Topic: Lip Locking Geophagus

[Tim]

My geophagus are lip locking and one has taken up to hiding. I seperated them into two tanks, I originally thought it was courting but it seems vicious.

[OCP]

My GT's did that shortly after the female laid her second batch of eggs.  She is about half his size but held her ground.  Dad was relegated to the far corner of the tank keeping all the other fish corralled and far away from the eggs.  The power of a woman at any size   

[tracey]

Geophagines are known for their aggression towards their own species and other conspecific species    You can have them in a tank full of fish and they won't bother any of them, but add another Geo and its all-out war    Don't worry, they're pretty dang hardy fish.  My pair of G. surinamensis kick the snot out of each other all the time and I've never seen anything more than a mild scrape or a small tear in a fin.  My Oscars get worse scrapes just swimming around their tank 

What size are they, Tim?  These guys do take a while to get to sexual maturity, but they will pair up and court quite a while before they're ready to breed.