Redspotted tetra
Copeina guttata
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A red-spotted fish from the middle and upper Amazon (Brazil, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador) that eats insects and other small invertebrates.
- Scientific name
- Copeina guttata
- Family
- Lebiasinidae
Fact sheet
General
- Water
- Freshwater
- Group
- Fish
Taxonomy
- Family
- Lebiasinidae
- Order
- Characiformes
- Synonyms
- Pyrrhulina argyrops, Pyrrhulina guttata
Origin
- Native region
- América do Sul
Water
- Temperature
- 20–28 °C
- pH
- 4–7.5
- General hardness (GH)
- 1–10 °dGH
Size and lifespan
- Adult size
- 7.6 cm
- Minimum tank (volume)
- 108 L
- Minimum tank (length)
- 120 cm
Behavior
- Social life
- School
- Swimming level
- Middle
- Diet
- Carnivore
Care
- Care difficulty
- Moderate
Conservation and trade
- IUCN status
- Least concern (LC)
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