Breeding Jaguar Cichlids

[chris_zx2]

to many factors to really estimate, but if everything is good and you leave them with the parents you could be looking at up to 80% max.

The fungus only applies to the eggs and not the "wigglers" (tadpoles). You don't have to worry about fungus anymore.

And in the future I wouldn't bother adding anything to the water with the eggs, the fanning action of the mother as well as her picking off the moldy eggs will do the job for you. Adding methylene blue or other chemicals is mainly when you seperate the eggs into another tank. Methylene blue will actually kill most if not all your beneficial bacteria, so never a good thing to add to your main tank.

 

[Nick102881]

Gotcha... Thanks guys. I didn't actually dose the tank with anything. I was doing some reading on various sites and discovered that some people do. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with all these jags if a large portion of them survive. But at the moment, this kind of fun so I'm not overly concerned. I've read that if I leave them in the tank the parents will eventually eat them when its time to spawn again. So we'll see...


Thanks again,
ND

 

[CClump]

that or eventually the fry will start to eat the parents slime coat.

 

[chris_zx2]

No matter what you'll have a couple survive if they have somewhere to hide. At my lfs they sell a mini aquarium that sits inside your aquarium and is made of mesh.
Here it is:
http://www.bigalsonline.ca/Fish_Accessories_Traps_Breeder-Net_8227841_102.html?tc=default

 

[Crotalus Scutulatus]

No matter what you'll have a couple survive if they have somewhere to hide. At my lfs they sell a mini aquarium that sits inside your aquarium and is made of mesh.
Here it is:
http://www.bigalsonline.ca/Fish_Accessories_Traps_Breeder-Net_8227841_102.html?tc=default

I use a similar device and slip it over my overflow box to keep babies from getting filtered into my wet/dry. I should put some pics in my gallery instead of painting a picture. Nothing else is in that tank but a breeding pair of Jags 10+" each. My babies are 1/2 inch.

 

[chris_zx2]

PICS PICS PICS

 

[liljag]

I just bought a female saturday today is Tuesday and they laid their eggs today (tuesday) all I did was turn up the heat about 85maybe cooler

 

[chris_zx2]

What ended up happening to the fry?

 

[zacharyb102]

hey if u have any fry plz email me soon as possible i would be more than intrested in them

 

[white15]

Live food as suggested above sometimes can do the trick. Dither fish or target fish might be useful as well if you can find some you don't care about.