Threadfin Acara | 水產百科網

Remarks

Best kept as a group in a large aquarium. Territorial when breeding

Care

The Threadfin Acara is known from northern parts of the Amazon basin in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, including the lower Rio Branco, Rio Capim, Rio Negro, Rio Putumayo, Rio Trombetas, and Rio Xingu, along with the Essequibo River drainage in Guyana. The aquarium should be biologically mature and spacious, with a large expanse of soft sand substrate as these fish like to sift through the substrate in their ongoing search for food items. Provide plenty of hiding places and visual barriers amongst tangles of driftwood, rocky caves, and robust planting cultivated on the wood (such as Anubias sp. or Java Fern). Vegetation planted into the substrate is likely to be dug up, so is best avoided. Filtration should be efficient with areas of moderate water movement and some calmer resting spots out of the current. Frequent partial water changes will help keep nitrate to a ...