Ancistrus montanus (Regan, 1904)
Photograph: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London (licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Breeding
Keeping
Current
IUCN
Least Concern (LC)
Size
(M) 10-11 cm / 4"
Aquarium size
ab 60 cm / from 2 ft
pH-Value
pH 6-8
Conductivity
< 450 µS/cm
Temperature
20-26 °C / 68-79 °F
Names and synonyms
Xenocara montana
References
Regan (1904); Bifi, Oliveira & Rapp Py-Daniel (2019)
Regan describes a very flat mountain species with an extremely large sucker-mouth, olive brown in color. The fins are blackish, and slightly mottled. According to Bifi et al., the species and the rather similar-looking A. greeni both have a carina formed by bony plates, located before the adipose fin.
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