Common Name: African Butterfly
Other Common Names: Butterfly Fish
Scientific Name: Pantodon buchholzi
Family: Pantodontidae
Community: Semi-Aggressive
Class: South American
Temperature: 78 ºF
Swimming Range: Top
Adult Length: 4-5 inches
Feeding Habits: Prefers live brine shrimp, blood worms, crickets, glass worms, small fish and tubifex worms. Frozen plankton, beef heart, blood worms, daphnia, brine shrimp, glass worms and hi-pro. Freeze dried, flake and pellet foods are also accepted.
Compatibility: Peaceful with other fish of equal size, but will eat smaller fish.
Habitat: Africa: Moderately decorate with live plants, rocks and driftwood. Leave lots of swimming space on the surface. A few live floating plants are recommended to provide cover. Breeding The wing span of the male is larger and the anal fin is indented while the females has a straight edge. Spawning can produce up to 200 eggs, and fry hatch in 36 hours.
Butterflies must be kept in a covered tank as they will leap out of the water for food. In the wild they skim the surface of the water at lengths of six feet at a time.
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