Paleatus the freshwater fish

Paleatus 
Palaeatus the freshwater fish of the genus Corydoras, of Corydoradinae family. Brazilian inhabit tributaries of the river La Plata and slow-River Uruguay. Paleatus the bottom fish in nature feed on insect larvae that dwell there, the remains of plants, insects, worms and shrimps. Paleatus were recorded in European aquariums are the 1876th year, but under the wrong name.
The body of the fish is cylindrical, short and compressed, with very large head and arms above it. Color is back and hump the olovnosiva, while the flanks metalnosjajni. Belly fish is pink or orange color, which is due to spawn, especially noticed in sexually mature females.


The body are properly deployed, large, dark spots indefinite shape. The males are half the size of females, which grow to ten cm. Lední fin of males is sharply at the top, while the females rounded. Females have a wider abdomen and are distinguished by a rounded belly fins. The sale is also an albino form of fish, but the absence of color and freckles, it is not possible to determine which type they belong to the genus Corydoras.
Paleatus corresponds to colder water rich in oxygen, from 20 to 24 ° C. Prefer a densely planted aquarium because of his shyness. Jatašice are, therefore, desirable in the aquarium to keep at least 8 copies of these fish. They are very peaceful, as with other fish, as well as within species.

Can be kept with all the fish that do not fit into the mouth. The only problem with paleatus can provide enough delicate substrates - paleatus mustache, which they use to locate food, are susceptible to sharp pebbles, which they can be completely destroyed. In aquarium conditions will eat the remains of food (which is why it is popularly called "cleaner"), sinking tablets for fish, bottom, frozen or dried tubifex, and will Grickat and algae from aquatic plants. The lighting should not be too hard, and water must be absolutely clean. Clear, oxygen-rich water is a major precondition for the cultivation of all species of the genus Corydoras. If water does not contain enough oxygen, paleatus will emerge to the surface at high speed and swallow air. Shortage to be felt by the other fish, and then preferably enter the tank oxygen through air pump, and will help if you turn the filter output hose to break the surface.

Reproduction is not complicated. To spawn is the best small aquarium, 40 to 50 liters, with a layer of water is not higher than thirty inches. Aquarium is best to turn towards the source of light, since the carp spawn most often when sunlight reach the tank. Spawning can encourage and bad, rainy weather, when the pressure decreases. Water must be fresh and quite aerated, which is achieved by air pumps. The aquarium must be a constant temperature of 20-22 ° C. In such a prepared tank shall contain one female parent, the widespread and orange belly, with two to three males. Mature female will swim hard and fast aquarium, followed by the males, which may take several hours.

When you finally reach the female dogs, she catches one of them for anal fins and sucks his jelly. Then the female ventral fins create a kind of basket, which lay up to five pieces of roe, and then looks for a place in the aquarium that will cling to eggs. After you choose the surface, usually glass, the first drop jelly out of her mouth and then cemented her eggs dropping from the baskets. The procedure is repeated until the female does not polijepi from 150 to 200 pieces of large, bright and transparent eggs. A number of males ensures that almost do not even stay neoplodene eggs. At 20 ° C incubation of eggs takes ten to twelve days. Parents rarely eat hard eggs, which are not interesting any other fish. First day madi feed Copepoda, and later transferred to the larvae of mosquitoes.