Cichlidian1 Geophagus Tank Progress

[cichlidian1]

So due to a few members on here and one of my friends, I decided to start keeping geos. Sorry for the quality of pics, all I have is a point and shoot as of now.

First Tank: 75 gallon w/ 6x Geophagus Dicrozoster(Rapps)/3x Acarichthys Heckelii

Full Tank Shot(April 29 2010)

Group Shot of Dicrozoster

Acarichthys Heckelii

 

[greenterra]

I like the low light/dark scape. It looks good.

 

[Nemesis]

Very nice, it looks great.

 

[we4wieners]

love it man...really nice. great environment for the geo's. are they sifting already???

 

[honda237]

you will like the dicrozosters. they are slow at coloring up though. and i do notice a decent amount of agression to each other.

 

[peathenster]

nice setup!

Interesting how different they look on black and light substrates...

 

[cichlidian1]

Thanks to you guys for the input.

Green terra: most of my setups are pretty low-light, and it seems to capture the colors of the fish better.

Peathenster: I thought about switching the substrate to see if they change their coloration, but they're not bad. I have more recent pics and they have colored up a decent bit more. These pics were from when I first got them approx a month ago. I will def add more.

I also have 5x tapajos with 1x pindare 2x surinamensis growing out in a tank with same substrate I will post later. But I will be switching their substrate to a more whitish sand. in hopes of them coloring up better

 

[cichlidian1]

you will like the dicrozosters. they are slow at coloring up though. and i do notice a decent amount of agression to each other.

Yeah, I have to agree about the aggression, they just started acted really territorial the past week or so....I need to get them in a 125 probably around fall time this year.

 

[cichlidian1]

love it man...really nice. great environment for the geo's. are they sifting already???

Yeah the pics were taken a few days after I introduced them to the tank, so yeah they had been sifting for awhile.

Actually, apporx 1 hour out of the bag they were sifting. They acclimated very well. Their tankmates were suppose to be 6x biotodama wavrini, however they didn't deal with shipping as well and I lost all of them.

 

[G4series]

I like the low light/dark scape. It looks good.

says it all