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(Other members of the genus Pseudoplatystoma)
ADULT SIZE: 50 cm
WATER CONDITIONS: Not critical
TEMPERATURE RANGE: 23-27 C
FOOD: Feed Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum live foods and small fish
DISTRIBUTION: This species comes from Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela, Surinam
AQUARIUM CARE: Tiger shovelnoses are a very large fish, and not really suitable for the home aquarium. They can reach a metre long in the wild, and eat anything that they can fit in their mouths. In public aquariums, they are well suited to an Amazon tank with larger species, red tailed catfish, arowana, and pacu.
BREEDING: Unknown
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Other members of the genus Pseudoplatystoma
Other catfish species
Tiger shovelnose catfish are simply too big for home aquariums
BREEDING: Unknown
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Sorry no records.
Give your fish a treat! Flaked fish foods are excellent nutritionally, but most fish really enjoy tucking into live, or frozen live foods. Insect larvae such as bloodworms can be collected in summertime from your water barrel, but it is also very worthwhile to attempt to culture Daphnia or white worms for a free food source absolutely relished by aquarium fish. Frozen bloodworm are almost as good and are widely available, though freeze dried live foods tend not to go down as well. See more on feeding fish
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