Description
Common name: Empire Gudgeon
Latin name: Hypseleotris compressa
Maximum size: 10-12cm
Water chemistry: pH: 5.0-8.5; Hardness: medium hard to hard (dH: 5-18); Temperature: 20-32 C
Origin: Occurs in northern and eastern Australia and southern New Guinea.
Diet: Will take good quality flake (such as Nutrafin Max Small Tropical Micro Pellets), sinking pellets, frozen bloodworms and live food.
In nature adults live and spawn in freshwater streams but the initially pelagic post-hatch larvae are washed downstream to the sea where the post-larval fry spend the first part of their life developing in marine conditions.
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