Milet Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 Am about to start setting up my 250L tank and transferring fish into it in a week or so. My geophagus suranimensis is in a 150L tank at the moment and he likes to pick up the stones and spit them out (all day and all night long), but my new tank has a kind of coarse sand in it, will he still sift through the sand? Or should i stick to stones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ktttk Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 Sand would be perfect for the geophagus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milet Posted April 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 Awesome, thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 Definately as Ktttk said, Geos love sand, infact sand is better for them as substrate I am just setting up our 760 litre tank with river sand, for my Jurupari and Suri, and wussy pair of Jack Dempseys :lol: Awesome to see someone else that keeps Geos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herefishiefishie Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 As above comments. All will be fine. Frenchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowfax Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 mine are still only babies & 1 got a stone stuck in its mouth & i had to catch it & remove it so i'll be swapping to smaller grit when i replace their tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milet Posted April 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 mines fine at the moment with stones, but its so annyoing! Its so noisy at night and he doesnt stop doing it :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdspider Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 They look really cool with sand, instead of spitting it out the sand flies out their gills. As others have said, they're better off with sand than gravel. They keep the sand nice & clean too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milet Posted April 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 real? this next questions slightlty off topic, but is sand from the beach ok? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 Well rinsed and cleaned and it should be ok, yet I have gone and purchased my sand from a local landscape supplier, nice dark grey fine river sand.. Jurus look nicer on darker substrate (as do most fish) IMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon1990 Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 What is a good price for sand from a landscape supplier? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 25-30kg bags from the landscape suppliers are $7 a bag... or if I bought 4 it was $22 for all 4 bags, that's only of course up this way, I am sure landscapers down that way might run the same sort of deals? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon1990 Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 cool thanks. Is it very fine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 It is fine but reasonably heavy, I went with that as I didn't want a very light sand that flies up all over the place if that makes sense It is your basic dark grey river sand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon1990 Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 Do you think my kuhli and dwarf loaches will like it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 They would probably much prefer the light coloured very soft fine sand that you can get, yet I do know of people that have kept kuhlis and loaches with riversand as substrate. One of the reasons why sand is much better for earth sifting Geos is the fact it is not harsh on the insides of their mouths and gill plates... Sometimes Geos can also get larger substrate ie stones etc caught, and it's not good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milet Posted April 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 Are geos from the amazon? I was thinking about dividing up my tanks into biotopes and one was gonna be an amazon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidb Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 yep. i would love to have a nice big amazon tank with a freshwater ray, and discus as a biope- that would be cool... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milet Posted April 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 That would be real cool ay. Im just gonna start with my 4footer in the mean time tho. Its still just a plan but i think im going to take the Two angels, two severums, plecos and eartheater and put them in the amazon biotope and see how it looks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milet Posted April 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Will a Geo atack or eat anything smaller than it? Or is it mainly eating stuff off the substrate? Becuase i was going to put mine in with my grow out tank to clear out all the sand, but theres small fish like kuhli loaches, tetras baby BN, baby Guppies and more.\ ???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 What sort of Geo do you have? I keep Juru, Steinys and Suris, all very mallow, even have them in with Corydoras.. and they get on with their own thing sifting substrate, not bothered by anything. At breeding time Geos can get a bit stroppy, but even then they don't do anything major.. YET it does depend on what species you keep. Brasiliensis can cut up quite stroppy. IMO and going by experience of keeping the above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milet Posted April 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Ohhhok i got one suri, so that should be alright ay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 How big is your Suri, and how big are your Bristles etc? I have my Suri in with Corys, large tetras, Bristles etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milet Posted April 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Suri is about 7cm and all the other fish are between 1cm-3cm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Hmmmm :-? Baby bristles maybe not a good thing... and large tetras are fine ie Columbians etc but I wouldn't risk neons etc or anything small like that. The other thing is, the Kuhli share the substrate just as much as Suris do, but hide in it instead :lol: Wouldn't want the Suri thinking he was in worm central Suri's are not overly aggressive in nature, but I can't say that I would totally disregard the idea that they won't go for anything I would class as "pretty small" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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