Good point. Go with tetras (maybe rainbow fish because the gt would have a harder time eating them.).
Gold and white saum/GT (rivulatus) breeding
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At the size I've seen buenos aires tetras at the store, they are significantly bigger than a 9" GT mouth. This would be difficult for the GTs to even attempt to eat. It's not like they have huge mouths like oscars. Also, I haven't seen any as small as cardinal or neon tetras, and that is the size that I would worry about around a 9" GT.
Ironically I had a shoal of 10 buenos aires tetras as dithers when she was in my main 90. She was still stressing out my severum more than I wanted, but it certainly made the setup workable at the time. Didn't keep an eye on them and my shoal of 10 turned into 1-- as a first timer to bichirs I underestimated the rapidity with which a delhezi could bulk up ?
I like buenos aires tetras a lot, though, so I'll definitely grab another batch!
The offspring will likely be a mix of orange and white and - with good care - will be nice, healthy fish.
Some of the most attractive green terrors out there are the line bred "royal" green terrors from the Far East.
Most people - and LFS who would buy your offspring - just want a pretty fish. A smaller group of people care about provenance (i.e. connection to wild source)
Some of the most attractive green terrors out there are the line bred "royal" green terrors from the Far East.
Most people - and LFS who would buy your offspring - just want a pretty fish. A smaller group of people care about provenance (i.e. connection to wild source)
A. rivulatus is polychromatic. That means there are both colours in one population. For example in the Rio Quininde (left side tributary of Rio Esmeraldas) 1 out of 10 individuals shows white in the fins.
So there is nothing wrong in mixing them as long as you don't want to line breed the white ones.
So there is nothing wrong in mixing them as long as you don't want to line breed the white ones.
And you don't want to have tetras in a breeding tank. They'll get killed when the pair spawns and/or pick off fry. A strategy that I use to help the pair maintain a bond is to put another cichlid behind a divider in the breeding tank.
Agree about the tetras, I have a 180 gal with a spawning pair of wild caught Andinoacara coerleopunctatus, they have spawned 3 times so far this year, and share the tank with a few Roeboides tetras.
Only one fry made it from the 1st spawn, the tetras picked the others off, the surviver is now too large for the tetras to threaten.
From the 2nd spawn, maybe 5 have survived so far.
the 3rd spawn is in process of reduction.
I'm actually not concerned with keeping any fry, but if I were, I wouldn't have tetras, or a pleco (or any nocturnal predator) , in the tank
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Interesting strategy, I'm going to give this a shot since I have a misfit jack dempsey and spare tank dividers.
I'll probably add a shoal of buenos aires tetras if I ever want to limit fry, they were great dithers prior to becoming bichir meals.
