Breeding jaguar cichlid tips

[Trollison]

I recently got a female for my male jag, and i was wanting some tips on how to get them to spawn. do i need to add floating plants or have the temperature set specifically? Any tips will be nice

 

[Rocksor]

duanes

 

[duanes]

When I had compatible pairs of managuense, I would mix a little cooler rain water with my water changes.
My tap water was hard (250ppm Total Hardness), so by adding slightly cooler rain water, it mimicked a seasonal change that might induce spawning in nature.
And if possible I'd do a fairly significant water change (40% of the tanks total water) every day for a couple weeks or so.

 

[Trollison]

is it safe to do that many water changes that big before the actually spawn or is it when the are free swimming fry in the tank?

 

[tlindsey]

is it safe to do that many water changes that big before the actually spawn or is it when the are free swimming fry in the tank?

You do the cooler wc's to trigger spawning.

 

[Trollison]

what temperature should the water be when i changge it ? and it wouldnt upset the bacteria in the water doing that many and that ammount ?

 

[Rocksor]

Enough to drop around 5 degrees. So measure the temp of your tank water and your cold tap water then do the math