River

Arapey Grande

One profile names the Arapey Grande. That is what has been written, not what lives there.

Species: 1
Families: 1
Photographed: 1 of 1
Difficulty rated: 1 of 1

Basin

Uruguay basin

Also in the Uruguay basin

Cuareim

That fish is also recorded from

Runs through

Uruguay

Specimen from the aquarium trade, Singapore.

Aphyocharax rathbuniGreen Fire Tetra

Characidae · Eigenmann, 1907

45mm SL1.8in SL

60 × 30cm24 × 12in

20–26°C68–79°F

Endemic to the Paraguay, Paraná and Uruguay river drainages in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay. The smallest of the three Aphyocharax species seen in the hobby, the redflank is relatively uncommon in the hobby in the aquarium trade. It is also known as the Green Fire Tetra.