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Name
Scientific name
Brochis leopardus
Described by
Authority Myers, Year 1933, Bracketed
Family
Callichthyidae
Common names
Leopard Cory
Photograph credits
Not recorded
Summary
The leopard cory, Brochis leopardus, long known as Corydoras leopardus, is a spotted armoured catfish from the western Amazon basin in Peru…
Size and aquarium
Maximum size
61mm, standard length
Aquarium size
Minimum length 60 cm, Minimum depth 38 cm, Minimum height 30 cm
Water
Water conditions
Temperature 20–25°C, pH 6–7.2
Hardness
2–12dGH
Conductivity
Not recorded
Behaviour
Temperament
Peaceful
Social needs
A shoal or group
Community suitability
Community-safe
Where it lives
Countries, regions, rivers and lakes
Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Amazon, Jurua, Manuripi, Napo, Yavarí
Writing
Etymology
Brochis: from the Ancient Greek βρόχος (brochos), meaning 'loop', in allusion to what Cope described as a looped cord joining the barbels at the end of the upp…
Distribution
Found in the western Amazon basin. It's listed from Loreto in Peru (Meza-Vargas et al., 2021), from Ecuador (Barriga Salazar, 2014) and from Bolivia (Sarmiento…
Habitat
Museum specimens have been collected from oxbow lakes, lagoons and backwaters off the Río Manuripi in Bolivia, a floodplain lake in Loreto, Peru, and small for…
Aquarium size
A tank measuring 60 ∗ 38 ∗ 30 cm is big enough for a group.
Maintenance
Use a substrate of fine sand so it can sift for food without damaging its barbels, and add smooth rocks and pieces of driftwood for cover. Some dense planting …
Water conditions
Temperature: 20 – 25 °C pH: 6.0 – 7.2 Hardness: 2 – 12 dGH[10]
Diet
An omnivore that forages on the bottom. It takes most sinking dried foods such as small pellets and tablets, along with small live and frozen foods such as blo…
Behaviour and compatibility
Peaceful, and a good community fish with small characins, pencilfish, dwarf cichlids and other peaceful catfish. Avoid anything large or aggressive. Keep it in…
Sexual dimorphism
Females grow larger than males and are rounder and broader in the body, and the difference is easiest to see from above. Males tend to develop more pointed fin…
Reproduction
We haven't found a report of this species spawning in the aquarium. It's likely to breed in the same way as other corys. Condition a group on live and frozen f…
Notes
It looks very like Hoplisoma julii and H. trilineatum, but has a longer, more pointed snout and grows larger. One of the two fish Myers described it from was l…
References
References
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