Tetras and Characids
Redhook Silver Dollar
Myloplus rubripinnis
Photo: Mattia Nocciola · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature24–28 °C
- pH5.5–7.5
- Minimum tank600 l
- Adult size30 cm
- Difficulty★★☆☆☆
- Lives in a groupof 5 or more
- TemperamentPeaceful
- WaterFresh
Full profile
- Family
- Serrasalmidae
- Origin
- Amazon and Orinoco Basins
- Size
- 30 cm
- Temperature
- 24 – 28°C
- pH
- 5.5 – 7.5
- GH
- 2 – 15 °dGH
- Difficulty
- ★★☆☆☆
- Water type
- tropical freshwater
- Swimming level
- medium
- Behavior
- Peaceful (eats plants)
- Minimum number of individuals
- 5
- Minimum aquarium size
- 600 L
- Diet
- herbivore
- Reproduction
- oviparous
Notes: Silver in color, with a hook-shaped red anal fin in males. Always kept in groups and in large aquariums without soft plants.
