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Similar to Pseudancistrus sp. (L122) but has a higher body and a more brownish colouration. Colouration: H. guahiborumcan can be separated from all other Hemiancistrusand all Peckoltia except P. braueri and P. P. cavatica by having an orange edge to the dorsal and caudal fins.Aquarium Care: Good aquarium habitants for a medium to large tank and you can also house more than one species. They like water movement in the aquarium. Diet: Mainly a vegetarian diet but can also be fed tablet foods and frozen and live foods such as mosquito larvae, brine shrimp and shrimps. Etymology: Named for the Guahibo, a tribe of people inhabiting parts of southern Venezuela and western Colombia for the help some members of the tribe provided in collecting specimens in the upper Río Ventuari. Remarks: Hemiancistrus is also known in some literature as Ancistomus but is also similar to the Peckoltia genera but has a longer body and a naked ventral region.

L106, Spotted Orange Seam Pleco

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Loricariidae

South America: Venezuela, middle and upper Orinoco River basin. Type Locality: Venezuela, Amazonas, río Ventuari at raudales Tencua 56 km ESE of San Juan de Manapiare, 05.04968º, -065.62722º.

15.0cm. (6ins)

25-29°c (77-85°f.)

6.0-7.2.

All L-Numbers Datz Special. www.datze.de 
David C. Werneke, Jonathan W. Armbruster, Nathan K. Lujan, and Donald C. Taphorn.  Hemiancistrus guahiborum, a new suckermouth armored catfish from Southern  Venezuela (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) Neotropical Ichthyology, 3 (4):543-548, 2005.