Killifish, Rainbowfish, and Medaka
Tanganyika Lampeye
Lamprichthys tanganicanus
Photo: Pass3456 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature24–27 °C
- pH7.8–9
- Minimum tank400 l
- Adult size15 cm
- Difficulty★★★☆☆
- Lives in a groupof 8 or more
- TemperamentPeaceful
- WaterFresh
Full profile
- Family
- Procatopodidae
- Origin
- Lake Tanganyika
- Size
- 15 cm
- Temperature
- 24 – 27°C
- pH
- 7.8 – 9.0
- GH
- 10 – 20 °dGH
- Difficulty
- ★★★☆☆
- Water type
- tropical freshwater (hard and alkaline)
- Swimming level
- medium – high
- Behavior
- Pacific
- Minimum number of individuals
- 8
- Minimum aquarium size
- 400 L
- Diet
- carnivore (zooplankton)
- Reproduction
- oviparous; lays eggs in rock crevices
Notes: The largest killifish, with silvery-blue scales. An ideal schooling fish for the upper zone of a Tanganyika aquarium.
