severum sp 'atabapo' and friends

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An emperor cichlid?
Didn't I see in T.F.H once that these are open lake fish that get either 24 or 36"?!?!?!?

Nice severums also, do you find they are aggressive either to each other or others?
 
yeah emperors will be a temporary resident in my tank... till it hits a decent size and i figure out what i want to do
the severums are doing well, a bit shy but they've only been in my tank for around 48 hours. not a whole lot of aggression. they were chasing other fish around in the lfs, but they were in a tank with other severums.

gani - please send sean the proof of the rtm's demise :D
(let me know when you let yours go!!! i'll go up there personally and pick up :D :D)
who needs sean's 'loaner' female when you have can have a real lady :D
 
beautiful sev's! id love to get some someday..
 
cool stuff man!
i think yours is a girl.
let's see if we can't breed some and spread them around the hobby, eh? i think your female is larger than my male lol so i need to put some size on this guy :)
let's keep each other updated with pictures, yeah?
 
Yep yep, right now he/she is in a 180 and being pushed around a bit by a barred midas and nourisatti, but no noticable damage, just light chasing - I'm going to wait and see how he/she settles in before making a decision on moving them into a smaller 60 gallon with my guinacara.

Hiding behind driftwood right now - don't think I'll be getting any pics in the next few days with the size of this tank :D
 
i think barred midas might be too much for them. the nourisatti might be more mellow in the long run. guinacaras may be ok, but i think she would end up scaring them a bit :)
you have a good breeding operation going there with the guinacaras so don't let that get disturbed!
 
Yeah I think it'll be fine due to the size of the tank it's in, but we'll see. The guinacara are pretty aggressive - so I don't know if the severum would even bother them.
 
ewok;1964022; said:
lol
now EVERYONE wants some mouthbrooding severums eh? :D
i got them from tong's for $90 (got a 10% discount cuz the girl thinks i'm hawt! :D :D) ok fine she didn't say that, and no i wouldn't want that either :D i called ahead and asked if i get a discount for unloading two of them, so she said 10% off, and i was there later that evening.
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$90 bucks for them? :WHOA:

Here a picture of mine. I don't remember what happened to him. I think I either gave him away or sold him for a few bucks.
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