Freshwater
Darter characine
Apareiodon affinis
Parodontidae
Facts
Characteristics
- Length
- Up to 18.1 cm
- Body shape
- Streamlined
Care
- Group
- Missing
- Smallest aquarium
- 149 liters
- Diet
- Missing
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Behavior
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Swims
- Missing
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Water values
Smallest tank
149 liters109 × 37 × 37 cm · For one fish
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Lives wild in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
More about the species
About the species
Occurs in ponds.
Source: FishBase
Other names
Other scientific names
- Apareiodon paraguayensis
- Parodon affinis
- Parodon paraguayensis
In other languages
- Levätetra
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