Males more colourful "“ mature specimens with a "˜humpbacked"™ appearance. Females grow larger.
Feeding
Flake, granules, pellets, algae wafers and frozen foods
Description
Care
The Humpbacked Limia is a most unusual looking livebearer. Mature fish not only take on beautiful colouration, including black vertical bars along the flanks and yellow fins (the caudal and dorsal also dotted with black spots), but the males also develop an arched back - hence the common name. The aquarium should contain plenty of plants that will enable any fry to hide from the adults when breeding takes place. It is not advisable to keep this species with similar livebearing species as interbreeding is likely to occur. They can, however, be kept with small non-livebearing species that are peaceful and enjoy the same conditions. Keep two or three females per every male.
Feeding
Green flake, flake, micropellets, small frozen foods, vegetable matter: blanched spinach, lettuce, kale etc. These fish will leave aquatic plants alone if a good proportion of vegetable matter is included in the diet.
Breeding
Easy. The female gestates for 4-6 weeks, and then releases a small number of fry (usually 10-25) depending on size of the female. Adults often predate on the fry, which is why it is important to create a maze of plant cover for the young to hide amongst.
Where can I buy these aquarium fish or invertebrates?
If you like this species and would like to find out more, we have an enormous range of aquarium fish and invertebrates available to buy in all of our stores across the UK (including freshwater tropical and marine fish).
However, please note that this species may not be available in your chosen store, even if the store specialises in this particular species. This is due to seasonality and stock availability from store-to-store. Please check with your local store about availability of specific species to purchase before making a journey.
For delivery before Christmas, orders must be placed on or before 3pm on Wednesday 20th December. We cannot guarantee delivery of these orders pre-Christmas as we are reliant on our couriers, but will use our best endeavours to get orders placed on this date out to you before Christmas. For full details of our festive delivery and opening times click here
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