or 77-84F and ph 5.5-7.5
Max Size: approx 10cm / 3.94 inch
Bred by: Not reported to PP, however has been bred overseas in Germany many times.
Additional Comments: Photo thanks to Ingo Seidel Back to Nature.
Further info from www.welsfans.de
updated by bigbird 18apr12
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