does anyone have a green terror

[mattgeezer]

Originally Posted by tmgrash

Green terrors are cool cichlids. Not too good on my liters to gallons conversions, but assuming 65ltrs is between 30-40 gals one adult green terror would probably be about max for that tank. This isnt because of the bio load but more due to the territorial needs. You could have a pleco, and a hardy 4-5" catfish, prehaps a pair convict cichlids (mean little buggers).


Good luck, have any pics?

Travis

picks coming your way in a day or so travis , i cant take him back hes way too cool he is special enough to have his own territory with other south american cichlids ,these electric yellows hes in with at the moment are just picking the **** out of him , i never really had a clue on how psychotic the yellows can be . it seems that they have pretty much territorised the whole tank, so its time for him to move in his own tank 1 us gallon = 3.71 litres
cheers
matt

[mattgeezer]

Originally Posted by OoNickoC

Well the one we had on display at work was about 18"......and the gold tetra is probably a gold barb if hes hanging with the africans. The terrors get big and are great lookers.....hardy to boot. As for the differennces in hardnes for water it is true that the africans perfer the hard, S. american soft...but most tap water is suitable for them. Ask your LFS what they do to treat thier ph for FW....most ikley nothing as consistency is key over perfection unless your breeeding. IF you end up keeping him hell make an awesome pet.

the guy at the live fish store told me that the terror was from africa !!!!
i told him he should start over and learn something off 3reef because some info he has given me has a lot left to be desired if you know what i mean. I read up on them and im getting excited as you said they get to 18"..... thats cool

[mattgeezer]

if anyone wants to check out my green terror ( photography a bit crappy ...sorry

[Matt Rogers]

Nice pattern on that guy. Looks cool!

[Birchell]

Looks good!! I just sold mine, to make room for my new salt tank. I had him for like 4 years!! Good personality, and down right mean. I had a texas cichlid with him for like a year, then one day the terror had enough of staying on one side of the tank and beat the crap out of the texas!! Lets just say I had to sell him really fast.

[Birchell]

PS: he was in a 55g tank ( 208 liters ) with a pair of pictus catsfish. In the pic he is around 10inchs long, and like 1 inch thick, lol. Really cool fish. And will get more territorial as it get older, at first it will be a realy easy going fish, then around 5-6 inchs they seem to get more aggressive. Ive had 3 of them in my FW days. Good luck,


Michael

[mattgeezer]

thats one cool fish michael im trying to talk my mrs in letting me buy another tank(shes not budging at all:mad: ) bigger one than the 2 ft i was planning to put him in. but now considering putting the africans in the 2ft terror in big tank !!!! the aggression tank add some convicts just to mix it up a bit, ill keep you all posted

[OoNickoC]

[quote=mattgeezer;356853]the guy at the live fish store told me that the terror was from africa !!!!
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Wow, I would pick on him....lol. I really like green terrors, they develop similar personalities to arthron puffers if kept in a solitary tank with some bottom feeders. Good luck on convincing mom....

[Birchell]

Yea. But mom know best, . Mine would fight your face if you got to close to "his" tank. It was so cool. I realy miss him, and with I could find a reef safe fish with that personality. But most the fish ive seen so far will hide, or just wiggle for food and go back to whatever they were doing, .

[mattgeezer]

mom knows everything :mad: she should join 3reef , i added 5 new neon tetras today , i believe that their days are numbered as the electric yellows and the terror are rounding them up like a sheep dog does with sheep...lol.