Fish Information (Characins)
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Hemigrammus ulreyi
Family:  Characidaehyph_urleyi.jpg (20086 bytes)
Continent:  South America
Distribution:  Paraguay
Habitat:  rivers & streams
Food:  small live food and flake food etc.
Water Temperature:  23-27°C
Water Chemistry:  soft, acidic water preferred but will  tolerate slight variations.
FBAS Size:  45mm
FBAS Class:  C
Additional Information: This fish always shows well and it grows to size easily. It is peaceful and will eat any type of aquarium foods.

Nannostomus espei (Barred Pencilfish)
Family:  Lebiasinidae
Continent:  South America
Distribution:  Import from Guyana
Habitat:  rivers & streams
Food:  small live food and flake food etc.
Water Temperature:  22-27°C
Water Chemistry:  soft, acidic water preferred but will  tolerate slight variations.
FBAS Size:  40mm
FBAS Class:  C
Additional Information: Imported size 20mm, One of the smaller pencilfish, rarely imported because of its location. The colour markings ‘barring’ is a character that all pencilfish share at night when their horizontal stripes fade and vertical bars come in! however in the espei they are permanent (and don’t change to horizontal stripes!) Images & text by Robbie Kirkup

Nematobrycon lacortei (Rainbow Emperor Tetra)
Family:  Characidae namatobrycon_lacortei).jpg (14580 bytes)
Continent:  South America
Distribution:  San Juan River
Habitat:  river & streams
Food:  small live food and flake food etc.
Water Temperature:  22-28°C
Water Chemistry:  soft, acidic water preferred but will  tolerate slight variations.
FBAS Size:  60mm
FBAS Class:  C
Additional Information: A tank bred import, at size 25mm, A continuous egg scatter from Columbia, was once very common, but now have to be sourced out from supplies who are never sure how to tell them apart from the other emperor tetra found in Columbia ‘N. palmeri’. When mature the fish are a marbled blue green, the male's eyes are red while the ‘palmeri’ emperors are blue.
Images & text by Robbie Kirkup

Neolebias ansorgi (Ansorges Emerald Tetra) 
Family:  Citharinidaeneolebias_ansorgi.jpg (14010 bytes)
Continent:  South America
Distribution:  import from Cameroon
Habitat:  rivers & streams
Food:  small live food and flake food etc.
Water Temperature:  24-28°C
Water Chemistry:  soft, acidic water preferred but will  tolerate slight variations.
FBAS Size:  35mm
FBAS Class:  C
Additional Information: Imported size 20mm. Ideal tank companion for the popular galaxy rasbora? And for the popular nano aquariums which are now big sellers!
Image & text by Robbie Kirkup

Piabucina astrigata
Family:   Lebiasindaepiabucina_astrigata.jpg (17176 bytes)
Synonyms:  Lebiasina astrigata
Continent:  South America
Distribution:  Northern Ecuador & Southern Columbia
Habitat:
Food:  invertebrates,  will eat flake food etc.
Water Temperature:  22-26°C
Water Chemistry:  soft, acidic water preferred but will  tolerate slight variations.
FBAS Size:  100mm
FBAS Class:  C
Additional Information: Import from Columbia (shipped in with anomola pencils). Can be confused with Lebiasina multimaculata (12 spots on each body side). Body shape is more like a minnow than a pencil/tetra so this may trip you up.
Image & Text by Robbie Kirkup. See article for more details

Pyrrhulina spilota (Blotched Pyrrhulina)
Family:   Lebiasindaepirhulina-spilota.jpg (11905 bytes)
Continent:  South America
Distribution:  
Habitat:
Food:  invertebrates,  will eat flake food etc.
Water Temperature:  23-26°C
Water Chemistry:  soft, acidic water preferred but will  tolerate slight variations.
FBAS Size:  60mm
FBAS Class:  C
Additional Information: