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I was wondering if anyone could tell me about these fish or the calvus species or that might be the same I don't know.

Come on people.

Compressiceps..comes in alot of different variants, gold heads, yellow, firefins, etc.
Usually its hard to get a hold of a large one, and these are really slow growers. Usually are ambush feeders, so they do eat small fish and fry.

Calvus..also in different variants, white, black, inkfin, congo inkfin, etc.
These are also hard to get a large one. These also are ambush feeders.

Usually they are kept solo or in trios or large colonies. They are aggressive among each other, but not the point of death, i would say they are more territorial.

A good pellet food or flake is great, as long with some vegetable matter (like spirulini sp?)

These are pretty $$. Wild ones are sometimes available, but will make a hole in your pocket. If you are trying to start a colony, get ones at least 1-2", smaller ones grow REALLY slow.

Hope this helped.