What are the different types of severums? I noticed green severums, gold severums, and Heros efasiatus. Im not sure what Heros efasiatus are, but what is considered interesting severum etc? Thanks for any info that you could provide.
Different Types of Severums?
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Well they are the 3 true types of sev, there are others, but are hybrids, and not that common as severums arent sluts like most cichlids, just horny buggers, Gold and green are the most common, thus the cheapest, and redheads are more expesive and not as common although can be easily picked up without to much searching, they are a lovely fish, mix with just about any thing (they can be peacfull with peacfull fish and aggressive with agressive fish) if given the right tank space to keep to their own they will mix with just about any thing, max out at about 8" in cap athough its no rare for them to push that, they will eat any thing from pellets to chicken, not fussy eaters, or fussy about water conditions, one severum idealy needs a 60gal to live on their own....they regualy will feed from your hand and reconsise you when you walk in the room, spot on cichlid for a beginner, i personlly love them, one of my favourite cichlids...hope this helps
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i like the urau ones(don't know if it is spelled right). i used to have 2 greens and a gold and when they all got to about 5" they would die. figure it was probably my water.
either way they are my 3rd favorite fish behind datnoids and pbass. maybe i'll get urau. i've been thinking about it.
You guys ned to get you nomeclature down, Heros severus is a species of fish, in the hobby there are greens and gold, other species of Heros you can find are H rotkiel (red head/shoulder) H. efasiatus (red spotted) and H. appendiculatus (Turquoise), Occatioanlly H. notatus or H. spurius and several undiscribed species of Heros are available, but rarely. Uaru amphiacanthoides is a totally different genera. None of these fish should ever be crossed with each other except the commom green and gold H. severus. Ken
Ken,
I thought the true Heros severus was a mouthbrooder like Heros notus is. I also though Kullander lumped the turquoise (appendiculatus) with green/gold (efasiatus) at some point, as it's no longer listed as a valid species ... which didn't make much sense to me given the differance in adult sizes.
I thought the true Heros severus was a mouthbrooder like Heros notus is. I also though Kullander lumped the turquoise (appendiculatus) with green/gold (efasiatus) at some point, as it's no longer listed as a valid species ... which didn't make much sense to me given the differance in adult sizes.
I stand corrected, the "severum" of the hobby, nobody really knows for sure, most likely a hybrid combination of several wild species, the true H. severus is rarely is seen and a mouth brooder which the domestic "severum" is a substrate spawner. H. appendiculatus and H. efasiatus are different species to me, they don't resemble each other at all. H. appendiculatus comes form Peru and H. efasiatus from central Brazil, collection locations are 1,000 miles apart. Ken
Yeah, I wasn't for combining them together, and was rather surprised considering Kullander tends to split up species. I know coloration isn't supposed to dictate species, but I would think the differant adult sizes would.