Benny Posted May 6, 2002 Report Share Posted May 6, 2002 who here has kept the earth eating cichlid? Mine are curently 4" inch juveniles. Does anyone know the potential size or how to sex them and hence how to breed them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted May 7, 2002 Report Share Posted May 7, 2002 I've got two of them. Hmmm...I think mine are somewhere around 4" I've had them for over a year and they seem to have pretty much stopped growing. So, I'd guess 4" is about full grown. Definitely not juvenile anyway. No ideas on sexing them. Here's a link for some info. http://www.fishprofiles.com/profiles/cichlids/jurupari.asp Looks like they get up to about 9 inches. I'm horrible at estimating fish sizes, maybe I should grab one of mine out of the tank and hold a ruler against him. Hope he's bigger than 4 inches if 9 is their potential size, otherwise I'd wonder if he's being stunted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted May 7, 2002 Report Share Posted May 7, 2002 My book says they grow to 25cm and are hard to sex but the male is slimmer and his genital papilla is pointed whereas the female's is short and blunt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warren Posted June 13, 2002 Report Share Posted June 13, 2002 I've got a couple of Jurupari left (about 150mm/6 inches long). They do indead get 250mm long. I've also got 1 Surinamensis left. It is 220mm long. They get pretty big too. The males typically have much longer fins, and long thin trailing edges off the fin tips. Males also have a flatter belly. The females tend to look a bit more like Thunderbird 2 in the belly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted June 22, 2002 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2002 what other geophagus are available here? the geophagus brasiliensis males are the nicest fish I have ever seen! http://www.tangledupincichlids.com/images/brasil.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted June 22, 2002 Report Share Posted June 22, 2002 From that picture I'd have to say I prefer Geo. Surinamensis. I don't like the shape of the brasiliensis's head. Looks like the elephant man or something. Still, I wouldn't mind a pair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted June 22, 2002 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2002 yeah it does have a big hump. It looks a bit like a green terror. Does anyone have a pic of g. surinamensis? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midas Posted June 22, 2002 Report Share Posted June 22, 2002 I had a G. balzani once. Had it till about 5" then I think it succumbed to the cammalanus worms I had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted June 22, 2002 Report Share Posted June 22, 2002 Here's a picture of one. Not a very good picture but seems to be the best I could find. Doesn't show their green glitter at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted June 22, 2002 Report Share Posted June 22, 2002 here's a slightly better picture. From what I've read about them there are 3-4 slightly different fish that are sold as geophagus surinamensis. One of them is this, Geophagus altifrons. They only really differ in coloring, pattern and body shap stay the same. Don't know about the US if there are different strains or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajbroome Posted June 23, 2002 Report Share Posted June 23, 2002 Benny said... > what other geophagus are available here? G. steindachneri (G. hondae) is sometimes available. Nice, smaller species that's pretty easy to breed (a maternal mouthbrooder). I bred a bunch of them years ago... Andrew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CID in OZ Posted August 28, 2002 Report Share Posted August 28, 2002 Nice pics of the Surinamensis types Ira Pic posted on the 22nd June is Geophagus brachybranchus by the looks of it should develop a black throat and black cheek marks lavaphile delayed mooth brooder to 25cm Pic posted June is Geophagus altifrons ovaphile advanced mouthbreeder to 30 cm Great fish with lots of geovarients Check out South American Eartheaters book by Thomas Wiedner The best available book on Geophagines By the looks of your import list you can import pretty well any Geophagine (Geophagus, Satanoperca & Gymnogeophagus) *drools over keyboard* Chris D 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted August 28, 2002 Report Share Posted August 28, 2002 Unfortunately Chris there is a big difference between what we can import and what they will import! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CID in OZ Posted August 30, 2002 Report Share Posted August 30, 2002 Yep its always the way eeh Caryl I take it the number of importers is limited and they only see bread and butter fish for the trade from Asia :roll: Do your importers have the same restrictions as ours? Lisenced quarantine room Exporter has to be lisenced to ship to importer or the importers just aren't interested because of the small market ? :evil: Chris D 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted August 30, 2002 Report Share Posted August 30, 2002 As we have the toughest importation regs in the world I would say our importers have even more restrictions than yours. The small market doesn't help either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CID in OZ Posted September 1, 2002 Report Share Posted September 1, 2002 Didn't I read in one of the other sections where an importer was asking for species that were on peoples want list ? Was it a deadend and nothing happened ? It just seems strange that someone offers a "carrot" so to speak and then leaves you hanging instead following up and negotiate a breeding agreement to resupply them with fry for uncommon stock :-? Chris D 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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