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Reproduction: The Rineloricaria species are usually cave spawners, where the female will place their eggs after the male has cleaned inside. The male will then guard and fan the eggs until hatching. The eggs will hatch in 4-5 days whereas the male can now be removed. More breeding information can be found here in the articles breeding section. Aquarium Care: An easy species to keep with no excessive demands on water parameters. As with all Rineloricaria provide long leaved plants or bamboo stalks for them to hang on to. Diet: Omnivore. Vegetable food such as cucumber and other various foods such as tablet, flake and frozen. Etymology: The specific name hasemanni: in honour of John D. Haseman, the American collector. Remarks: As with most of this genera identification can be problematic unless you know the provenance of the individual species.

Hasemans whiptail catfish

Hemiloricaria hasemani

Loricariidae

South America: Lower Amazon or Tocantins River basin, Brazil. Type Locality: Brazil, Est. Pará, Maguarý near Belém, along the Bragança railroad (Bragança, 1º02'S, 46º46'W), in forest streams.

15.0cm. (6ins)

26-29°c (79-87°f)

6.0-7.5.

Evers, H.-G. & I.Seidel: Mergus, Baensch Catfish Atlas Volume 1, 1st English edn., 2005. Pp.944.
Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.