Expedição 2022 Colômbia I

Shoals of armored catfish near Puerto Inirida

Our boats didn’t actually need to go that far. There were beautiful biotopes full of cardinal tetras, cichlids, catfish species and even altums all around the village of Inirida. Some of the waters were picturesquely situated in the forest and had very clear blackwater.

We found armored catfish (Corydoras brevirostris) only in the Cano Bonito. If you consider your five armored catfish in your aquarium a nice shoal, you should see the shoals of armored catfish in the Cano Bonito! They are hard to count because they don’t lie down next to each other on the ground, but, if a shoal of armored catfish takes several minutes to pass you, there must be several hundred of them, at a rough estimate! Sights like this are really something.

Também foi possível encontrar espécies de Pimelodella no mesmo biótopo

You have never seen so many armored catfish!

Almost everyone knows that armored catfish are schooling fish. But how many armored catfish do you need for a shoal? In the Cano Bonito near Puerto Inirida in Colombia, there are so many armored catfish you can hardly count them. Once you’ve seen the masses of armored catfish swimming through the picture, you’ll think twice about only keeping five in your aquarium.

We found the cardinal tetras exclusively here in very shallow water (depths of between 5 and 40 cm). They NEVER sought out deeper areas. They always swam above areas where the ground was completely covered with foliage.

Measured values Caño Bonito

Measurement	Values
Location/type biotope	Inirida, Cano Bonito large
GPS data: longitude	03°53'41.4'' N
GPS data: latitude	67°53'58.3 W
Date:	Feb 05, 2022
Time:	14:15
Water temperature in °C (surface)	28
Conductance in µS/cm:	9
GH:
KH:
pH:	5.5
Iron in mg/l:
Oxygen in mg/l	8
Cloudiness:	patchy
Visibility depth in cm:	approx. 200
Lux above surface:	25,000

Measurement

Values

Location/type biotope

Inirida, Cano Bonito large

GPS data: longitude

03°53'41.4'' N

GPS data: latitude

67°53'58.3 W

Date:

Feb 05, 2022

Time:

14:15

Water temperature in °C (surface)

28

Conductance in µS/cm:

9

GH:

KH:

pH:

5.5

Iron in mg/l:

Oxygen in mg/l

8

Cloudiness:

patchy

Visibility depth in cm:

approx. 200

Lux above surface:

25,000

Expedição 2022 Colômbia I

Expedition 2022 Colombia I - 2022

Shoals of armored catfish near Puerto Inirida

You have never seen so many armored catfish!

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Expedição 2022 Colômbia I

Expedition 2022 Colombia I - 2022

Shoals of armored catfish near Puerto Inirida

You have never seen so many armored catfish!

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