Wish I could give you an answer from experience, but I have never kept any GTP. I have nothing to base a comparrison on. I do know that there are probably more keepers of GTPs than emeralds. There are a lot of myths still going around about emeralds that simply aren't true. Personally, I became infatuated with emeralds when I saw my first one in the flesh, back in '77. No one at that time knew how to properly care for them, so the "attitude", "aggressiveness", "regurgitation prone", "bird eater" and "delicate" myths probably sprang from the initial learning curve associated with keeping them. It wasn't until the mid to late '80s that proper husbandry developed through trial and error, but unfortunately the myths still persist to this day. I wasn't able to realize my dream of keeping them until '98 when we got our first baby.

Craig