Rasboras, danios, and barbs
Flying Fox
Epalzeorhynchos kalopterus
Photo: Autor desconocido · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature24–26 °C
- pH6–7.5
- Minimum tank150 l
- Adult size16 cm
- Difficulty★★☆☆☆
- TemperamentSemi-aggressive
- WaterFresh
Full profile
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Origin
- Sumatra and Borneo
- Size
- 16 cm
- Temperature
- 24 – 26°C
- pH
- 6.0 – 7.5
- GH
- 4 – 15 °dGH
- Difficulty
- ★★☆☆☆
- Water type
- tropical freshwater
- Swimming level
- low – medium
- Behavior
- semi-aggressive (territorial toward its own species)
- Minimum number of individuals
- 1
- Minimum aquarium size
- 150 L
- Diet
- omnivore (algae)
- Reproduction
- oviparous
Notes: Black lateral stripe with a gold border and fins with black and white edges. It is often confused with the Siamese algae eater, but it eats less algae.
