Farlowella acus | 水產百科網

Farlowellaacus(Kner,1853)·Characteristics.D1/6;A1-5;P1/5-6;V1/4-5;33-34bonyscutesinalateralseries.·Colour.Olive-greentoyellow-brown,underside ...

he common name of "Twig Catfish" certainly sums up this member of the Loricariidae family as one look at the picture shows an animal reassembling a twig or stick and it is now sadly a forgotten "pleco" with the onslaught of the L-numbers in the last 10 years or so relegating this once sought after catfish to the memories of yesteryear.

Farlowella acus

The genus name of Farlowella is named in honour of William Gibson Farlow the famous American botanist of the last century, and the beginning of the 21st, whos main work was actually working with algae plants which brings us to the one of the most favourite foods of this slender catfish "algae". It is quite difficult to get a right balance in feeding this species as greens are predomina...