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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Cichlids / January 2006Blue Acara Questions.
Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help me out with a few questions regarding Blue Acara's. I am looking at getting a 3 foot tank in the next couple of months and as thinking of getting a pair of blue acaras. I was just wondering if the tank I am getting will be ok for 2 Blue acaras or should I just get 1? And also what kind of fish can i keep with them? I was thinking along the lines of some Tiger barbs and Dwarf Gourami (maybe too small? so regular sized gourmi?) Also are they hard to get in australia? I don't want to get my heart set on them and find I can't get them or they are really hard to find. Finially how do you tell them apart from Green Terror's? I have been reading around this group/the internet and it appears that sometimes Green Terrors are sold as Blue Acaras? Thanks so much! Mariachi > Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help me out with a few questions > regarding Blue Acara's. > > I am looking at getting a 3 foot tank in the next couple of months and > as thinking of getting a pair of blue acaras. Might work fine, but they will probably spawn and it will get much more crowded in there. > I was just wondering if the tank I am getting will be ok for 2 Blue > acaras or should I just get 1? And also what kind of fish can i keep > with them? I was thinking along the lines of some Tiger barbs and Dwarf > Gourami (maybe too small? so regular sized gourmi?) I've never tried Dwarf gourami with Acaras, but the Acaras have a good temperament. Depending on the amount of shelter, rockwork, plants etc, I don't see the Acaras significantly limiting what other fish you can put in there. > Also are they hard to get in australia? I don't want to get my heart > set on them and find I can't get them or they are really hard to find. That I can't help with. They are reasonable available in Canada. > Finially how do you tell them apart from Green Terror's? I have been > reading around this group/the internet and it appears that sometimes > Green Terrors are sold as Blue Acaras? Google images for the two fish. I've only had Green Terrors a couple of times (passing through the shop), but I'm fairly certain that you can tell them apart, especially when they are side by side. iirc, the jawlines and their scale reflectivity along the sides was different, but google the images yourself (I have to go to work now). > Thanks so much! Mariachi hth  Signaturewww.NetMax.tk Previous posts follow. An excellent website for viewing many (if not all) of the aequidens species was posted by Alf at www.lem.net/alf/aeq.htm . True Green Terrors are not that similar to the Acaras, and it would be unlikely that they could be mixed up. However, most fish that are sold as Green Terrors here in the US are actually a species called Aequidens sp. Goldsaum, common name is (or should be) Gold Seam Cichlid or Goldsaum Cichlid. These are more similar in appearance to the Blue Acara, but not close enough that they could be confused. I know of only two sources for the true Green Terror, if anyone's interested I could pass that info along. Two Aequidens Pulcher (aka Blue Acara) in a 3ft tank is probably max. If you are interested in keeping tankmates, I would suggest Cichlids that are a bit docile, like Oscars, or Cichlids that like to duck and hide, like Jack Dempsey or Salvini -- However, *any* tankmates would require a larger aquaria. --Mark Stone >> Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help me out with a few questions >> regarding Blue Acara's. [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > hth The first fish I ever got for my (29 gal) tank were 2 Blue Acaras and I still have one of them (6 years later). When they grew big, one began to attack the other (I never knew what gender they were) and I was afraid it would become serious so I traded one to a LFS. I still have the other, along with a large Festivum and a large Firemouth, 3 Tiger Barbs and 2 Pictus Cats, and all are doing fine. The old Blue Acara went through a very bad case of Ick a few years ago, lost much finnage from it (which of course grew back) and the eyes got really cloudy and he (she?) had to be treated with antibiotics in a quarantine tank for a week (for a skin infection brought on by the Ick) but he made it. Since I gave the other one away (about 3 years ago) he's become somewhat timid (at times, but sometimes not). Sometimes I wish I still had both, mostly for that reason, but at the time it seemed the other one wanted to kill and I didn't dare keep them together. That's my experience with them. Maybe they were both males or something... Jody > Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help me out with a few questions > regarding Blue Acara's. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Thanks so much! Mariachi Do LFS accept baby Blue Acaras...say if my tank got a little crowded? Not for exchange or money or whatever..just to unload thm? > Do LFS accept baby Blue Acaras...say if my tank got a little crowded? > Not for exchange or money or whatever..just to unload thm? This really varies by store. Some have a policy against it. Most of them will, but you might need to speak to someone in authority. Call around. If they can take them, they usually need a little time to prepare a tank for them. Instead of giving them away, ask if you can have some fish food or supplies in trade (store credits). They are more likely to give you 50 cents per fish (as an example) in store credits as it really only costs them 25 cents (because of their mark-up when you spend the money). Mark, thanks for the link, bookmarked. It's remarkable how small and vulnerable looking the creeks these fish came from are. Signaturewww.NetMax.tk I have 2 blue acaras, a male & a female. The male is much bigger than the female, and I read that one sex has more pointed anal fins than the other, but I haven't noticed a difference. My acaras get along famously with bala sharks, even when they're breeding. They hate my convict and jewel, so I gave them their own 30 gal. tank. They still breed, but none of the eggs ever hatch, I don't know why. http://www.cichlidfish.com/portal/forums |
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