Gold saum/green terror tank mates

[jstoj]

Setting up a tank around green terror would this stocking in a 133g planted tank be ok..

I will have 4 small green terrors untill I choose a nice male out of the group and just keep one gt with:

15 Congo tetras
4-6 pictus catfish

Is there any other fish I could add or would this be the limit.

Open to other fish that won't eat plants.

Thanks

 

[tlindsey]

Setting up a tank around green terror would this stocking in a 133g planted tank be ok..

I will have 4 small green terrors untill I choose a nice male out of the group and just keep one gt with:

15 Congo tetras
4-6 pictus catfish

Is there any other fish I could add or would this be the limit.

Open to other fish that won't eat plants.

Thanks

Jexnell
Deadeye

 

[Jexnell]

Should be fine. The bigger the Tetra group and Pictus groups are the more natural they behave. Both find comfort in numbers.

 

[Deadeye]

It should work. The Congos should be big enough to avoid getting eaten.
If I were to add anything it would be a bristlenose pleco.

 

[duanes]

Since I'm a biotope enthusiast, I would limit my choices, to fish found west of the Andes, in Peru and/or Ecuador..
These would include large S American Tetras, geographically correct catfishand Gobies.
The Freshwater Fish Fauna of Western EcuadorDePaul Universityhttps://condor.depaul.edu › waguirre › fishwestec › area

 

[jstoj]

Since I'm a biotope enthusiast, I would limit my choices, to fish found west of the Andes, in Peru and/or Ecuador..
These would include large S American Tetras, geographically correct catfishand Gobies.
The Freshwater Fish Fauna of Western EcuadorDePaul Universityhttps://condor.depaul.edu › waguirre › fishwestec › area

I thought green terrors are central American cichlids

 

[duanes]

Green terrors (Andinoacara rivulatus or stalsbergi) are loner , soft water cichlids from west of the Andes.
The only Andinoacara from Central America is Andinoacara coeruleopunctatus from Panama and reach as far north ) as Costa Rica.
These (coerluleopunctatus) are the species I catch and keep in may tanks fromPanama.
I have kept 2 location variants
The ones from Central Panama.

And the more golden variant from eastern Panama.

Both vatiants that I've found have been caught in high pH, and hard water, with undetectable nitrates.

And very much like the true "green terrors", the most common fishes found with them in their habitat (as opposed to other cichlids) would be large tetras and gobies.

 

[jstoj]

Green terrors (Andinoacara rivulatus or stalsbergi) are loner , soft water cichlids from west of the Andes.
The only Andinoacara from Central America is Andinoacara coeruleopunctatus from Panama and reach as far north ) as Costa Rica.
These (coerluleopunctatus) are the species I catch and keep in may tanks fromPanama.
I have kept 2 location variants
The ones from Central Panama.
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And the more golden variant from eastern Panama.
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Both vatiants that I've found have been caught in high pH, and hard water, with undetectable nitrates.
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And very much like the true "green terrors", the most common fishes found with them in their habitat (as opposed to other cichlids) would be large tetras and gobies.
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What sort of gobbies and tetras. I live in Australia so it will be limited to get certain fish.

 

[duanes]

The tetras in my pics are genus Roeboides, but what may be more availabe for you may be Astyanax (very similar to Bienos Aires tetras).

The Gobies I use are Awaous, but I would not be available where you are ..... but.....
Australia and Papua are hot beds of Gogy species activity.

 

[jstoj]

The tetras in my pics are genus Roeboides, but what may be more availabe for you may be Astyanax (very similar to Bienos Aires tetras).
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The Gobies I use are Awaous, but I would not be available where you are ..... but.....
Australia and Papua are hot beds of Gogy species activity.

But if I added gogy from Australia Papua would it still be a biotope as they armt from the native area of the saum?