Feeding and reproductive biology of Farlowella vittata

[racoll]

García-Alzate et al. 2012. Biología alimentaria y reproductiva de

Farlowella vittata

(Siluriformes: Loricariidae) en la cuenca del río Güejar, Orinoquía, Colombia. Rev. Biol. Trop. 60(4):1873-1888.

Article in Spanish, but abstract in English. Thanks to twitter.com/SeriouslyFish for spotting this.

[bekateen]

The link above for this paper appears to be broken. Here are active links to the web page and pdf file of this paper:

http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?scri ... 2000400038

http://www.scielo.sa.cr/pdf/rbt/v60n4/a38v60n4.pdf

[Mol_PMB]

Ill have to have a read of this and see if my twiglets are doing it right ;)

I'm getting over-run with them at the moment.

[dw1305]

Hi all,
I wonder how the quoted dissolved oxygen levels were measured? They seem really low (you can't estimate %DO without a known temperature), but it is going to be less than 25% saturation during high water.

Dissolved oxygen values were 6.2mg/L during low water and 2.7mg/L during high water phase.

cheers Darrel

[bekateen]

Hi all,
I wonder how the quoted dissolved oxygen levels were measured? They seem really low (you can't estimate %DO without a known temperature), but it is going to be less than 25% saturation during high water.

Dissolved oxygen values were 6.2mg/L during low water and 2.7mg/L during high water phase.

cheers Darrel

Time to brush up on your Spanish!

Cheers, Eric

[Mol_PMB]

Mine became sexually mature at a much smaller size than their observations (<100mm SL both sexes).
I have fed mostly algae, but also phytoplankton (nannochloropsis) and 'zooplankton' (in the form of microworms and BBS) which they seem to enjoy.

[Mol_PMB]

Sort of on-topic, I came down this morning to find this:

Farlowella vittata, 14-month old pair spawning

and this:

Farlowella vittata, adult male guarding new spawn