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Someone more information about rineloricaria sp. rio Paraguay?
I know that they are mouthbreeders, but what about temperature and feeding?

Hi,

it's the first time that I hear that a Rineloricaria sp. should be a mouthbreeder.
AFAIK they are all cave/tube/substrate breeders.

Are you sure that you are talking about Rineloricaria or do you mean Loricaria ?!

Cheers,

Thats how they been called on the stocklist by Wholesale en shop

Yes, they are mouthbrooders but with green eggs. They spawn like but low on the glass. I keep them in an unheated tank in my fishroom, about 72-74F. They eat all foods and are hardy; the fry are REALLY hard to raise.



Jools

Hi,

the genera can be distiguished fairly easily if you look at the mouth.


Loricaria nickeriensis


Hemiloricaria/Rineloricaria sp.

Loricaria spp. have long extensions of their lip. as yours also have.

Cheers,

Thanks for the replies.

But this specie is not on PCF?

Jools wrote:Yes, they are mouthbrooders but with green eggs. They spawn like

Sturisoma

but low on the glass. I keep them in an unheated tank in my fishroom, about 72-74F. They eat all foods and are hardy; the fry are REALLY hard to raise.

Jools

In the store I bought them the male was taking them over the sand and the eggs were yellow

Jools wrote: the fry are REALLY hard to raise.Jools

After 24 hrs their yolk sac disapere and they start eating novotabs from JBL, and after nearly a week they still live

Jools wrote:Yes, they are mouthbrooders but with green eggs. They spawn like

Sturisoma

but low on the glass. I keep them in an unheated tank in my fishroom, about 72-74F. They eat all foods and are hardy; the fry are REALLY hard to raise.

Please ignore what I said above, I was talking about my species from Uruguay and not Paraguay - how easy confusion happens!

Jools

This could be or one of the other 3 described species from the area. We'd need a lot more pictures....

Jools

I agree with @Jools, as it looks like there may possibly be two species or at least two collection locations in that one picture to me...

males in the middle










left male, right female








head of female


youngster 1,5 cm




youngster 4,5 cm



Enough pictures?