Archocentrus centrarchus breeding pair (pics, video)

[jgentry]

well I checked on them this morning. The female doesn't look like she's gonna pop, the egg opening is still visible, she's still in breeding color. The male never really got into breeding color and they appear to still be courting. They're not guarding anything. You think she laid and they ate em?

I'm having the same issue. My pair came from Rapps. Female stays in breeding dress and the male does not. My female has laid twice in the last 2 weeks and ate the eggs a couple hours after she laid them. I'm not sure the male is fertilizing them.

 

[dogofwar]

they've been primarily eating nls Thera a

Also kensfish flakes w spirulina

Occasional brine and bloodworms - frozen

 

[Diogenes]

cool thanks

 

[darth pike]

Beautiful pair, the LFS has some of the Rapps ones as well. Wish I had the cash, they are so blue it's insane.

 

[dogofwar]

The parents of these are wild from rapps and would breed every time I removed fry from them until I divided them

This pair bred about two weeks ago and was defending their babies from another pair - also defending fry - and a pair of nanoluteus..

When they settle in they'll breed successfully..

Matt

I'm having the same issue. My pair came from Rapps. Female stays in breeding dress and the male does not. My female has laid twice in the last 2 weeks and ate the eggs a couple hours after she laid them. I'm not sure the male is fertilizing them.

 

[cichlidfish]

Nice pair, you don't see these fish much. I like the mollies too.

 

[Diogenes]

I'm having the same issue. My pair came from Rapps. Female stays in breeding dress and the male does not. My female has laid twice in the last 2 weeks and ate the eggs a couple hours after she laid them. I'm not sure the male is fertilizing them.

It may be normal. Check this article I found:

http://www.cichlidae.com/tank.php?id=211

The pre-spawning activities consist of the color change of the female, and plenty of quivering and flaring by both partners. As the females cleans the spawning substrate, the male digs pits around all around his territory...At breeding time, the female undergo a striking color change, turning almost completely jet black, on a dark gray background. The color pattern of the male changes also, but only when the fry achieve the free-swimming stage. The male adopts a similar dark pattern.

that's exactly what mine are doing

 

[dogofwar]

Yes - the female turns black before the male

They'll both stay in spawning color as long as there babies with them

 

[Diogenes]

I fed them frozen bloodworms this morning and the male put on a nice display of fins and took on so many iridescent shades of green that he looked like a green pantone color chart. Stunning. The female immediately darkened up and has stayed that way. Shes normally the most beautiful shade of dark blue I've ever seen on a fish.

One of the platy's gave birth today. They lasted long enough for me to notice the fliers freeding frenzy, and one small blue fry meet his end in the jaws of the male. Another ones about to pop. I think the centrarchus are loving their new digs so far...

Last night the male put on the same display and then proceeded to smack his lady around. She spent a good portion of the night looking navy blue and sitting motionless behind the filter tube. The male patrolled the tank looking for her, and furiously starting digging post holes all over the tank. When he would find her he would nip at her some more. A few hours later they were swimming happily together. Is this normal?

 

[luckydemonz3]

get convicts y you are at it so can use all the fry for feeders lol