The female lays the eggs on a surface during the night and the male fertilizes them. The male then stays near the eggs to protect them from predators to and ensure fungus does not grow on the eggs. By day 3 the fry can be seen moving within the eggs and by day 5 the fry are clearly visible as fish.
By day 6 the eggs start to hatch and all have hatched by day 9. The fry are very small, and because this catfish is a limnovore, in an aquarium the fry need a well planted set up in order to get the amount of algae needed for survival and growth.
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^Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2011). "Farlowella vittata" in FishBase. December 2011 version.
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farlowella, vittata, species, armored, catfish, native, orinoco, river, basin, colombia, venezuela, this, species, grows, length, centimetres, scientific, classification, domain, eukaryota, kingdom, animalia, phylum, chordata, class, actinopterygii, order, sil. Farlowella vittata is a species of armored catfish native to the Orinoco River basin of Colombia and Venezuela This species grows to a length of 22 5 centimetres 8 9 in SL 1 Farlowella vittata Scientific classification Domain Eukaryota Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Actinopterygii Order Siluriformes Family Loricariidae Genus Farlowella Species F vittata Binomial name Farlowella vittataG S Myers 1942Breeding editThe female lays the eggs on a surface during the night and the male fertilizes them The male then stays near the eggs to protect them from predators to and ensure fungus does not grow on the eggs By day 3 the fry can be seen moving within the eggs and by day 5 the fry are clearly visible as fish By day 6 the eggs start to hatch and all have hatched by day 9 The fry are very small and because this catfish is a limnovore in an aquarium the fry need a well planted set up in order to get the amount of algae needed for survival and growth References edit Froese Rainer Pauly Daniel eds 2011 Farlowella vittata in FishBase December 2011 version nbsp This article relating to Loricariinae is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Farlowella vittata amp oldid 1219130948, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
