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One of the smallest Hypancistrus. Habitat: It also has a very limited distribution, and is only known from a few deep water pools downstream from Altamira, Rio Xingu, Brazil. Description: Can be identified by the overall spots and blotches weaving into a reticulated pattern. Similar to the Panaque/Panaqolus and Peckoltia genera but have fewer and larger teeth in the lower and upper jaw. Sexual Differences: Males posses a broader and longer head and odontodes on the posterior part of the body, behind the gill covers and on the pectoral fin spines. The latter two are a lot shorter in the females. Aquarium Care: No problem with keeping in groups but only one Hypancistrus species to a tank as there has been reports of hybridisation. Diet: Omnivores, juveniles are keen on vegetable foods whereas adults are less so. Frozen foods such as brine shrimp, mosquito larvae and mussels as well as tablet foods. Remarks: This is one of the smaller species in this genera and there is, at the moment, a ban on the export of this species to the hobby so it would need to be kept by L-number specialists with the intention of propagating them.

L174, Ozelot Pleco

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Loricariidae

Brazil: Pará, Rio Xingu (Altamira-Belo Monte).

8.0cm. (3¼ins)

26-30°c (79-87°f.)

6.0-7.2.

Seidel, I. 2008. Back to Nature guide to L-catfishes, Ettlingen, Germany 208 p.
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