Aquarium Care:
An easy species to keep with no excessive demands
on water parameters. As with all Rineloricaria
provide long leaved plants or bamboo stalks for them
to hang on to. Diet: Omnivore. Vegetable
food such as cucumber and other various foods such
as tablet, flake and frozen. Remarks:
As with most of this genera identification can be
problematic unless you know the provenance of the
individual species.
Common
Name:
Hasemans whiptail catfish
Synonyms:
Hemiloricaria hasemani
Family:
Loricariidae
Distribution:
South America:
Lower Amazon or Tocantins River basin, Brazil.
Type Locality: Brazil, Est. Pará,
Maguarý near Belém, along the Bragança
railroad (Bragança, 1º02'S, 46º46'W),
in forest streams.
Size:
15.0cm. (6ins)
Temp:
26-29°c (79-87°f)
p.H.
6.0-7.5.
Reference:
Evers, H.-G. &
I.Seidel: Mergus,
Baensch Catfish Atlas Volume 1, 1st English edn.,
2005. Pp.944. Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist
of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes),
and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa
1418:1-628.
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