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Aquarium Care: The Ancistrus genera make good community fish where they do not grow too big for the aquarium. Some species have different requirements in the aquarium so best to read up on the species you have whereas if they need higher oxygen requirements or not, or if they prefer cooler waters if they originate from the southern parts of South America against the species from further up north. Diet: Vegetable foods such as cucumber and courgette and also tablet and meaty foods. Reproduction: The female lays her eggs in caves or crevices... that the male has chosen and cleaned.... as a cluster. The male usually then guards the eggs after ejecting the female. The fry then cling to the sides of the cave and when they use up their yolk sac, which is around the four to seven day period, they will be ready to feed on infusuria, vegetable matter, brine shrimp naupli or micro worms. In a community tank a few will survive if enough hiding places are afforded to them. Etymology: The specific name marcapatae: Named for the type locality of this Ancistrus; Marcapata Valley, E. Peru. Remarks: First described as Chaetostomus marcapatae by Regan and this name is still listed on some online searches as this species but named correctly as an Ancistrus by Lujan et al 2015 and also listed as valid on Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes database.

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Chaetostomus marcapatae

Loricariidae

Peru: Inambari River basin in the Madeira River drainage. Type locality: Marcapata Valley, E. Peru.

10.0cm. (4ins)

22-27°c (71-81°f.)

6.0-7.2.

Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
Lujan, N. K., V. Meza-Vargas, V. Astudillo-Clavijo, R. Barriga-Salazar and H. López-Fernández 2015 (25 Sept.) A multilocus molecular phylogeny for Chaetostoma clade genera and species with a review of Chaetostoma (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the central Andes. Copeia 103 (no. 3): 664-701.