Geos and Rainbows with guppies?
- Thread starter Sanderguy777
- Start date
Look into apistosgramma species like cacuatoides or Agassizii or Borellii, etc or some of the rams...they come in many colors: German blue ram, electric blue ram, gold ram, balloon ram. They are more suitable
Altums85: i had always heard they were peaceful, but looking at the comments here, they seem more opportunistic than peaceful.
Pheeflow: I'll look into the rams and apistos for sure! A. Cacuatoides has colors like some of my male guppies.
Do you think I could breed the apistos or rams im the ssme tank? Or would they get territorial?
Pheeflow: I'll look into the rams and apistos for sure! A. Cacuatoides has colors like some of my male guppies.
Do you think I could breed the apistos or rams im the ssme tank? Or would they get territorial?
Yes the one in the pic was mine, Gymnogeophagus is a related genus from the southern part of South America, where there are seasonal winters, surface waters can get a thin sheet of ice, and a thin dusting of snow is possible.
Before I realized this, I tried to keep Gymnos at year round tropical temps, and they didn't do well, fungal diseases seemed to be more frequent than they should have been, and they didn't show those great colors. Once I realized the importance of a slight cool down they did much better, and looked their best.
These Gymnos are, as you noted smaller cichlids than their tropical cousins, and are able live in tanks as small as 60 gallons, although in such a tank, I doubt I'd trust them with guppies.
Here is the same Gymno as from my other photo, in tank.
they are mouthbrooders, below a slightly more drab colored female, tending fry
By the way, there are many species, here is another, Gymno sp Paso Pache (a location name)
There are plenty of other interesting fish from those temperate waters.
Australoheros above, too big for a 60, and would easily eat all your guppies
There are plenty of other interesting fish from those temperate waters.
Australoheros above, too big for a 60, and would easily eat all your guppies
Duanes: I hadn't even heard of Gymnos before this last week. Definitely on my bucket list now!
But like you said they wouldn't work with my guppies, at least not in such a small tank, so I'll have to wait and try to get a bigger tank that I can keep 5 or 10 in.
But like you said they wouldn't work with my guppies, at least not in such a small tank, so I'll have to wait and try to get a bigger tank that I can keep 5 or 10 in.
