Panaque albomaculatus
| Common Names: | LDA31 Orange Spot Pleco |
| Synonyms: | Panaqolus albomaculatus |
| Family: | Loricariidae |
| Category: | Catfish_Bottom_Feeders |
| Distribution: | America - South; Ecuador and Peru |
| Main Ecosystem: | River; They can be found in several rivers. |
| Temperament: | Peaceful; They are generally peaceful, though they will become territorial towards other Loricariids if not given enough space. |
| Diet: | Ominvore; They prefer sinking pellets, live foods, and vegetable roughage. Driftwood should be present, and will be injested, though not necessary. |
| Care: | They are relatively hardy catfish that are similar to most plecos in care. They like to be kept in tanks with driftwood or bogwood, and they prefer to have quite a few hiding spaces. |
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| Potential Size: | Male: 13cm (5.1") Female: 13cm (5.1") |
| Water Region: | Bottom; Bottom |
| Activity: | Nocturnal; They come out mostly at night. |
| Gender: | Mature males of this species develop long interopercular spines and furry, hair-fine body denticles. |
| Breeding: | Breeding is unreported in home aquaria. |
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| Comments: | With the recent focus towards Peruvian species, they are becoming more readily accessible. Provided with reasonable parameters, they make great community fish. However, as with all loricariids, they have the tendency to be fairly territorial towards conspecifics and similar ancistrinids, and can do serious damage to one another. So long as one eye is kept on the well being of your fish every so often, things should pass with very little incident, though. In 2001, Isbrücker erected the genus “p |
| Main Colours: | Black, Orange, Brown |
| Markings: | Spots Small |
| Mouth: | Sucking Disc |
| Tail: | Concave |
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| Submitted By: | sirbooks |
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