a convict and JB con Q

[X24]

It doesn't really matter, JD's are much harder to pair up then convicts. Best plan is to get a 55, buy 5 juvi JD's and find the eventual pair that comes up, then take the rest back.

Although the JD's grow rather slow for a cichlid, the time it'll take to maybe get a pair (i'm bad at ID'ing JD's but you may have a m/f but i'm doubting a pair at this point) and to get them breeding, if you provide the correct water and food requirements to breed them you'll get maybe 1 spawn in before they are too large for your 29 and thats assuming everything goes perfectly, and rarely do they ever in the world of fish. Of course with the other fish in there it'll actually probably hamper their chances of breeding very quickly, so if the LFS employee/owner really did tell you to try and breed these for him/her you have to take them back and tell them that it turns out you don't have the necessary equipment to get them to pair up and spawn.

I'd say the minimum tank size for 1 JD is a 38 gallon, and thats only because of its decent dimensions. A 29 just won't cut it.

Please decide what you want to do to make your fish happy. Put their happiness slightly before yours and soon you will be happy.

Formula: Happy Fish (Appropriate tank + Good perims X food - constant change + TLC) = Happy Fishkeeper (CB in this case)

 

[elting44]

First of all, it appears that both are males. So they won't breed.

Second, you have been given great advice on this forum repeatedly and it seems all you do is buy new fish weekly, which is discouraging to the people that are giving you their time and advice.

Third, one jack dempsey should be housed in a 55 gallon. A pair in a 55 is ok, but a 75 would be even better IMO.

Take them back to the LFS, if the owner refuses to take them. Find them a home.

 

[DABoepple]

you guys dont worry there gonna be gone in the next few days anyway so dont get all riled up just go along with it. and ya cb it looks like you have two males there whom will most likley start fighting for dominance with the con

 

[X24]

elting is obviously a bit better at ID'ing JD's then I am, so i'd believe him more then me and assume they are both males.

If you like the look of JD's with their sparkling colors, maybe go for a quite smaller fish that also have that (although they are red) the jewel cichlid would work out perfectly in a 29 in either a pair breeding or either 2 males or 2 females and a convict.

jewel:

 

[pcfriedrich]

just want to now if the pair is male and female

looks like two males. a female JD has alot of blue around the gills/chin area.

 

[twhittle]

Looks like 2 males

 

[voss345]

no bring the Jack dempseys back, you were doing good when you did your cool little community tank but you went back to your old self


bring the Jd's back trust me they need at least a 55 i have a pair in a 75 and they dominate it, bring the regular convict back too
have the lfs owener breed them in their own tanks, we have a ton of tanks in the shop we just breed stuff in

 

[craig_uk]

My oh my.

I normally avoid these threads, for this reason, bit i cant stop myself.

did the owner of the LFS seriously GIVE you a pair of JDs to breed? are you certain you didn't, perhap, buy them? as you have planned several times in the past? despite the advise, nay, warnings of pretty much everyone on these boards?

Maybe seriously consider your future as a fish keeper mate. This is getting beyond a joke, and don't think this is flaming, your just being irresponsible with live animals.

Craggy

 

[James B.]

2 males, take them back before the blood bath starts.
On another note the next time the owner asks you to breed something for her tell her you will is she supplies you with every thing tank, filters, food, the hole nine, as you are not equipped to do so.

 

[johnny_1993]

My oh my.

I normally avoid these threads, for this reason, bit i cant stop myself.

did the owner of the LFS seriously GIVE you a pair of JDs to breed? are you certain you didn't, perhap, buy them? as you have planned several times in the past? despite the advise, nay, warnings of pretty much everyone on these boards?

Maybe seriously consider your future as a fish keeper mate. This is getting beyond a joke, and don't think this is flaming, your just being irresponsible with live animals.

Craggy

EXACTLY,

if someone chucked a aro in a 55 it would be doing as much damage as you are to these fish, you bought the community fishes 3-4 weeks ago WHICH WAS ALREADY OVER STOCKED !!! GOURAMIS CAN GET 6" LONG!!! ,
now you bought some cons, some j'ds what next a ariapiama ??????
*slaps self in face*

NOT flaming this is just past a joke, if he wants people to respectfully answer his threads, how about he has respect for his fish!!!!!!!!!!!

simple as that