The first pic looks like a female GT, it could be the angle but the second one looks like an Acara...at least the face does. I think you have a female and they don't grow as fast or get as big. I've had my female GT for over a year and she's maybe six inches total length. The male grew much more quickly and is much larger than her.
is it normal for my green terror to be this small at this age
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Hello everyone, I'm new posting to this site.
I had the same experince with my 3" GT. I had her for 8 months and she is still the same size as when I first got her. She is definately sub-dominate because my 8" Albino Veiltail Oscar is her protector against bullies. I used to have a 6" Convict that terrorized my tank (give him up for adoption). The Oscar would intervine with its mouth wide open and the Convict would back down and would pick on the 5" Blue Acara. Maybe my GT size hasn't improved because she depended on the Oscar for protection.
I had the same experince with my 3" GT. I had her for 8 months and she is still the same size as when I first got her. She is definately sub-dominate because my 8" Albino Veiltail Oscar is her protector against bullies. I used to have a 6" Convict that terrorized my tank (give him up for adoption). The Oscar would intervine with its mouth wide open and the Convict would back down and would pick on the 5" Blue Acara. Maybe my GT size hasn't improved because she depended on the Oscar for protection.
I feed the fish twice a day at three hours and I have heard the gts seem to be slow growers but I've never hear of not growing lol. He does have orange on both his top and caudal fin I was trying to compare pics on google but when I google blue acara and green terror they come up with both because people mix them up so much. I'm gonna go to one of my lfs and get a larger one and put it in my 125 and put the smaller one in my 55 alone and see how it goes hopefully I can get some growth from one of them or do u think I put them together in the 55 and still maybe see some growth from one. M1ste2tea all my fish are still growing so I feed them about 2-3 times a day. And sometimes I feed them hikari Gold, cichlid stick, cichlid granules, cichlid flakes, and brine shrimp.
The gt eats the flake and the granules but spits out the sticks and doesn't even touch the hikari gold pellets. her poop seems fine normal old fish poo. louis76 my texas cichlid was the most dominate and the third largest in the tank before he died and he would always seem to be protecting my gt.
yeah you feed good foods but do you actually see HER eat when you do? next time you feed keep a close eye on her and watch what her behavior is, if she spits it all back out or doesnt go for it at all or something like that, also try and watch for when she poos to see if its healthy looking or not
nvmd just read your post, i guess it must just be because she is subordinate then
nvmd just read your post, i guess it must just be because she is subordinate then
cichlid_mfk15;5161789; said:
Who ever said keeping fishes is boring never fully experinced the hobby.
