The most COLORFUL SA/CA tank you could imagine!

[Hawkfish3.0]

I cherry picked out of the last fish order and picked up ..
G. Sp. "Tapajos Red Head"
V. Bifasciata
V. Regani
V. Synspilum
Archocentrus panamensis "Red"
RotkeilSevrum
Roberstoni

so far so good, they are looking awesome and getting along so far.

Ooh, nice! Post some pics. That may also be helpful for the purposes of this thread.

 

[hoosierchick]

Wish I could post pics,sorry, no digital camera tho.

 

[freeskierrocket]

What I'm hearing here really isn't that colorful, except for the festae, and the salvini would preferably be a female as well - more yellow.
WIth a GT, they aren't very colorful, it's just that awesome orange (or silver) fin edge.

For COLOR - albino oscar, red bay snook, convict, firemouth, you know, along those lines.

You need to decide if you want VERY Colorful FISH, or a fish that has a very colorful PART on it.

You suggested a pigment deficent fish as a colorful fish?????

Maybe a nice Heros sp. Rotkeil or a gold sev............

 

[Nova 8]

Flowerhorns

Those are the three that I like, just don't put them in the same tank.

red devil, JD, fowerhorn, salvini, motaguenese, GT, uro, festea, and manguenese

Just thought I would point out that FH are not CA/SA Cichlids. They are hybirds they don't exist anywhere but in aquariums.

 

[Hawkfish3.0]

Just thought I would point out that FH are not CA/SA Cichlids. They are hybirds they don't exist anywhere but in aquariums.

That is very true, but if you consider for a moment that they are hybrids of CA/SA cichlids, one might consider them as such.

 

[Opiate]

umbees are bewdiful...lil agro tho! maybe...salvini, jag, festae? they'd prolly clash tho

 

[z24frank]

EBJD s for sure!

 

[WolfFisho1]

if he is getting a festae and a EBJD that would not work! and you could go for a high quality FH but those are expensive and very aggressive!

and blood red jewls they arent SA but are very nice! would be a necseity!

 

[SouthCentral]

Synspilus or Zonatus, the Nic's that someone had mentioned (female if only getting one, they're much more colorful than males). Trimac has good color but is a bit of a brute. Rokteil severum has good color but probably too weak/passive to hang with the big boys. Of course a JD as previously mentioned, and a texas...not the normal, but the blue green spangled ones...carpintis, not cyanoguttatus...hope I didnt get the species names mixed up.

Anyway, when you talk color, you gotta be talking female Nic's:

My nic:

 

[motoro ray]

Here are some ideas