Twig Catfish
Scientific Name: Farlowella vittata
Family: Loricariidae, Sub-Family Loricariinae
About the Twig Catfish
Species Type: Freshwater Fish
Category: Catfish ...
common name: Royal Farlowella, Royal Twig Catfish
Family: Loricariidae
Continent of origin: South America
Origin country: Colombia, Panama, Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana,
Size: under 20 cm cm (7.87 inch) ...
Farlowella acus, Kner, 1853
Twig Catfish
Origin: Brazil, La plata region, and tributaries to the Amazon river.
Twig Catfish - Farlowella vittata Myers, 1942
By anyone's standards, these are odd looking fish. They can be found for sale from time to time in good retailers but you have to look hard to spot them if they are in a decorated tank.
Twig Catfish
also known as Whiptail Catfish, these are several species of unusual, thin suckermouth catfish (Farlowella spp., Rhineloricaria spp.) that grow to about 10-20 cm.
Twig Catfish (Farlowella sp.) and Hillstream Loaches (Balitoridae sp.) are excellent examples of micro predators which relish diatomic algae growth, but are often mistaken for vegetarians by their keepers for their affinity for these algaes, ...
Twig catfish
Farlowella spp.
there are at least 20 species in the twig catfish genus ...
Farlowella, Twig catfish
Image gallery: Additional species photographs
Distribution ...
Needle Catfish, Twig Catfish [Pictures]
Farlowella acus
SYN: Acestra acus
PD: The body is covered with small plates. This catfish is elongated and it has an extended snout. The sucking mouth is located on the underside of the fish.
'' While these fish indeed chew their way through most kinds of algae, they produce so much waste that I invariably ended up with clogged, dirty gravel and worse water quality than if there had not been pl*cos present. The twig catfish are a nice ...
 See also: Catfish, Water, Fish, Aquarium, Algae
  
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