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Luciosoma setigerum

Common name: apollo shark


Photo by Mark Rosenstein / Active Window Productions, Inc.


Photo by Gil Stern


Photo by Gil Stern

They are large cyprinids related to the Rasboras. They are very active predators, and make fine additions to a community of large cichlids and catfish. I kept a shoal (they don't do well individually) of twelve in a 200 gallon tank and they looked sup

     
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