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Chaetostoma tachiraense Schultz, 1944

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Mark Henry Sabaj (2)

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Aquarium Care: Will need a good water flow in the aquarium with a sand substrate and plenty of hiding places. The Chaetostoma species are not the easiest to maintain as the mountain stream species will need a water current to provide oxygen-rich water. The species that are exported usually originate from warmer waters so are a bit easier to keep than the mountain stream variety. Diet: Great algae eater, but you will have to subsidise this food with algae wafers and vegetable foods such as cucumber, zucchini and lettuce. Will also except tablet and worm foods. Sexual Differences: Males have better colour, a broader head and lips and adult males possess longer ventral fins than the females.

Common Name:

Tachira Chaetostoma

Synonyms:

Chaetostoma tachiraensis

Family:

Loricariidae

Distribution:

South America: Catatumbo river basin in the Lake Maracaibo drainage (up to altitudes between 1,000 and 2,000 m above sea level), Colombia and Venezuela. Type locality: Río Táchira, 7 km. north of San Antonio, Estado de Táchira, Venezuela; the Río Táchira is a tributary of the Río Zulia, Catatumbo system, Maracaibo basin.

Size:

8.5cm. (3¼ins)

Temp:

23-27°c (73-80°f.)

p.H.

6.0-7.5.

Reference:

Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
Fisch-Muller, S., 2003. Loricariidae-Ancistrinae (Armored catfishes). p. 373-400. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2016. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 10/2016 ).
Seidel, I. 2008. Back to Nature guide to L-catfishes, Ettlingen, Germany 208 p.

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Chaetostoma tachiraense

Chaetostoma tachiraense
Dorsal view

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