Geophagus Tapajos | Care Guide & Species Profile

This is a care guide and species profile on the Geophagus Tapajos. We discuss proper tank size and tank mates for the Rehead Tapajos, as well as the growth rate and water parameters recommended for these cichlids.

Overall they are relatively peaceful for a cichlid and they stay a bit smaller than other Geophagus, making for a great fish to keep.

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Thanks for watching, and we’ll see you next week!

[CichlidBros]

Links to food I use with Geophagus tapajos (now pyrocephalus):

[ringo]

Great video about the species. Found this video a while ago and i fell inlove with the tapajos. Now i got 7 also.

[mihaiboldor]

Great video. Really good info, I would dare say it's the best video out there on this species!

[oldeunclebobby]

Great video. I love Geophagus myself as well. There are 9 Tapajos I am currently growing out are just behind yours. Amazingingly lovely guys!

[trevorgregori]

Great video and information. Currently growing out 3 that I purchased at my local LFS. They love those xtreme pellets and krill flakes.

[RaulsAquaticsandReptiles]

Very informative video. Great detail. And some very beautiful fish. 💪🏼

[amtravelsaus]

I seriously love this fish, great video & great info, loved it heaps, Thankyou :)

[sixtdenied]

Such beautiful fish! Thanks for sharing!

[Sword_Massacre]

Love your videos, ater looking into starting a few fish tank Ive really grown to love cichlids! These videos help me see and learn more anout them, thank you!!

[MotörheadMickey]

Ma fav fish of all time!

Some time last year I bought a pair, teeny tiny 1in pair of Geophagus. I was super happy but... I never saw them. The larger they grew, the more reclusive and the more violent to each other. So, finally I took them to ma shop to ID them and... (tension) I was growing out two male geophagus altifrons 😲
As pretty as they were, they got swapped for a pair of Redheads roughly the same size, about 3.5in.
Around xmas I'm upgrading the tank and then, I'm getting more of them from the same batch. Until then, the two just keep on sifting 😁
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[darciegirl]

You have got some great fish there my friend lovely !

[MisfitTonyX]

I have three of these in my 90 gallon tank, my favorite Geophagus

[rorylennon]

Hi cichlid bros, nice video. Some of the geophagus get a beautiful marking on the body like dripping watercolor, especially balzanii. I remember seeing a tank with 10 or so geophagus suranemsis with long streamers that was amazing. At the moment I'm trying to get a culture of daphnia going continuously for live food for killifish. I'll do a video sometime...

[zafishguy]

They are great fish. A lot of nice geos out there.

[JDpivot]

May consider getting some, them being small is perfect and i need more geo since the only 2 i have fight all the time :P

[donnmartin]

Great video and information.I will be going to pick up 4 or 5 Geos.To go with my 3 Electric Blue Acara 2 Angelfish and 6 Congo Tetras in my 90gallon.Should I slowly add a couple of Geo's at a time as not to have a sudden swing in water parameters?

[freshwatertanks]

they are looking great! 😃 i keep mine with rosy tetras! lemon tetras didn‘t work out.

[tommyblansett]

Great video! Unfortunately, I never had this fish. When I am in position to start back keeping fish, this is one of the fish I would like to keep in a 300 gallon aquarium with Severum (Banded cichlid, Heros efasciatus); Macaw Cichlid (Nic, Hypsophrys nicaraguensis); Spotted Pictus catfish (Pimelodus pictus); Horsefaced loach (Acantopsis dialuzona); Skunk corycat (Corydoras arcuatus); Spotted cory (Corydoras ambiacus); Freshwater Butterfly fish (Pantodon buchholzi); Clouded Archerfish (Toxotes blythii); Peter's elephant-nose fish (Gnathonemus petersii); Giant danios (Devario aequipinnatus) and a couple of Clown loach (Chromobotia macracanthus).

[BONPE]

I have a group of 15 love them. Mine love water changes and brineshrimp, live daphina

[darrenbarbet]

Hi guys, great video as always, go to you guys a lot for inspiration and advice. Looking for advice now too. I have a 4ft 350 litre tank with Peacocks and Haps. I have a huge venustus that is now 9” and an eye biter at 8”, the peacocks are all in the 6” range and I feel they are now too big and need a bigger tank. I can’t go for bigger due to expense and space so was thinking to re home the Malawi and change for Tapajo and severum. Would the tank I have be ok long term for a group of tapajo and maybe a couple of severum? Keep up the good work 👍 Cheers Darren (UK 🇬🇧)