Treats from Duisburg 2002 ( part 2 )

[Rikk]

some yellow

[Rikk]

yellow 2

[Rikk]

yellow 3

[Rikk]

other surprise

LOOK AT THOSE COLOURS
PERFECT TANKMATES

[Rikk]

GHOST

[Rikk]

GIANTS

Look at my hands and look then back to the fish
i am 1,90 meter so my hands are big also !!

[DarkDiscus]

Impressive! I like yellows 2&3 and the tank of big red hand sized fish.

BTW - Can you keep Geophagus with discus? I would think they can be too aggressive.

John

[Rikk]

some species are too agressive

but a lot of geophagus you can keep along

they don´t eat agressive
the are mouth breeders - so no territorium
they are slow movers

the biotodoma´s cupido, the proximus family ( as shown ) and the acarichterys heckelli is good possible
if you want too know more i have too search in my books

but if you want i can get more famelies
fantastic colours on those fishes !!

[DarkDiscus]

Rik,

I have kept 4 different Geos in my fishkeeping days, and I'd love to hear of any additional ones which are good with discus for future reference. Thanks!

John

[ronrca]

Same here! They are beautiful fish! Would look really good in my 90G! More info would be sweet! Thanks! Just pardon me as I wipe the drrooll off my screen and keyboard! :P :P

[Rod]

WOW Rik, nice pics of great discus and those geo's look awesome. I have actually kept and bred that species in your picture so was specially pleased to see them. I have to disagree with your statement though about them being suitable tankmates with discus, they are quite aggressive feeders and although they are mouthbreeders as you noted, they are actually primitive mouthbreeders which are quite different to the normal mouthbreeders. The primitive mouthbreeder actually lays the eggs in the normal substrate spawning cichlid manner (eg....on a rock) then covers the eggs with gravel to hide them. When they hatch out the parents then pick them up and mouth brood them in the normal manner. so you can see from this that they do actually need a territory. A truely beautiful species to keep, those ones in the photos will be even better as they mature more, the ventral and unpaired fin filaments will get twice that length yet. ;D

Nice job Rik

[BLUEKNIGHT]

I really like the white butterfly and the yellow.