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The payara, which is also sold as the saber tooth barracuda, vampire fish, vampire tetra, or saber tusk barracuda, is a popular species for large, aggressive aquariums. It requires a large aquarium and can only be mixed with relatively large species, as smaller will be seen as potential prey. [4]
Cynodontidae, also known as dogtooth characins or vampire tetras, are a family of predatory, characiform freshwater fishes from South America. This group is not very diverse, and includes only five genera and 14 species .
Hydrolycus armatus is a species of dogtooth characin found in freshwater of tropical South America. [2] It is sometimes known as Payara, [1] or harm, [3] [4] [5] a name it shares with the related H. scomberoides.
Small, colorful, and a lover of habitats with sandy substrates, Red-clawed Crabs are some of the best aquarium pets that aren’t fish. Also known as Mangrove Crabs or Red Crabs, these clawed ...
Vampire fish is a colloquial name given to the following varieties of fish: Candiru (fish) ( Vandellia cirrhosa ), a species of parasitic freshwater catfish Payara , a species of dogtooth tetra
That is until recently, when paleontologists in Luxembourg unearthed the fossil and realized it was a new, never-before discovered species of deep-sea vampire squid, according to a study published ...
Tetraodontiformes (/ t ɛ t r ə. ɒ ˈ d ɒ n t ɪ f ɔːr m iː z /), also known as the Plectognathi, is an order of ray-finned fishes which includes the pufferfishes and related taxa. This order has been classified as a suborder of the order Perciformes, although recent studies have found that it, as the Tetraodontoidei, is a sister taxon to the anglerfish order Lophiiformes, called ...
The emperor tetra is a placid aquarium fish and will be disturbed by more boisterous species. It grows to 4.2 cm. [3] It prefers a pH of 6.5, a hardness of 3–6 dKH and a temperature of 23–27 °C. It does not school as readily as most tetras, and a pair appears happier than with most tetras.