My little Jurupari.

[baseballman1321]

was looking into get some fish for my 120 and geos caught my eye.


i also have a beautiful brazilian eartheater. but got him yesterday so hes still a little shy.

 

[AOmonsta]

Nice. People always think it is a Geo but its actually in the Satanoperca genus.

 

[baseballman1321]

yeah im still confused about Satanoperca and geos.

 

[RedDwarf]

The reason people still think of them as Geo's is because for years they were classified as Geophagus and it wasn't until recent when the nomenclature was updated that they were changed to Satanoperca.

 

[baseballman1321]

thank you for that info

 

[baseballman1321]

bump

 

[baseballman1321]

whats the best food for this little guy right know hes on sinking hikari mini cichlid gold.

 

[jag123]

Nice little guy you have there. You can continue to feed him the Hikari - that is good to have them on a staple diet like pellets.

You can also try frozen bloodworm every now and then, and also chopped earthworms they love too. Mine will even eat spirulina wafers which is probably not a bad idea to include that in their diet too.

 

[Juxtaroberto]

The reason people still think of them as Geo's is because for years they were classified as Geophagus and it wasn't until recent when the nomenclature was updated that they were changed to Satanoperca.

OMG someone who knows about taxonomy! I'm a taxonomy nerd.

"Geophagus", as it was before, was a polyphyletic classification. It's like saying, "warm blooded animals." Well, birds are warm blooded, and mammals are warm blooded, but they're not on the same clade. Phylogenetics, however, places much heavier importance on ancestry, rather than morphology (as convergent evolution can and does occur... after all, did you know that the hyena is actually a Feliform, not a Caniform?). So it was discovered that the whole group of fish which were collectively called Geophagus actually belonged to several genera, and here we are today.