Familie: Balitoridae
Gastromyzon farragus ist ein Bachschmerle aus Borneo. Länge 2.9–4.3 cm, Temperatur 19–23 °C.
Gastromyzon farragus, a member of the family Balitoridae, comes from Borneo, where it inhabits fast-flowing mountain streams, clinging to rocks. Calm but assertive around its chosen perch and grazes rock surfaces; feed spirulina-rich foods, it grows to 2.9–4.3 cm and adapts well to a properly set-up aquarium in the 19–23 °C range. Other Gastromyzon species in our database include Gastromyzon ctenocephalus, Gastromyzon punctulatus, Gastromyzon scitulus.
Mittleres Niveau: stabiles Wasser steht an erster Stelle. Calm but assertive around its chosen perch. Singly or in a loose group on open rockwork.
Ideal sind 19–23 °C ohne starke Schwankungen.
Ausgewachsen 2.9–4.3 cm. Wegen seiner Lebensweise (Bottom-dwelling) sind 25 L oder mehr sinnvoll.
Grazes rock surfaces; feed spirulina-rich foods. Es wühlt in bare rock and coarse gravel — lass etwas Futter den Boden erreichen.
Calm but assertive around its chosen perch. Empfohlene Mitbewohner: Other cool-water stream fish — Share the need for oxygen and flow. Meide Large aggressive cichlids — Disrupt the calm grazing regime.
Stammt aus Borneo; lebt in fast-flowing mountain streams, clinging to rocks. Very strong, highly oxygenated current; requires very high dissolved oxygen.
Spawning unknown in home aquaria. Difficult to distinguish.