Some Questions For You Geo Experts?????

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flowerpower

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Recently acquired some steindachneri (my first geos) and, after doing a bit of research, have a few questions.
1. Is it best to keep them alone or can I add other geos (Red Head Tapajos or Gymno Balzani for example)?
2. Can I keep them in a community setting with non-aggro, non-cichlid fish like plecos, cory's, white clouds, neons etc.?
3. What has worked for you? Any anecdotal advice for keeping and breeding these guys?
4. What is the story behind crassilabris, steindachneri and the other sp. that allegedly get mixed up with one another?

Thanks in advance.
 
1. geo do better in groups with their own and other geos.
2. you can make it a community with them, i keep my geos with rainbows, chocolate cichlids, severum and a bristlenose. Haven't had any problem besides buying to small of tetras and my chocolate ate them.
3. they like sand, i use pool filter sand, i keep mine with live plants buts be careful because they will unroot plants if the plant isn't well rooted. i am waiting for my geo red heads to breed. I have also noticed my f1 red heads grow 10x faster than my wild caught red heads. The tank is set up with sand, driftwood, few rocks, live plants with a temp of 80F.

I don't know much about that certain species tho. I thought i would just help you out some.
 
1) they can be and prefer groups. mixing species is ok but gymnos really need a cool down period as opposed to geos from tropical waters.
2) they'll do great with a wide variety of tankmates. i've never really heard of any eating smaller fish like tetras. i've keps jurupari with severums, chocolates, psittacus, mainly orther SA, peacefull cichlids.
3) like honda said, fine grain sand is best, pool filter sand or play sand, some use tahatian moon sand. i've had mine in with all three. some people have had luck with plants with extensive root systems. they tend to uproot plants quite easily. mine at smaller sinking shrimp pellets like it was crack.
 
I'll just answer number two because I'm not a complete expert. I keep my two geo surineminsis in a community tank with a large school of congo tetras and other semi-aggressive fish like barbs. I haven't seen any probs yet
 
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