2 pairs

[smoffit08]

i curently have 1 wild pair of gymnogeophagus gymnogennys arryo yerbalito and a wild pair of Gymnogeophagus labiatus "Rio Olimar" but i am having problems obtaing info on these fish as of care and cool down periods and breeding so if any one has these fish or nows anything i could use the help thank you i have been told to treat them like other geos but i seeing thats not gonna work so if you could please help let me no thank you

[Bas Pels]

Although keeping other G gymnogenys, I'd do the following:

1 keep them cool in winter - around 10 C, and than, when in summer they get warm, they will breed. Females do the caring for the fry, and as soon as the eggs hatch, and the fry (larvae) are developed - that is in 1 sometimes 2 days - I net them into a tank of 50 * 50 cm footprint - same temp, same water

Afer a while the female will release the fry, but I leave them alone, I only feed them. Approx 1 month after the fry are first seen, the female will relax her breeding behaviour, and netting her out is easy.

The fry are kept in this tank untill at least 2 cm and may be combined than, 1 species in a tank, obviously

The males of these species will not tolerate each other, and the females do look quite similar - therefore, NEVER combine them, or risk combining them (be certain a tank i free of fry, before using it for any other purpose, for instance)

the fry does grow slowly, very slowly indeed - My G gymnogenys of 5 cm were born in 2008

Good luck