Scientific name:
Nannostomus

Natural spread:
South America

the Ziersalmler spread in the middle and northern South America belongs to the most popular aquarium fish under it salmon-educational. Because of its extremely slim, small rod-shaped shape, them are also called "pencil-fish" apt. Almost all Ziersalmler come from small, verkrauteten waters with little water-current. Many forms are surface-fish, whom its food prefers, at the water-surface catches. Therefore, also some types swim as adaptation to this form of the food-acquisition in angle with the head upward ("Schrägsteher"). The food consists without exception only of very small creatures and vegetable grew up, since all Ziersalmler only over one very small one, endständiges mouth have.

Type Nannostomus The most known representative of the 6 Nannostomus-Arten is the Längsbandziersalmler (Nannostomus beckfordi), from which there is a series of varieties. Caused by the big spread-area (the type occurs in Guyana and in the entire Amazon-basin), several color-variations developed.

The fish long until 6,5 cm show Nannostomus-Arten odd behaviors like finished with the combination. The males fight together, in that sporadically zuschwimmen it one on top of the other and impresses parallel or against-ingeniously to each other with spread fins. Finally, the superior male separates itself with a spawn-consents females from. With the spawn-act, approximately 30-60 eggs are set aside from plants at the underside.

The Zwergziersalmler (Nannostomus marginatus), that is given a home in Suriname and west-Guyana, gains a length of 4 cm. A type "Humility-attitude" could be observed with it. The inferior male turns the back to the aggressor and bends the tail-stalk easily upward. Hereby, the attacking animal is induced regularly to turning away.

Others frequently groomed types is the two-bandages -, N. bifasciatus, and the Dreibindenziersalmler (N). trifasciatus, that the most beautiful representative of the type is well.

Type Poecilobrycon The 3 types of this type are very near relative with those of the type Nannostomus. they are to be been in the habit of completely similarly like the aforementioned ones and need very soft water for the breeding, since they live in its home in tropical Schwarzwässern, Schwarzwässer are through humus-materials of gloomily colored waters, that because of the strong precipitations in the tropical rain-forests through continuous end-ablution of the ground very mineral-poor and with it very soft is. Schwarzwasserähnliche circumstances let themselves reach in the aquarium through venal additions or through peat-filtration.

The Spitzmaulziersalmler (Poecilobrycon eques) is something penetrated as the two other types, it is also the smallest type with 5 cm of total-length. This type belongs to the so-called slant-swimmers and swims almost even vertical in silence. Virtually horizontally, the two other types, the Goldbindenziersalmler (P), swim. harrisoni, until 6 cm (from west-Guyana, and the Einbindenziersalmler (P)). unifasciatus, until 6,5 cm, from the Amazon-basin and Guyana. More final is extremely pencil-shaped and always is at the ground-reasons, with what strikingly it from the most different ornament-salmon-educational deviates that is surface-animals normally. The Poecilobrycon-Arten also show a distinctive nightly camouflage-coloring with vertical stripes.