Geophagus Brasiliensis "Laguna de Molle"
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Very nice I’m still saying these look very different from the usual brasiliensis....
Body shape not really. There's plenty of tall bodied examples on YouTube. Color, yes you're definitely correct. This collection point in Uraguay definitely shows red versus the common blue ones in the hobby.
Very interesting some of the stuff you see. Could you explain the differences in courting?
God yes haha look at the mouth placement in yours.. more terminal location (downward arrangement) than the old brasiliensis, check out pics on the net, an example I can think of is geophagus steindachneri a “few” years back tangledupincichlids brought in a steindachneri type fish that wasn’t positively described as steindachneri out of Venezuela which I bought and spawned, cool fish which the males also carried, just saying your fish looks different than the old fish..
I collected them a few years ago - they get BIG (like 12") although my experience with them in aquariums is that they take a long time to get beyond say 8" even in a big tank. They'll breed much smaller.
Laguna Molle is an oxbow near the Rio Yaguaron in eastern Uruguay. It's positively full of Anacharis, which made swimming in it really creepy (for me at least).
That oxbow is pretty much the only place in that area where I've caught them - they're not in streams or the big river (at least that I've caught).
Laguna Molle is an oxbow near the Rio Yaguaron in eastern Uruguay. It's positively full of Anacharis, which made swimming in it really creepy (for me at least).
That oxbow is pretty much the only place in that area where I've caught them - they're not in streams or the big river (at least that I've caught).