Description:
This in my opinion is one of the most difficultwhiptail speciesto identify with any great
certainty as being easy to breed they are abundant
in fish show and club auctions and are just sold as
Rineloricaria sp., they could be anyone
of half a dozen species or even crosses between two
close species as a few of them have the cross banding
on the body area but in the main R. parva should
have double extensions to the caudal lobes. Reproduction:
Provide caves or pipework where the females will lay
their eggs as in the wild they are laid in hollow
logs or branches. The male takes over the guarding
of the green coloured eggs and they hatch, depending
on water temperature, between 3 and 10 days. Aquarium
Care: An easy species to keep with no excessive
demands on water parameters. Diet:
Omnivore. Vegetable food such as cucumber and other
various foods such as tablet, flake and frozen. Remarks:
The Loricariinae sp. LG06 which has been around in
the hobby and has also been bred is now been mooted
as being R. parva. Still seen on some online
searches as Hemiloricaria parva.
Common
Name:
Common Whiptail Catfish, LG06
Synonyms:
Loricaria parva, Hemiloricaria
parva
Family:
Loricariidae
Distribution:
South America:
Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay: Paraguay River basin.
Type locality: Descalvados, Matto
Grosso Brazil.
Size:
12.5cm. (5ins)
Temp:
23-26°c (73-79°f)
p.H.
6.5-7.5.
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. ScotCat
Factsheet no.69.
March 2002.
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