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  • Girardinus caudimaculatus / Hensel, 1868

 

   Basic data:

 

  • Scientific name:  Phalloceros caudimaculatus  (Hensel, 1868)

  • Slovenian name: Spotted Gambuzija, Leopard fish

  • Group: Livebirds

  • Origin: According to Lucindi (2008), its natural area includes the Lagos dos Patos system, the Uruguayan rio, the Tramandaí rio and the Mampituba rio and the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, plus the coastal system of Uruguay and Argentina.

  • Size: Males: 3.5 cm, females: up to 7 cm

  • Biotope / Habitat : Found in heavily overgrown streams, slow-flowing rivers and ponds

  • Social behavior: It is best to have it in your aquarium

  • Diet: Omnivores (worms, insects, insect larvae, crustaceans, flakes, algae, dry food), a necessary addition to plant foods.

  • Cultivation: Easy

  • Aquarium: Minimum 50 liters

  • Population: trio in 50 liters of water

  • Decoration: Plants, stones, roots

  • Temperature: 16-24 ° C

  • pH: 7-8

  • Hardness: from 8 ° dGh to 20 ° dGh

  • Life span: 

  • Synonymous

Akvarijske živorodke, kirwood, Phalloceros caudimaculatus - pegasta gambuzija
Akvarijske živorodke, kirwood, Phalloceros caudimaculatus - pegasta gambuzija

Kingdom: Animalia / animals

Trunk: Chordata / string players

Class: Actinopterygii / arthropods

Order: Cyprinodontiformes / Toothpicks

Family: Poeciliidae  / live-bearing toothed carp

Genus: Phalloceros

Species: Phalloceros caudimaculatus

(Hensel, 1868)

Phalloceros caudimaculatus

Spotted gambusia

Akvarijske ribe - živorodke, kirwood, Phalloceros caudimaculatus - pegasta gambuzija

Cultivation

  Gambusia is grown in our (species) aquarium because it needs a slightly lower temperature than most other fish.

Prepare the aquarium with fine gravel and lush vegetation, floating plants on the surface, water lentils will be right.

Gambusia does not like fresh water, so be careful when changing, otherwise very tolerant fish in terms of parameters.

Food

  It is an omnivore, little by little it is best not to forget the source of plant food, if there is a lack of plant food Gambusia can tackle plants.

Reproduction

  Males are tireless in courting and so let’s have three to five females per male.

The female gives birth after 24 days  up to 100 pups, the number of pups determines the size and age of the female.

Puppies often curl up fall among the gravel and rest there for a while before floating, there’s nothing wrong with that.

We feed the young with nauplii artemia and microvessels.

 

 

 

Interesting

  Gambusia has been relied on in more parts of the world as a mosquito repellent and so it inhabits today  Australia, New  Zealand, Ethiopia  in Malawi.

 

 

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