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Description: Snout with a wide naked margin, evertible interopercular odontodes hook-like; presence of long, forked tentacles on the snout of males; numerous small, well defined spots on body with bright orange colour. Habitat: Their habitat consists of of small to medium-sized forest creeks with moderate current and a sandy or rocky bottom. Aquarium Care: As with most of this genus it will do well in an aquarium where it will wipe out any algae. Diet: Feed vegetable foods such as lettuce, cucumber and courgette (zucchini). Will eat most aquarium fare. 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. Remarks: Very rarely imported, however individuals of the so-called Ancistrus cf. cirrhosus, a fish of which the origin is unknown, are often sold as A. temminckii. The difference between the two species is that that A. temminckii has a dark spot at the base of its dorsal fin, between the first and the second ray. Etymology: The specific name temminkii: In honour of C. Temminck, the Dutch physician.

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Hypostomus temminckii, Plecostomus aculeatus

Loricariidae

South America: Saramacca, Suriname, and Maroni River basins. Type locality: Suriname.

10.0cm (4ins)

23-27°c (73-81°f.)

6.0-7.5.

Mol, H.A. Jan, The Freshwater Fishes of Suriname. BRILL, Leiden Boston, 2012. 889 p.