"Cupid Cichlid" Biotoma cupido? ever kept these?

[Diogenes]

I went to an LFS in Baltimore tonight to stock my planted 29g (which I did!). I almost picked some of these up, but I knew what I wanted, and I never buy a fish without researching it first.

Has anybody ever kept these?

 

[LobstersGoPeenchPeench]

looks like a ram of some sort. pretty much simple small cichlid keeping. bloodworms/ maybe brine shrimp, mysis shrimp. just try feeding all them things

 

[fishfarm]

I've imported them many times, peaceful mid size cichlid, get about 4" tops. easy to keep in a soft water tank, hard to bred. Ken

 

[evojoey]

As said above a nice, small peaceful cichlid. I have a pair with my Geo's. They like a sand substrate as they sift like geo's. eat anything I throw in the tank. Pellets, bloodworms and brineshrimp. Pretty easy fish to care for over all.

 

[JK47]

As said above a nice, small peaceful cichlid. I have a pair with my Geo's. They like a sand substrate as they sift like geo's. eat anything I throw in the tank. Pellets, bloodworms and brineshrimp. Pretty easy fish to care for over all.

They like sifting sand/share the same care as geos because they are a part of the geophagine. I was doing some homework on Biotodoma and was told that they can be a very skidish species that may hide alot. Are your Cupido the same way Joey?

 

[darth pike]

I'm not sure about adult cupido, but Biotodoma wavrini can closer to 6" and thick!!! I was shocked the first time I saw adults. I deffinately wouldn't keep a pair in a 29 gallon, heck I passed on smaller ones even in a 40 gallon breeder.

The fish in the pic isn't a cupido though, nor wavrini ... it's an undescribed Biotodoma. The way to tell the three about is the location of that spot on it's side. On Cupido it's completely above the upper lateral line. On wavrini it sits below the upper but above the lower lateral line. On the undescribed species, the upper lateral line splits the line (which it appears to be doing in your pic).

 

[evojoey]

They like sifting sand/share the same care as geos because they are a part of the geophagine. I was doing some homework on Biotodoma and was told that they can be a very skidish species that may hide alot. Are your Cupido the same way Joey?

Of all the fish in my tank, other than my pleco, they are the only fish that hide under wood and behind rock. whn they get scared they seem to set off a chain reaction throughout the tank. When they start flying around the tank, so does everyone else. So, yes they are skittish IMO.