All assigned numbers: L206, LDA26
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Location: Rio Ucayali river system in Peru
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Compatibility: Peaceful and unproblematic fish, suitable for community tanks and show tanks with easy to stress fish like Discus or Angel Fish, as well as other bottom-dwelling fish. May become a bit pushy during feeding time, or if not enough hiding places are offered, but if the tank is properly aquascaped it is not aggressive, even towards its own kind.
Sexing and Breeding: Mature, breedable males have quite a lot of odontode growth on the body and pectoral fin ray
Diet: This is a wood-eating catfish, like all species from the genus Panaque (including those known as Panaqolus) and Cochliodon. Therefore, a good supply of bog wood is necessary in the tank: not only does this fish extracts certain elements and nutrients from the organic layer which forms on the wood over time (also known as "Aufwuchs"), it actually eats the wood itself, possibly for digestive reasons. As wood does is not very rich in nutrients, it means the L206 consumes vast amounts of it, and produces an almost equal amount of waste (because of which a very strong filtration system is an absolute necessity).
Besides wood, the diet can be supplemented with vegetable matter (cucumber, lettuce, egg plant/aubergine, zucchini/courgette, etc. as well as algae and catfish pellets) and meaty foods like shrimp and pieces of fish fillet.
Water parameters: Temp 25-29c PH 6-7.8
Max Size: 8cms
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Name:
Location: Rio Ucayali river system in Peru
Photos:
Appearance:
Compatibility: Peaceful and unproblematic fish, suitable for community tanks and show tanks with easy to stress fish like Discus or Angel Fish, as well as other bottom-dwelling fish. May become a bit pushy during feeding time, or if not enough hiding places are offered, but if the tank is properly aquascaped it is not aggressive, even towards its own kind.
Sexing and Breeding: Mature, breedable males have quite a lot of odontode growth on the body and pectoral fin ray
Diet: This is a wood-eating catfish, like all species from the genus Panaque (including those known as Panaqolus) and Cochliodon. Therefore, a good supply of bog wood is necessary in the tank: not only does this fish extracts certain elements and nutrients from the organic layer which forms on the wood over time (also known as "Aufwuchs"), it actually eats the wood itself, possibly for digestive reasons. As wood does is not very rich in nutrients, it means the L206 consumes vast amounts of it, and produces an almost equal amount of waste (because of which a very strong filtration system is an absolute necessity).
Besides wood, the diet can be supplemented with vegetable matter (cucumber, lettuce, egg plant/aubergine, zucchini/courgette, etc. as well as algae and catfish pellets) and meaty foods like shrimp and pieces of fish fillet.
Water parameters: Temp 25-29c PH 6-7.8
Max Size: 8cms
Bred by:
Additional Comments: