Jaguar fry dying

[Magnus_Bane]

With the experience with my pair of jags, the frys never live pass a few weeks. My male is about 10 inches and female about 8.5-9. They've been spawning since 4 inches. For some reason the pair keeps attacking their reflection off the tank and im assuming they think its a threat so after a few weeks the frys dissapper. Then they repeat with spawning again a week after of when i do a water change. If i want to keep the frys i usually have to net them out and raise them seperately if i want to keep them.
With frys dying randomly, some fry will die off slowly if not feed with live hatched shrimp. I only used hikari first bites and some fry won't take it so they starve til the die. But with the right water parameters and newly hatch brine shrimp most fry will survive.

One thing ya could do to stop them attacking their own reflection is just to tape some black paper to 3 side of the tank.

 

[maxstillen]

One thing ya could do to stop them attacking their own reflection is just to tape some black paper to 3 side of the tank.

I would but I don't really care much about their frys. I'm just trying to grow the pair out. I grew some out seperately and sold the frys in the past. They are Honduran jags I bought from cota almost a year ago. I just love the blues in the males fins.

 

[Magnus_Bane]

I would but I don't really care much about their frys. I'm just trying to grow the pair out. I grew some out seperately and sold the frys in the past. They are Honduran jags I bought from cota almost a year ago. I just love the blues in the males fins.

They do look nice once fully matured. Used to have a female one myself but it sadly jumped out of the tank and the cat got to her first.

 

[Nove Sedici]

Lol if ya wanted something ya could call a true "rabbit cichlid" I would go with convicts. They will breed in almost any condition and they tend to be extremely good parents with a very low mortality rate. Had mine spawn and had over 100 fry, 80 or so made it to adulthood. Least to say I had allot of fish food afterwards.

Lol, i had convicts indeed. Putting a male and female together will end up with fry.
But once Jaguars are paired up they are just as bad

 

[Nove Sedici]

With the experience with my pair of jags, the frys never live pass a few weeks. My male is about 10 inches and female about 8.5-9. They've been spawning since 4 inches. For some reason the pair keeps attacking their reflection off the tank and im assuming they think its a threat so after a few weeks the frys dissapper. Then they repeat with spawning again a week after of when i do a water change. If i want to keep the frys i usually have to net them out and raise them seperately if i want to keep them.
With frys dying randomly, some fry will die off slowly if not feed with live hatched shrimp. I only used hikari first bites and some fry won't take it so they starve til the die. But with the right water parameters and newly hatch brine shrimp most fry will survive.

I had a similar problem in the beginning. But now they understand that they are supposed to raise the fry. Even when the next batch of eggs are wigglers it’s no problem. Once the new nest starts freeswimming they will eat the bigger ones of the best before. But by that time I’ve netted them out

 

[bathawk]

could it be that some batches of fry could be stronger than others with my ebas they spawn like crazy the first 2 batches of fry I took from the parents have survived the third batch all died had them in seperate tanks with seeded filters same water same temp and fed with first bites micro worms ect.

 

[Nove Sedici]

could it be that some batches of fry could be stronger than others with my ebas they spawn like crazy the first 2 batches of fry I took from the parents have survived the third batch all died had them in seperate tanks with seeded filters same water same temp and fed with first bites micro worms ect.

Might be. I see big differences of growth between batches. The batch from 9-10 weeks ago reached 0,8-1,5 cm the first month after they started free swimming. The batch from 5 weeks ago is still in the breeding tank now and is only half that size after a month. I decided not to take them out, to see what happens if the most recent nest starts free swimming. Should happen in 2-4 days from now.

I feed them grinded hikari pellets btw, works excellent and i don’t have to get special food for the babies