Chocolate pair or Uaru pair for 150g?

ryansmith83

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Chocolates are a dime a dozen. I love H. temporalis but Uaru are not as common and as mentioned their breeding behaviors are a lot more fun. The fry will feed from the parents' slime coat as discus do. I have always loved Uaru so they would be my choice.

Though it might be fun to have a pair of each. A 6' 150 is plenty big enough for four cichlids with a bunch of small dithers like tetras. Uaru and Hypselecara often make good tankmates. ;)

Whatever you decide on, I'd definitely make sure to keep dithers. Heroine cichlid pairs can sometimes turn violent if there is a disagreement about eggs or fry, and I've had so many instances of males trying to murder females in breeding setups that I no longer keep pairs alone. I spawn them in tanks with dithers or community fish.
 
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Chocolates are a dime a dozen. I love H. temporalis but Uaru are not as common and as mentioned their breeding behaviors are a lot more fun. The fry will feed from the parents' slime coat as discus do. I have always loved Uaru so they would be my choice.

Though it might be fun to have a pair of each. A 6' 150 is plenty big enough for four cichlids with a bunch of small dithers like tetras. Uaru and Hypselecara often make good tankmates. ;)

Whatever you decide on, I'd definitely make sure to keep dithers. Heroine cichlid pairs can sometimes turn violent if there is a disagreement about eggs or fry, and I've had so many instances of males trying to murder females in breeding setups that I no longer keep pairs alone. I spawn them in tanks with dithers or community fish.
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rtague

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Chocolates are a dime a dozen. I love H. temporalis but Uaru are not as common and as mentioned their breeding behaviors are a lot more fun. The fry will feed from the parents' slime coat as discus do. I have always loved Uaru so they would be my choice.

Though it might be fun to have a pair of each. A 6' 150 is plenty big enough for four cichlids with a bunch of small dithers like tetras. Uaru and Hypselecara often make good tankmates. ;)

Whatever you decide on, I'd definitely make sure to keep dithers. Heroine cichlid pairs can sometimes turn violent if there is a disagreement about eggs or fry, and I've had so many instances of males trying to murder females in breeding setups that I no longer keep pairs alone. I spawn them in tanks with dithers or community fish.
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Vukmir13

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I say temporalis only because I have 1 and he's great. Lots of fun, great eater, and quite the personality.
 
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jamntoast

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i've kept both and i like the uaru a better, when breeding i found my uaru more defensive and i think they can do more damage when they do fight with something but i loved them. they just seemed to have so much more personality.
 
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