My Chocolate addiction

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Lets see some Chocolates (Hypselecara temporalis) How many members keep these gentile beauties?

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Older pic from about 1.5yr ago
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Looking good Tom, I picked up a trio of 2 inchers a couple weeks ago.
 
I always have at least one around in a tank:

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I was raising a few and they were almost ready to start breeding - when Starbuck, my gold giant gourami went ballistic overnight and killed (and tore apart, and ate) everything in her aquarium, including them.
They are easily one of the nicest Cichlids to keep. You are are super nice.
 
Growing out 4 right now. They're gorgeous and just barely 3". Supposedly wilds from wetspot. 2 died at delivery because they came from the stores show tanks and werent fasted, according to the manager. .. led to massive feces amounts when they arrived and ammonia burns as I tried to acclimate.


The ones that survived / healed though like I said are just gorgeous..reds, greens, purples with gorgeous fins.

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beauties, great colouration. They look a lot like severums.
 
It has always been my opinion (and a damn good one , I might add ;) ) Parrots, Chocolates, Uaru, Severum and Discus most likely in that order on the evolutionary tree shared a common ancestor. Festivum and angelfish also probably evolved off the severum branch of that tree as well.

Every time I bring up the subject of cichlid evolution I hear crickets....lol. It just can't compete with stock my new ?????? threads.
 
It has always been my opinion (and a damn good one , I might add ;) ) Parrots, Chocolates, Uaru, Severum and Discus most likely in that order on the evolutionary tree shared a common ancestor. Festivum and angelfish also probably evolved off the severum branch of that tree as well.

Every time I bring up the subject of cichlid evolution I hear crickets....lol. It just can't compete with stock my new ?????? threads.

I just picked one up...he is a little rough from his previous stop so no pics atm- In regards to your evolution theory i see exactly what you say... I think Discus are not on the 1st branch- but you can add Heroina to that too...as far as the angel branch 100 percent - festivum then leopaldi scarle then altum
 
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