How hard are Thorichthys ellioti to breed?

[Glacier]

I have seen a group of 6 for sale at a very reasonable price, and and thinking about trying to breed them. I just wondering how hard they are to breed (I'm quite a noob to breeding, only livebearers before really). I think it would be interesting to see fry care behaviour first hand, not just some 3 min video on youtube.

[davidefc]

ive breed quite a few cichlids but no thorichthys sp.....but i do have a pair of tho.meeki and tho.sacnab they just havent breed YET:)
i also i have 3 tho.ellioti did have 5 but 2 got killed due to aggression from each other.....so i would say they arnt the easyest due to aggression. all mine are split up-but tommorrow iam getting another 2-3 to try and get a pair also aload of swordtails for dithers.
so just watch the aggression and it should be easy from that.
what size are they too?
good luck with them

[Glacier]

Thanks, they were about 2" at the shop, but this was about a month ago (had coursework to do, so spent much of my time on that).
However I was too late, they have all been sold.

Though all is not bad, my parents recently agreed to let me have another tank (absolute deal of century for me, I know others have done better but I havnt seen a bargin like this before - 90USG, huge trickle filter, lights, heater, oak cabinet, hood etc. complete set up for £70 (140USD). So now I will be breeding something in that tank (I'm thinking texas atm). Its much bigger and opens up a whole new range of fish, so I'm quite happy.

[davidefc]

nice deal, sorry for the late reply-didnt see the thread and i had CW too. i put my festae in my big tank now so i had a spare tank...i put my sajica pairs, extra male and female and salvini with my tho.sacnab pair. there all pairing off and flaring to each other.
something weird happened while i was catching the salvini i found another tho.ellioti in the tank? must of been hiding or stuck lol

as for the 90 gallon texas's would be cool, i would go for the blue/green texas's