My Female Green Terror

[Tonym]

Thought I'd share a photo of my female GT Maud.
 

 

[gmc1]

Nice.what size?

 

[Tonym]

Its about 5.5 to 6 inches so it still has some growing to do.

 

[CSnyder00]

Nice fish!

 

[LyraGuppi]

She's beautiful

 

[Ace_Of_Fades]

She's a beauty, just curious, do you have any tankmates with her?

 

[Tonym]

Theres an Oscar, Crenicichla Sveni, Salvini and a fossil cat fish.

 

[Ace_Of_Fades]

Interesting, I have two very aggressive male convict cichlids that I needed to be separated so I went out and bought another tank. Now they just seem lonely, I've been looking around and some say oscars would work well with convicts. Would you agree?

 

[Ace_Of_Fades]

You can read more about them HERE
Let me know.

 

[Tonym]

It all depends on the tank size really, a single oscar on its own with nothing else is going to need to be housed in a 55g. When adding other fish there is lots to be considered do you have the space, the filtration capacity, the temperament of the fish as larger Cichlids can be a real handful. My tank works because they are in 6ftx2ftx2ft and they have plenty of space.A good way to start keeping Oscar is getting a 75g - 90g and having a shoaling fish like Silver Dollars or Giant danios and one of the convicts which should work in a tank that size IMO. The real key to having sucess keeping them would be by doing as much research on the fish as you can.

 

[CSnyder00]

I've kept Convicts and Oscars together. I had mine in a 75 gallon tank. The Oscar was 14 inches long! Tonym is right in saying tank size will help determine how much they tolerate each other. Cichlids are tough sometimes.

 

[Ace_Of_Fades]

So I guess where to go from here would be to get a bigger tank. Thanks for the input guys.

 

[RobRocksFishTank]

That's a good looking female. I would have pegged it for a male.

 

[Tonym]

I think its a female as she tried to pair off with a geophagus brasiliense which was a male.

 

[RobRocksFishTank]

That long dorsal fin tells me otherwise. I could be wrong though.