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Description
Red Spotted Gold Severum Cichlid Heros Efasciatus
Overview
Description
Care
The Red-spotted Gold Severum is a selectively bred colour form of the Green Severum. The wild form is known from tributaries of the Rio Ucayali in Peru and eastwards to the Solimões-Amazon River in Brazil. Here, it inhabits floodplain lakes and the slow-moving parts of rivers that are thick with marginal vegetation and submerged tree roots. The aquarium should be spacious, with a soft sand substrate and plenty of hiding places/visual barriers created using driftwood, rocky caves, and robust planting such as Java Fern or Anubias sp. tied to the decor. Filtration should be efficient but water movement not too vigorous, and small frequent water changes will help keep nitrate to a minimum. Red-spotted Gold Severums are fairly easy-going for a cichlid of this size, and as such can be kept alongside other fish of similar size and temperament. They may be maintained in pairs or good-sized groups, but should a pair choose to spawn in a community setting, they will become much more aggressive towards the other fish. However, this should not present too much of a problem in very spacious aquaria. After a time, these fish learn to "recognise" their owner and often come to the glass to greet them or wait for food.
Feeding
Omnivorous and will accept most aquarium foods offered. Try to keep it varied with good quality carnivore and herbivore flakes, sinking pellets/sticks, and a mixture of frozen foods such as white mosquito larvae, bloodworm, vitamin-enriched brineshrimp, Mysis, krill, and chopped prawns, along with some fresh vegetable matter. Will avidly consume soft-leaved plants.
Breeding
A breeding aquarium should be set up with soft, acidic water and the pair acclimatised across. The temperature should be carefully raised to 30 °C. Some flat pieces of slate should be provided, which the fish will clean prior to laying the eggs on them. The female usually deposits between 200 and 1000 eggs onto the rocks, and these are then vigorously defended by both parents. The eggs should hatch after 48-72 hours, and once free-swimming the parents will be seen herding them to different areas or pits dug in the substrate. The young can be offered finely powdered flake foods and microworms. It is not unusual for parental care to last up to 6 weeks.
Overview
| Synonyms | Chromys appendiculata, C. fasciata, Cichlasoma severum perpunctatum, Heros appendiculatus, Uarus centrarchoides |
| Distribution | Original wild form is native to Brazil and Peru. |
| Maximum Size | 20cm (7.9") |
| Temperature | 23-29°C |
| Water Parameters | pH: 6.0-7.5, dH: up to 18 degrees. |
| Compatibility | Community with no small fish |
| Lighting | Dim-medium |
| Sexual Dimorphism | Mature males usually have more pointed dorsal and anal fins. |
| Feeding | Flake, granules, cichlid pellets and frozen foods |
Description
Care
The Red-spotted Gold Severum is a selectively bred colour form of the Green Severum. The wild form is known from tributaries of the Rio Ucayali in Peru and eastwards to the Solimões-Amazon River in Brazil. Here, it inhabits floodplain lakes and the slow-moving parts of rivers that are thick with marginal vegetation and submerged tree roots. The aquarium should be spacious, with a soft sand substrate and plenty of hiding places/visual barriers created using driftwood, rocky caves, and robust planting such as Java Fern or Anubias sp. tied to the decor. Filtration should be efficient but water movement not too vigorous, and small frequent water changes will help keep nitrate to a minimum. Red-spotted Gold Severums are fairly easy-going for a cichlid of this size, and as such can be kept alongside other fish of similar size and temperament. They may be maintained in pairs or good-sized groups, but should a pair choose to spawn in a community setting, they will become much more aggressive towards the other fish. However, this should not present too much of a problem in very spacious aquaria. After a time, these fish learn to "recognise" their owner and often come to the glass to greet them or wait for food.
Feeding
Omnivorous and will accept most aquarium foods offered. Try to keep it varied with good quality carnivore and herbivore flakes, sinking pellets/sticks, and a mixture of frozen foods such as white mosquito larvae, bloodworm, vitamin-enriched brineshrimp, Mysis, krill, and chopped prawns, along with some fresh vegetable matter. Will avidly consume soft-leaved plants.
Breeding
A breeding aquarium should be set up with soft, acidic water and the pair acclimatised across. The temperature should be carefully raised to 30 °C. Some flat pieces of slate should be provided, which the fish will clean prior to laying the eggs on them. The female usually deposits between 200 and 1000 eggs onto the rocks, and these are then vigorously defended by both parents. The eggs should hatch after 48-72 hours, and once free-swimming the parents will be seen herding them to different areas or pits dug in the substrate. The young can be offered finely powdered flake foods and microworms. It is not unusual for parental care to last up to 6 weeks.
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