New green Terrors owner
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I have a 500 liter tank I stuck 5 juvs in and there all getting on now
5 juvs biggest is half a inch
1 adult male 5 inch
1 adult female 4.5 inches
Still one male in the other tank
My male green terror the white fin one is wild caught all and all my juvs follow they are wild caught also ,my tank is 500 liter
The female is on other side of tank and occasionally visits no incident so far been this way for 2 hours so far I'm so happy my 5 juvs are wild caught they were 12 quid each and are also white
I'm getting rid of any male from the 5 juvs and keeping the female and other original female he paired with (tank breed gold)
I have no sand or light that arrives Wednesday lol
My tank is 5foot
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I'd do what you're doing. I have no idea if it will work, but it's seems to be to be the best way of going about it.
Everything I've read about large, more aggressive cichlid species is it gets more tricky to add new fish once they're full grown.
My recent experience is limited to Severums, Chocolates, and assorted Geophagus. In those cases it was never tough introducing new fish... the only thing I haven't tried is another chocolate, and of all the species I keep currently, the chocolate is supposed to be the most aggressive to conspecifics.
Anyhow, I'm in the process of listing my current stock for sale locally so that I can try to get a nice harem of GT's!
It's pretty cool that you have wild caught GT's. I've read they are from Ecuador and it is supposedly extremely difficult to export wildlife from there. That would explain the $$$, or in your case the £££. (I am Canadian and have no idea what a quid is!!! I'll Google it!)
Everything I've read about large, more aggressive cichlid species is it gets more tricky to add new fish once they're full grown.
My recent experience is limited to Severums, Chocolates, and assorted Geophagus. In those cases it was never tough introducing new fish... the only thing I haven't tried is another chocolate, and of all the species I keep currently, the chocolate is supposed to be the most aggressive to conspecifics.
Anyhow, I'm in the process of listing my current stock for sale locally so that I can try to get a nice harem of GT's!
It's pretty cool that you have wild caught GT's. I've read they are from Ecuador and it is supposedly extremely difficult to export wildlife from there. That would explain the $$$, or in your case the £££. (I am Canadian and have no idea what a quid is!!! I'll Google it!)
So I Googled it and 12 £ is equal to about $20 CDN.
That's dirt cheap for a wild caught fish where I live!
For reference, the captive bred, probably fish farm raised 5" GT's I was looking at yesterday we're listed at $90 CDN/each, or £54.
Now, I'm not going to pay that. I've found that prices in my area are negotiable so I'll make a lower offer to get 4 fish at once and see where it goes.
I may also try to offer some of my current stock in trade if I can't sell them privately.
That's dirt cheap for a wild caught fish where I live!
For reference, the captive bred, probably fish farm raised 5" GT's I was looking at yesterday we're listed at $90 CDN/each, or £54.
Now, I'm not going to pay that. I've found that prices in my area are negotiable so I'll make a lower offer to get 4 fish at once and see where it goes.
I may also try to offer some of my current stock in trade if I can't sell them privately.
I don't know if this should go under lesson learned but I want to warn every one
If your green Terrors breed and the eggs are infertile or even disappear like in my case do not remove the fish in anyway to another tank or at least not the same tank everything was going so well till the move and after moving the two to my new big tank the male tested chunks into the female.
I think this was due to moving the fish after day 3 of eggs which disapeared.
The only way to carm the male so he would leave the female alone was to put my 5 juvs green terrors in the tank which made him turn into some super dad keeping the juvs together and leaving the woman alone.
Here is a pic of my female in a 15 gallon or 60 liter hospital tank
If your green Terrors breed and the eggs are infertile or even disappear like in my case do not remove the fish in anyway to another tank or at least not the same tank everything was going so well till the move and after moving the two to my new big tank the male tested chunks into the female.
I think this was due to moving the fish after day 3 of eggs which disapeared.
The only way to carm the male so he would leave the female alone was to put my 5 juvs green terrors in the tank which made him turn into some super dad keeping the juvs together and leaving the woman alone.
Here is a pic of my female in a 15 gallon or 60 liter hospital tank
