severum color question

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brcacti

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Trying to learn about the color variations on Severums, have seen regular, rotkeil, gold, white, yellowish and dark yellow almost an orange. Are the gold, white, yellow and mix light colors all called gold severums? Anyone car to make a brief explanation?:nilly:
 
I know my male gold would vary between all of those colors, depending on mood. I personally have never heard of that many separate variations.
 
Green, Rotkiel and Gold are the only variations, they change as they grow up.

My Green can be anything from a light green almost white to almost black or very deep brown depending on mood.

Golds are white when they're younger and eventually develop into almost an orange depending on whether they're male or female too, with the worm patterns on their side.

Rotkiel I have no experience with.
 
Here are pictures of my Gold, and one of my green. No experience with Rotkiels. To my knowledge there are only three variations, but I have not read very much literature on this topic :)

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Im thinking of getting some severums,. for a 190 L tank, any knowledge on how big these suckers can get? easy to breed? inquisitive? my name is sevrin so i think their name is wiked already!
 
Gunza;1370684; said:
Im thinking of getting some severums,. for a 190 L tank, any knowledge on how big these suckers can get? easy to breed? inquisitive? my name is sevrin so i think their name is wiked already!
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For 190L I wouldn't go more than 2, they get pretty large for a 3 foot which I presume you have for 190L. If you do choose to get 2, that's all I would get for the tank, and if you want to push it a little more I'd put in a Bristlenose Pleco. They do tend to destroy plants too. Mine isn't too bad with it, but two mates who keep multiple Severum's have trouble with their plants.

20CM Fish, very inquisitive and as they grow older they can be hand fed I'm pretty sure (Mines still a juvie). Harder to breed than most Cichlids because they're hard to pair up.
 
I especially like the gold strain. Severums come from soft, acid water - any problems growing them with the more usual hard alkaline water?
 
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