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Active, peaceful schooler; keep eight or more and avoid very boisterous tankmates.
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Active, peaceful schooler; keep eight or more and avoid very boisterous tankmates.
Flakes, micro pellets and frozen or live daphnia and brine shrimp.
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Adult males are noticeably slimmer and more colourful, especially in the unpaired and pelvic fins; the dorsal fin of a breeding male is red with a black margin and rows of black spots.
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Egg-scatterer · Moderate
Egg-scattering free spawner with no parental care; bred in a separate, very dimly lit tank with mesh, marbles or fine-leaved plants, slightly acidic to neutral water at the warm end of its range; adults eat the eggs.
Keep a group of 6-8 and condition them with live and frozen foods; choose the fattest female and the most colourful males. A trio (1 male, 2 females) also works.
20-40 L bare tank with a mesh grid or a layer of marbles over the floor, java moss or spawning mops, a gentle sponge filter and water at 24-26 C.
Heavy feeding for 2 weeks, then a cooler (about 2 C) water change and morning sun or a bright light.
Eggs hatch in 24-48 hours; fry free-swimming about 24 hours later. No egg count found.
Infusoria, then newly hatched brine shrimp and microworms.
A small, peaceful barb from north-eastern India, Myanmar, Thailand and Laos with a black blotch behind the gill cover and another on the tail base. It is often confused with Pethia ticto. It tolerates fairly cool water (from 18 °C) and is rated easy to keep.
British zoologist Francis Day described Stoliczka's barb in 1871 and named it after Ferdinand Stoliczka, who worked for the Geological Survey of India. It resembles the ticto barb and was once regarded as part of that species. Much of the aquarium stock is now captive-bred.
First described by Francis Day in 1871. Named for Named after Czech-born naturalist Ferdinand Stoliczka.
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Often confused with Pethia ticto in the literature (ticto has an incomplete lateral line). The Mandalay form is sometimes sold as Puntius sp. 'pearlscale'. Older spelling P. stoliczkanus.
Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Pethia stoliczkana · FishBase: Pethia stoliczkana summaryLegacy has no family; sourced value recorded.
FishBase: Pethia stoliczkana summary · Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Pethia stoliczkanaBoth sources give 5.0 cm SL (standard length, tail excluded); no larger TL figure found. Legacy 6 cm is plausible as total length.
Seriously Fish: Pethia stoliczkana · FishBase: Pethia stoliczkana summaryLegacy 16-24 is cooler than Seriously Fish's 18-26.
Seriously Fish: Pethia stoliczkanaLegacy range inside Seriously Fish's 6.0-7.5.
Seriously Fish: Pethia stoliczkanaLegacy has no hardness; sourced value recorded.
Seriously Fish: Pethia stoliczkana75 x 30 cm base x 30 cm height = 67.5 L; Seriously Fish lists ~68 L. Legacy 80 L is more generous than this minimum.
Seriously Fish: Pethia stoliczkanaNo source names a swimming level.
FishBase: Pethia stoliczkana summarySeriously Fish difficulty rating 'Easy' (6 of 8 measures).
Seriously Fish: Pethia stoliczkanaLegacy 'about' says India, Bangladesh and Myanmar; no source lists Bangladesh (that may come from confusion with P. ticto).
Seriously Fish: Pethia stoliczkana · Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Pethia stoliczkana · FishBase: Pethia stoliczkana summaryLegacy (slimmer males with red/orange fins) agrees. 'Darker back' and 'duller tail spot' in females not found in a source.
Seriously Fish: Pethia stoliczkana · FishBase: Pethia stoliczkana summaryEgg scattering in fine plants verified; legacy trigger 'after cool water changes' not stated (source suggests the warmer end of the range). Seriously Fish's breeding text is its standard account for small cyprinids, not a documented spawning of this species in particular.
Seriously Fish: Pethia stoliczkanaLegacy 24-36 h narrower; legacy count 100-200 not found in a source.
Seriously Fish: Pethia stoliczkanaRange corrected (no Bangladesh; add Thailand and Laos). Legacy mentions only the tail spot; there is also a shoulder blotch.
FishBase: Pethia stoliczkana summary · Seriously Fish: Pethia stoliczkana