i got a couple silver dollars, and a single geophagus surinamensis.











can anyone tell me if the geo is male or female?

Cool fish!

Nice Geo! Now you need some sand for him to sift...

thanks guys.

seedy, i am actually going to tranfer the geo to my 55 which has a playsand substrate. these fish are just being quarantened in my 15.:)

Ever tried keeping Geo's with "community fish"? (angels, danios, loaches and stuff)

nope can't say i have. this is my first geo, unless you can count the rams(microgeophagus altispinosa). i have heard conflicting reports on the aggressiveness with geo's and "community fish". but from what i have gathered so far at least with the surinamensis is that they don't usually bother the smaller fish. i would think they would be okay with angels as well because geo's spend most of their time on the bottom and angels are pretty much top dwellers.

Nice geo, I have one (Look at the profile in FAQ :) ) They get more and more colorful as they grow, and mine has always been my Gold sev's shadow :lol: They aren't too agressive, and they would rather run than fight, but they can still be nippy on occasion :P

Cute! :kewl:

thanks dwarfs, and thank you shadow. i just went down to the lfs after work today and the guy said he wasn't planning on ordering any of these guys for awhile but if i came down there tommorrow i could take a look at the list and he would place an order for me if they were on the list he has to choose from. he said it may take up to a month to get them.:( i really want to get a pair of these guys breeding. i haven't had any fry around since i got rid of my female cons.

Very nice geo Cich. Quite fancy having a go with them myself.

thank you cichlas, yeah they are an interesting fish aren't they?

I like that geo cich.

thanks alex, i'll get some pics up of it in the 55, with sand the fish is much happier now.

so i got a reply on another board saying, my fish could in fact be geophagus altifrons and not surinamensis because my fish lacks the dark blotch on it's flanks. what are your guys thoughts on this? every pic in aqualog of surinamensis has a dark blotch on it's flank and altifrons has none. here are a couple new pics. sorry they are so crappy, the fish is rather skittish when it comes to the camera and my tank has water spots all over it. :shy:

:banghead:

Cich....

Altifrons are like 100x better than surinemensis :lol:

My first thoughts were altifron aswell. But im no pro...

Sicky....I'm not sure that going by the "splotch" is going to be indicitave of the species....I'm certainly not an expert with these fish, but the image searches I did found pictures of both species with and with out the dark spot....I suspect their may be a lot of confusion regarding these two species....my suggestion would be to try to find out who originally described these two species, and try to find the two descrptions, and make a judgment based off of that...

Im pretty sure its an altifron.

It doesnt look like any surin I have seen. It looks WAY better. IMO anyway...

Here is a pic of a friend of mine...its altifron....

btw the spoltch means pretty much nothing. You cannot really ID them going by that.

thanks fellas, yeah i pretty much knew that about the blotch, but hey i was grasping at straws i think.:lol:

i think time will tell what fish i actually have, from what i hear altifrons is rarely exported so that may be a long shot.

Wow that is one sweet fish. I love the green with the long red fins! I might have to get one some day!

geo's kick ass i think.:D

a couple more...

I love that Geo. Pretty colors! :tup:

:kewl: Beautiful fish!

thanks guys.:)

i found 3 more of these geo's down at the lfs and i am prepping them to go into the 55 right now. hopefully i will get a breeding pair out of them someday.

Ya know......I think I need some more Geos...

the other 2 are hiding but this guy posed for the camera. :laugh:

these guys are considerably smaller than the first one i bought.

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whats the agression like? im looking at setting up a peaceful tank soon.

Do they like to pair off or harem breed?

the only aggression i have noticed was between eachother(amounts to alot of chasing not much else).

surinamensis will pair off and breed, but steindachneri i believe is a harem breeder.