Buy tropical fish online - Tropical Fish Secrets Care: Pretty hardy and undemanding,
Tropical Fish Secrets Care: Pretty hardy and undemanding, pH of 6.5-7.4 but closer to neutral. Temperature of 72-78. Prefers soft waters, and a shoal of at least 7 in my opinion. Be sure not to house with larger or more aggressive fish, and add some bog or driftwood into the tank. And will appreciate a fine gravel or sand substrate. Feeding: Usually not to picky about foods. Brine shrimp, blood/tubifex worms, flakes, shrimp pellets, and catfish pellets or wafers. Sexing and breeding: Females tend to be a tad wider. Breeding occurs in shoals, eggs are laid on plants. Comments: Very peaceful (like all cory’s). Will swim to low mid levels of the tank and very active. Wonderful community fish to have (in my opinion they’re better and more fun to have than normal cory’s). Some have a very low subdued metallic shine on their body while some have a very bright shine. Common name(s): Red-tailed catfish, Amazonian red-tailed catfish. Scientific name: Phractocephalus hemiliopterus Family: Pimelodidae Origin: Parts of the amazon including deeper waters through to the flooded forest in the rainy season. Maximum size: Difficult to say the max size of these fish as it changes so much. In the wild there are reports that 6-8′ cats have been caught but 5′ is more common. In captivity however, 4′ is a god size with a lot staying at 3 , a lot of public aquaria have them to 3.5′ - 4′ some may have larger. Care: As far as tropical fish go, they are actually quite a hardy fish and will adapt to captive conditions well as long as a large well filtered aquarium is provided. Eventually they will require a tank/pond of 10′x4′x4′ min but larger the better for these fish. As they grow they are best started in small 36″ tanks when 2″ long and moved up to 4′ then 6′ tanks and then up to a pond. As for water chemistry, anything between Ph6.5-7.5 and a temperature of 25-30C is fine. To keep nitrates down twice weekly water changes may be required. Feeding: While they’re small (2″-6″) they are fine on bloodworm, chopped cockle and small pieces of lance fish/smelt daily or every other day. Once they get to 8″12″ they should take whole lance fish/smelt twice a week. Once they hit 12″ bits of trout are best and fed once a week. I also add vitamins with this as mine won’t touch any green foods. Breeding: Never bred in captivity although we are starting to see red-tail/tiger shovelnose hybrids coming into the shops which IMHO are wrong. This is most likely done using hormones. Comments: This is not a good aquarium fish unless you have a fish house or are can build a huge tank in your home with an equally large filter to match. They should be left to public aquaria IMO. Never leave objects near the aquarium as anything they can swallow will be eaten. In the past, they have eaten cameras, sunglasses and mobile phobes not to mention tank mates. This is a beautiful fish if kept properly. Common name: Rubbernose Pleco / Bulldog Pleco / Rubberlip Pleco Scientific name: Chaetostoma Milesi
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