Geophagus comparability questions

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freebyrd

freebyrd

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I have a 300 gallon and planning to stock a community of eartheaters. So far I plan on gravel/sand substrate mix and driftwood with live plants attached to the wood and some artificial plants. What do you think of my stock idea? I have some flex options ide like some input on as well

Winemilleri x4
Red tapajos x6

The flex:
2 rotkiel severum
Or
1crenicichla tapajos red
Or
2-4 satanoperca deamon

Any other flex options you guys could suggest?

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Some altums would look great with geos and a great big school of bleeding heart tetras.
 
freebyrd said:
I have a 300 gallon and planning to stock a community of eartheaters. So far I plan on gravel/sand substrate mix and driftwood with live plants attached to the wood and some artificial plants. What do you think of my stock idea? I have some flex options ide like some input on as well

Winemilleri x4
Red tapajos x6

The flex:
2 rotkiel severum
Or
1crenicichla tapajos red
Or
2-4 satanoperca deamon

Any other flex options you guys could suggest?

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What is the footprint?

Based in what you've given us, any of those plans will work (possibly with room to add a few more cichlids depending on footprint).

I am partial to the severums and geos. I love my setup of geo red heads with their super red severum friend. Lots of red! :)

Someone mentioned altums and I would pass on wild or F1 as they might be too sensitive to the hassle and bustle of active geos. Same for discus. Regular P. scalare angels might work out well since most are captive bred these days.


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+1 on what's the footprint

I'd probably want more than four winemilleri,I've never kept them but larger groups are generally better and you should have space with 300g. As for tankmates, I'd leave it at that for cichlids, add a bich school of something midswimming (like larger tetras), some corys or other catfish for the bottom, and a couple of nice plecs. I don't know much about the crenicichla, but two severums would almost certainly work with that stock. Uarus would also be nice, or Mesonauta.
 
I'd avoid large Crenicichla with orange heads. I had lents with my G. brachybranchus and G. winemilleri which worked pretty well, but those are large, deep-bodied geos. I'd be afraid the orange heads might be on the smaller side and get shoved around by the pike. I can tell you that my Saxatilis pike worked a little better than the lents.
 
I agree with Ryan, especially with a tapajos red's. They are one of the nastier large pikes.
 
OK, I just really love the larger crenicichla, I'll post up some pics when I get it set up I don't know the dimensions off hand. I will also be running a 55 gallon sump 2 fx5s and 2 ac110s.
 
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