An undervalued and overlooked beauty

[js302]

Aequidens pulcher

Easy to breed, peaceful, responds brilliantly to good water and a great diet.

What to keep with your discus, your less confident cichlids and your L-numbers?

I really hope we don't lose this cichlid and all of its it genetic wonder.

Don't you agree ?

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[Kalen]

Agreed, Blue Acara are beautiful fish and make a wonderful addition to any new world cichlid aquarium. I have one with my Firemouths and he is one of my favorite fish.

 

[dbcb314]

The two I had (well one was my brothers) were nothing less than dick heads. I had one that killed 3 cory. Yes... stalked and killed them. WTF chases cory cats?

My brothers lived with a dempsey, firemouth, and 2 big sevs and held its own.

I have never owned the peaceful version unfortunately. Always liked that little fish.

 

[qtrhorse89]

I had a male that I absolutely adored. He tolerated a bristle nose pleco but there wasn't much else he'd let stay in his tank. He was gorgeous though and had great personality.

 

[Sab_Fan]

was my favorite fish . . . he died last year, and I haven't had one since. seems like they always lose out to GTs in popularity, but I prefer BAs because they don't get as large and are not as aggressive

this was mine

 

[camb1988]

I just posted about my acara bullying my Dempsey. He literally stalks the Dempsey! I to wish I owned a peaceful acara.

 

[lukas]

This was my first fish, Even at 5" he tolerated a stack of tank mates Then we ordered a female for him to get jiggy with, We then bought two more because the new ones were all tiny compared to the big fella, I now have about about a hundred fry and maybe more wrigglers about to take flight, Can see a new grow out tank on the way. I havent seen much aggression accept the terrritorial stuff while breeding.. but hey ya gotta expect that. check my pics if ya like them. Fry for sale in 4 or 5 weeks(Melbourne,Australia only)

 

[js302]

The two I had (well one was my brothers) were nothing less than dick heads. I had one that killed 3 cory. Yes... stalked and killed them. WTF chases cory cats?

My brothers lived with a dempsey, firemouth, and 2 big sevs and held its own.

I have never owned the peaceful version unfortunately. Always liked that little fish.

Sorry dude that's crazy!

I just posted about my acara bullying my Dempsey. He literally stalks the Dempsey! I to wish I owned a peaceful acara.

That's unbelievable !!

This was my first fish, Even at 5" he tolerated a stack of tank mates Then we ordered a female for him to get jiggy with, We then bought two more because the new ones were all tiny compared to the big fella, I now have about about a hundred fry and maybe more wrigglers about to take flight, Can see a new grow out tank on the way. I havent seen much aggression accept the terrritorial stuff while breeding.. but hey ya gotta expect that. check my pics if ya like them. Fry for sale in 4 or 5 weeks(Melbourne,Australia only)

That rocks! Post some of those pics here !

 

[js302]

was my favorite fish . . . he died last year, and I haven't had one since. seems like they always lose out to GTs in popularity, but I prefer BAs because they don't get as large and are not as aggressive

Nice fish!

Exactly, that's what I've found. They lose out to GTs.

I'm gonna keep an eye out for some good looking BA's and see if I can spawn them.

 

[Experiment397]

hey if someone in the us starts breeding them then heck ya ill put blue acara instead of gt on my stocklist, i had only seen one before this thread and loved it, it was being kept with sevs and angelfish and discus!!! along with tetras!!! i didnt know any cichlid could be kept with tetras(besides dwarfs)