Cichlids: Green Severum and Geophagus Jurapari

I can't remember exactly when I got the cichlids. They were both about 4" long when I got them. The Green Severum is about 7" long now. They're also visible in the background of some of the other pictures.

They called the lighter one a Geophagus ("dirt-eater") Jurapari when I bought it at Pet'smart, but you can read for yourself at the Jurapari Project that this name is obsolete. I'm not exactly what species the one I had falls into. I say "had" because I found him floating belly-up in the aquarium on May 5, 2001. He had suffered from a bit of the hole-in-the-head disease for quite some time, but I hadn't notice anything else unusual. He was 8" from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail when he died. I'd had him for at least three years, and he was the first fish to die in my tank in many months.


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8/11/2000


8/12/2000