Wow, what a beautiful species. Thanks for posting all the pics, I cannot say I have seen these anywhere. They can't be cheap. The male pictured with the nice nochal hump and trailers looks amazing. Are they hard to raise? Does anyone have any experience keeping them with a male Chocolate cichlid, and maybe a Severum in the future. I'm looking for future inhabitants to go with my male Chocolate in a 90 gallon.
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I was just reading up on them a bit online and see they are also called T-bar cichlids. I have seen them at my LFS before. 
A more important question would be if I could keep a male T-bar with a male Chocolate in a 90 gallon successfully? Maybe also adding a Severum in the future. Sorry for the derail.
A more important question would be if I could keep a male T-bar with a male Chocolate in a 90 gallon successfully? Maybe also adding a Severum in the future. Sorry for the derail.
if they are the same size....Cookie*420;4652992; said:I was just reading up on them a bit online and see they are also called T-bar cichlids. I have seen them at my LFS before.
Reading online, one page said there is a yellow variant and a blue/purple variant. Which would the above fish be?
Cookie*420;4653235; said:
That's a female. All females look like that.
The ones commonly seen ones are the blue variety and there is supposedly a gold variety as well but I have never seen a picture of a mature specimen to really tell the difference.
The gold variety is to my knowledge no longer in the hobby. Conkel sold some several years back but they seem to be lost at the moment. Maybe someone will collect more at some point.
Pretty much all of the ones in the hobby right now came from Germany. Several people on here breed and sell them. They are not expensive or hard to find if you look around a little.
Also, I believe these got moved back to cryptoheros recently and are no longer classified as archocentrus.
Pretty much all of the ones in the hobby right now came from Germany. Several people on here breed and sell them. They are not expensive or hard to find if you look around a little.
Also, I believe these got moved back to cryptoheros recently and are no longer classified as archocentrus.
jgentry;4653873; said:
Rapps sold them for a bit a while back too. Maybe he'll see this thread and can post if he knows anything about them.
Mad About Cichlids;4653458; said:
I agree...looks to be a female due to coloration but I will say she is a very bulky female. She looks awesome.
And to Mad About Cichlids, that male was stunning. Never seen trailers that nice on one before and the coloration is awesome. So sorry to hear you lost him.
Cookie*420;4652992; said:I was just reading up on them a bit online and see they are also called T-bar cichlids. I have seen them at my LFS before.
That's going to be a lot of fish for a 90 gallon. I think I'd maybe add a pair of sajica along with the 2 chocolates and call it a day. Maybe add a school of dithers but no other big cichlids. But then again chocolates and severums are pretty peaceful usually so you could try but you'll have to do a lot of water changes as they reach adulthood.
I'm also very glad to see the pics from Cavamart. I purchased some juvies from him a month or so ago. Also got some of his chetumalensis. They're tiny but growing rather quickly. Can't wait till they get to the size of the ones in this thread.
