I love the scaping you did on this tank. The fish really show up in it. They are beautiful! Adding these to my wish list lol.

Spectacular looking fish! I had never seen it before.

Beautiful fish. Once again JoAnna. You’re killing it with the aqua scapes. Love it.

Beautiful scaping with gorgeous fish. Thank you for sharing them.

Gorgeous fish and gorgeous scape. I just love watching your videos, you guys rock!

They’re so beautiful! Nice job on the tank :)

That is an extremely beautiful fish. Thank you for sharing them with us.

The Heckelii are beautiful!!! Nice contrast between them and the dark wood. I also like the val along the back. I used to keep bigger cichilds years ago but after using all live plants they were slowly phased out. Still love the cichilds. I do have some albino Apistogrammas. And also other varieties if them. Great video.👍

Wow that looks amazing great job guys, I love good aquascapes!

That is a gorgeous fish! Beautiful tank set too.

Absolutely incredible!! I was told and shown with full grown and babies to Check the head shape (sideways between the eyes ) one is flatter and longer(male) and the other has a slight rounded shape(female) I could have been given misinformation of course but the four I have found their pair i believe I’m no expert.

Gorgeous additions!

Absolutely amazing fish, beautiful tank good job on those fish and the tank. fun to watch

Their absolutely gorgeous!!

Beautiful fish. Tank looks amazing 😁 Nice work.

You guys did a great job 👏

Just got two of these albino Hecklii for my 75 gallon....added them to 4 tapajos and 2 electric blue acaras....they are doing very well been in for a week.....sifting through the sand, bullying the tapajos but running from the acara....they are great fish and beautiful.... paid $90 for 2 of them around 2 inches each

Beautifuly, amazing fish. 🇬🇧

Beautiful fish. Definitely worth the tank update effort 🙂

They are beautiful.

This may be one of the best looking fish in the hobby. The colors are unreal!

Really beautiful fish & setup.

My current favorite too. I have 7 in a 45 gallon growout and I am movingvthem to a 340 gallon latter this month. I am amazed at how much they eat and their rapid growth rate. They will be in the 340 with another favorite, the red head tapajos

Beautiful looking fish

Absolutely love theses 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 xx

The are stunning! Love them. The changes to the tank also look great!

From the scape to the fish just stunning.💯👍great job.✌️

I just redid my 60 gallon yesterday. Wish I would have waited. Love your 'scape (and the albino heckelii!! Great job guys and Happy Labor Day!

so beautiful Tanks.

Wow nice fish you have! Love from the Philippines

These fish are stunners! Wow! I was thinking you had a holding female (@2:10, 2:50) but you then said they’re all males and then realized they are egglayers. Love the scape also 👍🏼

One of my favorite geophagus!! I have a school of brasiliensis and these are my next pick for sure! 🤩🙌

Happy Monday. Joanna’s done the fish proud with the scape, both look amazing. It will be interesting to see how the val grows in 👌

Gorgeous 😍

Gorgeous fish and scape

Beautiful..

I bought 4 today,really beatiful.

I have one in my 90 gallon geophagus tank its a beautiful center piece

Just got my Albino Heckeli from dallas fish gallery! Such a beautiful store!

So beautiful, any suggestions on what they can be kept with?

It’s beautiful

Just got one! He’s beautiful 🤩

Awesome video! Even though I don't keep these fish, it is still very informative! :)

Wow beautiful!

That fish is on my “unicorn fish” wish list. Stunning! Thanks!

I just bought a pair of these recently a rare fish to find my lfs had bred these..not cheap!! A beutiful stunning fish I finally gave in a bought them!

The Albino Hecklii is all class! 😎👌🏻 I wish I could find some here in Australia!

Wow! Wonderful looking aquascaping job! And HECK! The fish are basolutely stunning! Have a greqt week! ~~Ms. PrimeMate **grin**

Good Morning. I love your tanks! ❤️

Oh, that's nice! 😁

Amazing big geophagus fanatic here just bought 4 albino heckeli, can't wait to see them grow out they're about winches now.

Very nice tank and beautiful fishes First watch on Instagram and now on KZfaq Very very beautiful indeed ☺️👍😍

Nice looking fish.

Hey J&J Man those are sweet ! What a great looking fish.

I got 3 of the non-albino versions of this fish when you got yours. I ended up with just one male. But he is beautiful. One of my favorites.

love it

Joanna that’s a great job on scaping that tank! Scapeing? Skaping? My spell check thinks all three of those are wrong, lol. I love these fish, they are super cool! I have a 65g that has ecocomplete and black sand in it. The original plan was to put discus and lots of plants. Instead, it wound up being parrot fish and cichlids! So I have fake and live plants, too. I added geophagus tapajos to keep the sandbed filtered (and I swear he’s the only fish that really does his job well), and a bristlenose pleco to keep the algae at bay. Everything looked beautiful for the first nine months. It was filled with anubius and water sprite and ludwegia and jungle val and octopus plant. This tank really works, there’s always something going on and the cichlids have babies all the time so it must be pretty balanced. The sand, though - I love them all dearly, but I’m also sad because the parrot fish and cichlids spend their days digging up the sand to make fishy forts. My beautiful planted tank dreams started to crumble about three months ago. They’ve split the tank in half and dart in and out of each other’s territory like kids having a snowball fight. Plant after plant would be ripped out and sucked into the filter or stripped of leaves in the fray. It really started to look like a barren war zone in there. After a while I noticed that some of the live plants were being ignored, but most of it wouldn’t stay down no matter what I did. So I re-planted the floaters into other tanks, left the plants they ignored alone and added some realistic-looking, tall silk plants along the back of the tank so the top third wasn’t so empty. My fish leave the fake plants alone for the most part, and if they do get loose, they are easy to put back. I can’t tell you which live plants work and which don’t because for example, my sword plant in one corner is thriving, but they dug up the other one. I think it’s more of a digging problem than an eating problem. The parrot fish are worse than the cichlids because they are a bit durpier and clumsier when they barrel around so they cause more damage. But I’m much happier now because I don’t have to keep re-planting, and they’re happier because they don’t have to re-make their forts all the time or put up with my hands in the tank again. So fake plant haters, sorry - but sometimes they are valuable and this is one of those times!

Fantastic colonization on the fish. Not much on albino fish but this would cause me to reconsider my thinking. Wonder how they would do with African yellow labs for an all yellow aquarium.

Just stunning Fish, what a Showcase Tank! I think some Bolbitis Heudelotii would look great in place of that plastic plant. ;)

Stunning!! Do they normally sit on the bottom of the tank? Love to get some to add to my tanks but really expensive in Australia and hard to find.

Seen these today but the normal color variety and i couldn't stop looking at them! I wanted them badly! But my 120 is Apistogramma and pencilfish so guessing these guys are way too big for them? Incredible fish to say the least

The fish are so still that I thought I was looking at a photograph at first!

Farmer Jo did a nice job as always. Nice fish but not a super red 😉.

I absolutely LOVE these fish. Wish I could have some. But my biggest tank is 67 gallons.

Could you please make a species profile for this beautiful fish? Would also love a profile for Thorichthys meeki ... and any of the other South/Central American cichlids around 5-7" you haven't covered yet! Love your informational videos and I'd be lost without them.

Nice!

Awesome setup, like the contrast 👌 I have 2 albino left from the pack of 6, and also i have 4 normal heckelii . My question is what should i do for them to show up that colour yellow/orange ish around their top part ?

Hi nice video, just got two of them. What filteration system did u used for that aquarium?

Hi, does it go well with red head geophagus? Who's more aggressive out of both?

Hello from Houston TX USA, I'm requesting of information on sapphire blue parrot fish any insight on tank mates and other info may help please

Beautiful Aquarium! Aquascape and fish look gorgeous! How large will they get? Would they get along with Red Top Tapajos?

Beautiful fish, Looked online after watching the video. Of the few locations I could find they appeared to be of lesser quality, at least in the photos they included, Do you have a suggested source or care to share where you sourced yours?

gold rams on steroids 😳

How big do the albino heckelli grow to. Please. Thank you.

hi Jason and Joanna please can you tell me if the Acarichthys Heckelii is a member of the geophagous family and if their breeding and water conditions are very similar? I first saw this fish in your fish room tour videos and thought they was amazing Paul from the UK

I have one of these in a 40 gallon bow front that I had to take out of my 125 how long do you think I could keep him in that 40 gallon, he's the only one in the tank and right now he is barely 4 in, any opinion appreciated

I just bought two and they won’t quit fighting. Was thinking of retuning one or possibly buying 1-3 more. They are in a 95g. Any suggestions?

? We started with 4 mystery snails 6 months ago now have over 80 in a 55 gal aquarium. Can't even give them away. What should we do?

Do you sell these kind of fish

Where did you buy the albino heckelii from? I'm from the s.s. of chicago, and I'm willing to drive an hour or more if need be to pick out and purchase these guys. Thanks, guys.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who still has a fake plant or two hiding in the tank 😆

Are they good sand sifters?

I have a question about these fish. There are a lot of places where they call them Acara's. Is this acurate or no? Thanks

You must keep them with sand or 1mm gravell. They filter for food

Joanna beautiful rescape!

Are these fish aggressive? I have a Siamese algae eater, a couple small rainbows and an angel so I was curious if they would be problematic?

How big will they get to be?

This looks like bigger than a 75g! 4:55 Jason, are you sure it’s a 75g?

My guppie just had babies

How large will they grow?

Can we keep with Oscars, they are 3 to 4 inch size?

Can I keep hekelii alone? I have 20 parrot fishes..

Aren’t they sand sifting fish?

Will Acarichthys heckelii survive in

So my wife did a thing yesterday and came home with 3 pictus cats. I've never had them, and they look awesome, but I'm a little concerned about them potentially eating my panda Cory's once they hit mature size. I have 125gal tank and I read that the pictus are usually non aggressive, but I've also read that they are very opportunistic eaters and will eat anything they can get in their mouth (typical catfish) meaning smaller fish, and my pandas are quite small. Anybody have any experience with these fish that can chime in and ease my mind or do the opposite?

My goal is to find a male beta that can live longer than 6 months. Man I wish I could get betas from aquarium co-op but sadly they don't deliver to Taiwan

Well……there’s another tank I gotta set up.

God those blow any earth eater other than German Rams out of the water.

Such a beautiful fish but its a shame they feel the need to dig up plants as that puts them off my list.

Beautiful fish..a bit to sensitive