andinoacara rivulatus

[HUKIT]

For some color and a cool rareness factor I'd do a bocourti and stop listening to the other riff raff giving advice about ridiculous fish

 

[Freakgecko91]

Hey now, don't knock uaru!

But I would agree, go with a good sized fish with personality, and aggression usually does mean more personality


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[mikem691]

Just buy a Hoplias aimara and be done with it.


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I might as well just get a T Rex....

 

[mikem691]

For some color and a cool rareness factor I'd do a bocourti and stop listening to the other riff raff giving advice about ridiculous fish

Cool looking but seems impossible to find.

 

[HUKIT]

Cool looking but seems impossible to find.

Not terrible, they are on GCCA a couple times a year and were just listed on Aquabid last week.

 

[mikem691]

Not terrible, they are on GCCA a couple times a year and were just listed on Aquabid last week.

I keep forgetting to look on GCCA. I'm going to get the tank up and running this week end. Then Ill look and see what's offered on there.

 

[HUKIT]

I keep forgetting to look on GCCA. I'm going to get the tank up and running this week end. Then Ill look and see what's offered on there.

Swap meet is next month, always a worth a look and a good way to kill Sunday morning.

Swap Meet - 12/7 -GCCA Events

Expo is this weekend too.

http://aquaticexperience.org/

 

[mikem691]

Uaru are pretty dull, not a wet pet. Not kept the chocolate cichlid but considered it before. I think both would be good with Severums in a very large tank, with fairly warm water a little more on the acidic side than neutral and with very peaceful tank mates not too small to be eaten. That would be the best way to keep them.
I think good wet pets would be the ones already recommended, although I like the original idea of the Rivulatus. If you get good stock with nice colours they're a great centrepiece, just not as unusual as some of the others recommended.


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Good stock seems to be hard to come by. I saw a few videos of some stunning looking Rivulatus but most didn't have the color or finage (finage is that even a word) The few that were big and colored up brought me to this question.

 

[Fishy Smell]

Yeah, I'm in the UK so it's no good advising you where to go really. I got mine from a branch of Maidenhead aquatics purely by luck. Maidenhead aquatics are not your typical chain store over here, they have some of the best stocks you can get your hands on. There are individual stores dotted around which are a bit better and certainly have rarer stock, but the ones in question are around 2 hours journey. There are other standard stores that might get one once every six months that someone has traded but it's pure luck if you manage to get one. Anyway, here's the best pics I could get of mine, they don't do him justice but show the colours. Apparently he originated from German breeders.


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[Fishy Smell]

To be fair, that meet in Chicago sounds great, but it's a 9 hour flight for me, so not likely to happen!


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[Cichlid ism]

Swap meet is next month, always a worth a look and a good way to kill Sunday morning.

Swap Meet - 12/7 -GCCA Events

Expo is this weekend too.

http://aquaticexperience.org/

Who will be going to the Expo this weekend? I hear it's much better this year.


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[mikem691]

And the decision is ............well lets see who can guess. It is one of the suggested fish (at least its suppose to be) So which one is it?

 

[HUKIT]

I was shocked to see them there too, amphilophus lyonsi don't pop up...ever! I can't wait to see how it goes.

 

[mikem691]

I got him at the bolingbrook location

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[mikem691]

He's very outgoing already and ate a couple pellets.

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[HUKIT]

Congrats Mike I'm certainly a little jealous as I've always wanted some. My fish room is down due to sheer laziness but I was tempted to grab six or seven of them.

 

[mikem691]

Thanks HUKIT I really appreciate all the help and info you and the others have given me.

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