Freshwater
Narrowfront tandan
Neosilurus ater
Plotosidae
Facts
Characteristics
- Length
- Up to 47 cm
- Body shape
- Elongated
Care
- Group
- Missing
- Smallest aquarium
- 2,266 liters
- Diet
- Missing
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Behavior
Water values
Smallest tank
Range
More about the species
Description
Found in rivers and smaller streams, usually where currents are relatively swift. Also lives in still or gently flowing water of pools and side channels. A solitary species. Feed on mollusks, insects, prawns crustaceans and worms. Spawning period coincides with the rise of the monsoonal floods. Adults migrate upstream into shallow riffle zones where they spawn in pairs. The demersal eggs lodge in crevices on the bottom and hatch 2-3 days later.
Other names
Other scientific names
- Lambertia atra
- Lambertichthys ater sepikensis
- Neosilurus ater sepikensis
- Neosilurus mediobarbis
- Tandanus ater
In other languages
- Pikitandani
- Black catfish, Butter jew, Narrow-fronted catfish, Narrow-fronted tandan
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