Thanks Laurie. They get NLS Thera A+ 1mm pellets. The lighter substraight does make them show better color contrasts IMO.
Geophagus Red Head Tapajos Aggression
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You're welcome Tom. You're absolutely right, there is much more of a contrast viewing the pics side by side. How are they with plants? Looks like you have yours tied town. Mine are quite a challenge.
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I have a mix of fake and real plants in the tank. The real plants are pothos hanging out of the tank and anubius tied to drift wood otherwise their constant sifting would uproot anything planted in the substraight. My plastic plants are tied to rocks and burried in the sand or I remove the base and shove them into the drift wood. I suspect your fish might look more like what these fish actually look like in the wild however I've never seen Taps in the wild so just guessing.
The con-specific thing isn't an unbreakable rule. For one thing, it's conditional to there actually being con-specifics in the tank, no con-specifics and you can throw it out as predicting their behavior, then it just depends on the individual fish and what else is in the tank. There are other factors that are conditional; for example, a breeding pair may try to chase fish away from a spot they like for spawning-- even when they're not spawning.
Overall I agree with the points above. It's definitely possible to keep them as a pair with other fish, I've done it, but yours is apparently expressing whatever frustration or aggression or loneliness to the other fish (whatever loneliness means in fish terms, in this case I simply mean your geo may prefer to see other geos in the tank).
...Sounds like your severums are same size as the geo or are they a bit smaller? IME redheads geos and sevs are a good combination and, if anything, the sevs would be the more dominant fish, given their larger adult size.
Overall I agree with the points above. It's definitely possible to keep them as a pair with other fish, I've done it, but yours is apparently expressing whatever frustration or aggression or loneliness to the other fish (whatever loneliness means in fish terms, in this case I simply mean your geo may prefer to see other geos in the tank).
...Sounds like your severums are same size as the geo or are they a bit smaller? IME redheads geos and sevs are a good combination and, if anything, the sevs would be the more dominant fish, given their larger adult size.
Thanks Tom. As long as there's enough rocks around the base of the stem, they're leaving most of the plants alone for now. If Im remembering correctly, my geo group are wc, as are the rest of the cichlids in my SA tank. All from Jeff Rapps. Hopefully they'll continue to looks as they would in their natural environment!
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