Data sheet L107 / LDA 67

German name:
Banded dwarf shield catfish

Scientific name:
Panaqolus sp “L 104”

Origin:
South America (Amazon region, near Puerto Ayacucho in Venezuela)

Size:
6 cm to a maximum of 8 cm

Aquarium

Length:
from 60 cm edge length

Contents:
from 120 liters content

water values

Temperature:
24°C and 28°C

pH:
5 and 7.5 pH

GH:
Up to 20 °dGH

Behave

Area:
lower area, ground level, middle area

Lining:
Live food, frozen food, food tablets, granules, flake food

Behave:
lively, unproblematic, can easily be socialized with other catfish species

Number:
in small groups, 4 to 5 animals

Difficulty level:
Beginners © Norbert Heidbüchel

Three small specimens of the catfish species in the photo were originally purchased as Peckoltia pulcher. Possibly L 104, but more likely LDA 67 Panaqolus spec. aff. maccus. It is unclear whether L 104 and LDA 67 are the same species. In some sources they are described as the same species, other sources assume that the stripes on L 104 are more point-like.

The animals will at least 9 years old. One of the animals has since died. Its mouth shifted as it got larger and sat almost where non-catfish typically have it.

One of the other two animals is significantly larger, always has a belly that seems to burst and the stripes are much yellower than the other. Maybe it’s a female and the animal in the picture is a male. This is not certain, because no visible offspring has grown up so far. But it fits descriptions about L 104.

Some information about L 104 can be found in the Aquaristik Aktuell magazine, issue 2/1997, pages 48-50 under the title Successful breeding of a small Panaque species and some more from five years of care.

In the aquarium there is quite a thicket of roots and plants, in which they stay more and more often as they get older. Most of the time they only come out of hiding when there is tablet food.

They definitely need green fodder and rasp wood. If no additional green fodder is given, they feed heavily on plants.

Lining for L 104:

L 104 or LDA 67 possibly due to Bandage Peckoltia L038 or L103 Photo: Norbert Heidbüche

Mine don’t go for algae. Rather Echinodorus, as noted above

They are quite rough among themselves and drive away e.g. B. each other from the feed.

It seems like they can be kept alone or separated by sex.

But who knows how they see it themselves and what is going on in the thicket is not known.