There has been little information on geos come through to us hobbyists since Thomas Weidner's eartheater book published in 2000 (still my bible), that is, available to english speaking geo hobbyists, i have begun translating articles on geos from german to english and i make those available to hobbyists on my blog as I complete them, (but it is often slow going)
Just another point I'd like to make: I recently had the pleasure to be able to contribute to the positive id on a specie of geo now in the country. My contribution was small, to translate a section of a german book on geos, but I enjoyed contributing in my way and figured maybe there are some other hobbyists who would enjoy being involved in something like this as well.... So I'm inviting any hobbyists who keep and/or breed , Geophagus sp. "Orange Head" of whichever variant, and is interested, to join in and get involved, to have a go with me to do something that I think will be interesting, worthwhile, satisfying and fun, and may just contribute something significant to the hobby we love. At the very least we will learn a lot about our fish.
Thomas Weidner emphasised the importance of the role that the average hobbyist/breeder would make to the future body of information regarding these fish, (I can't remember the actual quote but maybe someone else does?) So i can see an opportunity here for us hobbyists to work together, do some collaborative research and produce something worthwhile. So if you have these fish and are interested, come on board and help us out
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The question of orange head id comes up on every forum relating to geos and cichlids, yet is still not clarified. There are a lot of people with orange head 'Tapajos' in perth apparently, or are there?......Have a look at the pics below and compare to your fish and see what you think. But unfortunately it doesn't seem to be as simple as that
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Pic 1:
ORANGE HEAD TYPE 1 ----------------------------------------------------------- ORANGE HEAD TYPE 2
![](http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr145/Amazoniac/AraguaiavsTapajosGeophagusspOrangeH.jpg)
Pic 2:
![](http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr145/Amazoniac/tapa.jpg)
This actually began in another thread to do with g. sp. orange/red heads in the photo album section of this forum,
Basically, there are problems with the id of orange heads in this country. there seems to be problems with identifying orange heads globally, I have posted the same pic of the same orange head (Not the pics or fish shown above though) on a number of forums including eartheaters.com and got contradictory responses, and from people far more knowledgeable and experienced than me.
Anyway, my position is this:
The fish on the right in pic 1 is Geophagus sp. "Tapajos" 'Orange Head' and the fish on the left is Geophagus sp. "Araguaia" 'Orange Head'. The problem is that while I can see it, I can't prove it yet.
Cheers
Laz