General information – The Uaru Cichlid is very good natured cichlid

with elegant appearance. It came from the Amazon River Basin and

from the Rio Negro basin. The Uaru is an intelligent cichlid that

responds to their owner. It has orange eyes with an

oval disk shape body. The body is a silver gray color with in dark

brown to olive in the middle of their body. There is also a spot at

the base of the tail.      

Common Name - Uaru Cichlid, Triangle Cichlid, Waroo Cichlid,

Poor Man's Discus 

Scientific Name - Uaru amphiacanthoides 

Family – Cichlidae  

Origin - America South; Amazon River Basin and Guyana  

Size – 20cm-30cm (8-12 inches) 

First discovered - Heckle, 1840 

Photo by: Dr. Haim Sohat

Feeding should consist of vegetable matter such as lettuce spinach, cucumber and Spirulina pellets 

Behavior – Peaceful  

Maintenance and care – 80 gallons and up.Tank should have a gravel or sand bottom with a few woods

in it. good established tank and well filtered water are essential for the Uaru.

The Uaru should be kept with other peaceful fish. It will do best with peaceful tetras, Corydoras,

Altum Angels, and peaceful Geophagus, the Uaru is a schooling species and should not be kept singly.

Uaru has a tendency to eat aquarium plants so be careful   

Water Parameters – Temperature: 25C - 29C (77F - 84F), PH: 5.5 -7.5, DH: 5-14 

Breeding – Hard to breedIn order to breed this amazing fish we will need lots of room. Decorate the

breeding tank with large, rounded rocks, clay pots and flat slate to give them a choice of spawning sites.

The female will lay 100-800 eggs at a time.     

Like discus the Uaru newly swimming fry eat the nutritious slime generated on the bodies of their parents

so do not remove them from the parents. After two weeks the fry can be feed on hatched live baby

brine shrimp or on fry food.