Quick question regarding adding Green Terrors to tank, How many at the beginning?!

[Stanzzzz7]

There is a chance it won't work.
Unless you spot that a pair have formed in the shop it is best to get six and let them pair off naturally.
If you put a random female with a male and she is not ready to spawn,the male can get pretty nasty if he wants to mate and she's not willing or ready.

 

[philipraposo1982]

alright I will go with your advice and get 6. Thanks for all the help everyone

 

[ragin_cajun]

I don't agree that it's easy to tell sex of Green Terrors apart. I've had a couple of em, never a group, though. Unless there's a hump on their head, I don't see how you can tell. And then, in the pics above, looks to me like 3 males---not 5 females and 1 male.

Maybe it's me, something I don't know.

but, put em in a tank, and see which ones pair up, then you'll know for sure.

And let me add my standard advice......get a bigger tank.

good luck.

 

[Stanzzzz7]

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I don't agree that it's easy to tell sex of Green Terrors apart. I've had a couple of em, never a group, though. Unless there's a hump on their head, I don't see how you can tell. And then, in the pics above, looks to me like 3 males---not 5 females and 1 male.

Maybe it's me, something I don't know.

but, put em in a tank, and see which ones pair up, then you'll know for sure.

And let me add my standard advice......get a bigger tank.

good luck.

Head humps can be misleading as dominate females get head humps too.
Fin extensions can also be misleading, some females produce trailers as well as males.
Individual fish are a lot harder to sex than a group. In a group you can clearly see a difference in the sexes.
When I bought my six they were about 50mm long.I hand picked 1 male and five females.
It was easy to spot the males in the tank.
The females are duller in colour and have less blue spangles in their sides.

The fish below are all females despite the hump to the head.






And here is a male. Notice how bright the scales are compared to the females.The blue/green scales of a male will also cover more of the fishes body than that of a female.

 

[ragin_cajun]

I like green terrors a lot. Before I got obsessed with Vieja, back whenI first got a tank again...I had 2-3 green terrors one after another. They all grew very very slowly, no humps, kinda skittish, got beat up and outgrown by the Vieja in the tank with them. I bought them all from the LFS. I think they were sick because they all were kinda long and skinny. If I'd known then what Hex is, what to look for, I probably could have medicated those fish and they'd have started growing and maybe been able to keep up with the Vieja.

Now my son has a GT alone in a 75 in his room, that's an awesome fish. He's blind in one eye, and my son really doesn't like fights and aggression in his tank, so nothing else goes in there with him other than a lone Zebra Loach.

 

[virgil2090]

Green terrors are SA,the vieja is CA, some people mix south and centrals with success,but the aggression level differs. as you mentioned yours grew slow,which seems to be a thing with GT

 

[philipraposo1982]

Thanks for all the advice.

I went out today and was able to find young terrors likely only 3 months old. They were $2.99 each and I got 6.

My question now is about their color. Most of them shows next to no color but some had faint strip on the tails. The band on the tails were white looking and not orange.

Does this mean they are silvers and not gold's?

 

[mrrobxc]

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Head humps can be misleading as dominate females get head humps too.
Fin extensions can also be misleading, some females produce trailers as well as males.
Individual fish are a lot harder to sex than a group. In a group you can clearly see a difference in the sexes.
When I bought my six they were about 50mm long.I hand picked 1 male and five females.
It was easy to spot the males in the tank.
The females are duller in colour and have less blue spangles in their sides.

The fish below are all females despite the hump to the head.

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And here is a male. Notice how bright the scales are compared to the females.The blue/green scales of a male will also cover more of the fishes body than that of a female.



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That's the nicest goldsaum I've ever seen Stanzzzz7

 

[Alexxxxsv14]

Let them settle in and take pics !

 

[mrrobxc]

After that pic of your male Stanzzzz7 , I'm getting a trio of goldsaums to out in my 150 with the pair of Johanna pikes. Thanks for helping me make my mind up as I've been thinking hard about tankmates for those pikes.