Aquarium Care:Good addition to the larger community tank
and will not harass other occupants as long as they
are not too small to be eaten on this catfishes night
time prowls. Provide hiding places for it. Diet:
Will eat most aquarium fare. Males posses a long curved
dorsal, genital papilla and thickened maxillary barbels.
Common
Name:
Fisher's Woodcat
Synonyms:
Parauchenipterus fisheri,
Trachycorystes fisheri
Family:
Auchenipteridae
Distribution:
South America:Atrato basin,
Rio Sucio. Type locality: Río
Sucio, Colombia.
Size:
28.0cm. (11ins)
Temp:
22-26°c (71-79°f.)
p.H.
6.0-7.0.
Reference:
Froese,
R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2009.FishBase.
World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org,
version (01/2011).
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