Banded panchax
Epiplatys annulatus
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The banded clown killifish lives in swamps and shallow coastal waters of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. It is not an annual killifish: eggs are laid among plants.
- Scientific name
- Epiplatys annulatus
- Family
- Nothobranchiidae
Fact sheet
General
- Water
- Freshwater
- Group
- Fish
Taxonomy
- Family
- Nothobranchiidae
- Order
- Cyprinodontiformes
- Synonyms
- Aplocheilus annulatus, Haplochilus annulatus, Panchax annulatus, Pseudepiplatys annulatus
Origin
- Native region
- África
Water
- Temperature
- 20–26 °C
- pH
- 4–7
- General hardness (GH)
- 1–8 °dGH
Size and lifespan
- Adult size
- 3.5 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
- Easy
Reproduction
- Breeding strategy
- Egg scatterer
Conservation and trade
- IUCN status
- Least concern (LC)
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