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Hudson Crizanto Gonçalves (3) Pier Aquatics (2)

Aquarium Care: Not the easiest species to maintain in the aquarium as it will need pristine water conditions with well filtered water which should not be too hard. Warm water should be the norm. Adult males are very territorial and will not get on with other large Loricariid catfish. Sexual Differences: The length of the male snout bristles might be related with the hierarchic level of the individual within the population. Males have a broad head and posses long bristles along the edge of the snout. Diet: Aufwuch grazer, mainly vegetarian, with lettuce, spinach, cucumber and courgette (zucchini), vegetarian flake and tablets. Will eat other foods also such as insect larvae, zooplankton and soft wood but will need to be kept on a mainly green diet. Etymology: The specific name genisetiger: génys, jaw (usually the cheek or lower jaw in ichthyology); seta or saeta (L.), hair or bristle; –iger (L.), to have or bear, referring to prominent bristles on interopercle and lower margin of head.

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Loricariidae

South America: Jaguaribe River basin, Brazil. Type locality: Rio Jaguaribe, Orós, Ceará [Brazil].

20.0cm. (8ins)

26-30°c (79-87°f)

6.0-7.0.

Armbruster, J.W., 2004. Pseudancistrus sidereus, a new species from southern Venezuela (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with a redescription of Pseudancistrus. Zootaxa 628:1-15.
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 08/2022 ).
Seidel, I. 2008. Back to Nature guide to L-catfishes, Ettlingen, Germany 208 p.