Siamese tiger perch

Datnioides pulcher

Adults often have orange-yellow ground colour with usually four, occasionally five broad dark bars; stress can darken the whole fish.

Natural habitat: Inhabits large, deep lowland freshwater rivers, also entering flooded forest during the wet season.

Appearance and identification

Indonesian tiger perch may be mis-sold under this name. Fewer broad bars and warmer colour are useful clues, but stripes alone do not identify it.

Plan public-display or exceptionally large private accommodation, stable water and careful feeding observation after arrival.

Offer suitable aquatic animal foods; mammalian meat or random feeder fish is not a complete feeding plan.

Adults are not reliably schooling; no group number guarantees harmony.

Small fish and shrimp remain prey.

Floating cover does not replace space or filtration.

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