Least rasbora
Boraras urophthalmoides
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A tiny rasbora, 12 to 16 millimetres long, from mainland Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam), from swamps, marshes and ponds with dense fine-leaved vegetation. It scatters its eggs.
- Scientific name
- Boraras urophthalmoides
- Family
- Danionidae
Fact sheet
General
- Water
- Freshwater
- Group
- Fish
Taxonomy
- Family
- Danionidae
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Synonyms
- Rasbora urophthalma, Rasbora urophthalmoides
Origin
- Native region
- Ásia
Water
- Temperature
- 20–28 °C
- pH
- 6–7
- General hardness (GH)
- 1–10 °dGH
Size and lifespan
- Adult size
- 1.6 cm
- Minimum tank (volume)
- 41 L
- Minimum tank (length)
- 45 cm
Behavior
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Social life
- School
- Minimum group
- 8
- Swimming level
- Middle
Care
- Care difficulty
- Moderate
Reproduction
- Breeding strategy
- Egg scatterer
Conservation and trade
- IUCN status
- Near threatened (NT)
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