Aquarium Care:
Best kept in groups in a large aquarium as they will
not do well singularly. Avoid boisterous or aggressive
tankmates as this is a shy species that will hide
out during the day and appear for food at night under
darkness. Provide a dimly lit tank with floating plants.
Diet: Tubifex, Daphnia,
Cyclops. Once settled in they will take frozen
foods, flake and tablet foods.
Common
Name:
None
Synonyms:
Opsodoras hemipeltis
Family:
Doradidae
Distribution:
South America:
Amazon River basin. Type locality:
Rio Ucayali at Contamana.
Size:
16.0cm. (6¼ins)
Temp:
23-28°C (73-83°F)
p.H.
6.0-7.0.
Reference:
Ferraris, C.J. Jr.,
2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes:
Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary
types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628. Froese, R. and D. Pauly.
Editors. 2020. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic
publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 12/2020 ). Sabaj, M.H. and C.J. Ferraris Jr.,
2003. Doradidae (Thorny catfishes). p. 456-469. In
R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.)
Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central
America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.
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