Redchin panchax
Epiplatys dageti
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A killifish from the West African coast (Ghana, Ivory Coast and Liberia), from coastal swamps and quiet stretches of brooks and slow rivers. It is not an annual killifish: eggs are laid among plants and mosses.
- Scientific name
- Epiplatys dageti
- Family
- Nothobranchiidae
Fact sheet
General
- Water
- Freshwater
- Group
- Fish
Taxonomy
- Family
- Nothobranchiidae
- Order
- Cyprinodontiformes
- Synonyms
- Aplocheilichthys spilauchen, Aplocheilus dageti, Epiplatys chaperi, Epiplatys dageti dageti, Epiplatys dageti monroviae, Epiplatys sexfasciatus, Haplochilus chaperi, Haplochilus infrafasciatus, Haplochilus sexfasciatus, Lycocyprinus sexfasciatus, Panchax chaperi, Poecilia sexfasciata
Origin
- Native region
- África
Water
- Temperature
- 20–30 °C
- pH
- 5–7
- General hardness (GH)
- 1–12 °dGH
Size and lifespan
- Adult size
- 4.5 cm
- Minimum tank (volume)
- 54 L
- Minimum tank (length)
- 60 cm
Behavior
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Social life
- School
- Swimming level
- Middle
Care
- Care difficulty
- Easy
Reproduction
- Breeding strategy
- Egg scatterer
Conservation and trade
- IUCN status
- Least concern (LC)
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