I just own 2 of 'em, I know pretty much nothing about breeding this particular species, but thnx for page
funny you mention that cuz we were just talking about Jewels and it reminded me of an experiement I did on a lone Jaguar fry in a large deep RUB to see how it would do eating wild insects and microfauna, so I put a few water hyacinth-like plants in the tub and he stayed in there feeding all summer. He tended to stay towards the bottom on the hotter days, so the extra depth must have kept it cooler down below - pretty much turned entirely nocturnal during the hottest months. I'm gonna try a baby pool and some Jewels this yearDepends on what you mean by sellable size. If you mean taking a bunch of 1"- 1.5" fish to a LFS and getting 35cents each in credit (what my LFSs would usually provide) probably not too long.
But if you mean 3" good looking specimens, that could take a good 9 months, and would mean separating out sizes into many different tanks so the fry don't kill each other, or putting them all in a kiddy pool to grow out , with lot of water changes, and lots of food.
I especially like putting fry outside in the summer where they can get plenty of algae, daphnia, and other Iive food to graze on all day, then scoop them out at the end of summer when they.ve put on size.
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nothing else to add lol just wanted to emphasize how WCs increase growth/metabolism/something....whatever it is, it makes them bigger for any species I have bred, and twice a week 50-80% isn't such a bad idea. I had good results from it.
