My heros (severums) collection

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Any good way youve found to tell the sexes apart besides vent? Doesnt seem to be much difference appearance wise in severums.

a lot of them are differentiated by the amount of facial markings/worming. Efasciatus are pretty easy to tell apart as are Rotkeil. Red and gold efasciatus can also be done teh same way, but are often very difficult to tell apart because they are line bred and females can also have some worming on them as well.

Liberifer can also be very difficult to tell apart. Males seem to always have heavy spotting on their gill plates and females seem to range from none to mild spotting as in my pair.

Notatus are the easiest to tell apart as they are heavily dimorphic, but look the same as juveniles, then change their appearance.

The severus pair that I have havent actually laid yet, so I can't confirm sex yet, however one has very bold striking worming while the other does have light worming that seems to come and go.

The Inirida are still to young right now, but they do seem to be developing differences.
 
Thank you. 180s make great SA tanks. Here is one of mine(they were hiding after a water change in the first pic):

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That scape is gorgeous, really digging the fish selection also!

I'm wondering what kind of filtration system you are using for this, i was thinking about making my 180 into a SA tank. Your tank just sealed the deal for me haha
 
That scape is gorgeous, really digging the fish selection also!

I'm wondering what kind of filtration system you are using for this, i was thinking about making my 180 into a SA tank. Your tank just sealed the deal for me haha

2 FX6s. It really needs a sump though because I have to clean them more often than I want to, and the fx6s get cumbersome to deal with. Great filters though. With a sump I will be able to clean a prefilter easier.
 
+1 on sumps being much easier to clean pre filters. I use my canister as biological only now and don’t clean it as often since I don’t have any mechanical in it.
 
2 FX6s. It really needs a sump though because I have to clean them more often than I want to, and the fx6s get cumbersome to deal with. Great filters though. With a sump I will be able to clean a prefilter easier.
Oh damn, how many water changes do you do a week? Must be a lot lol

I was thinking of getting a 75G sump combined with a FX6
 
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