gday everyone i just picked up a second rtc and to my joy it is within 3 cm of my first they are both aprox 45 cm and possibly a pair. 1 has much darker colouring and is more slender with rich red fins i have read this means male? and the new one is a grey colour with faded red finnage but is quite chunky in the upper body i have read this means female they are not fighting. they continuously rub each other and are really content they slept on each other last night!!! does anyone have further info on sexing and breeding the internet is useless (unless im looking wrong).
BREEDING RTC
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I don't believe it's ever happened in captivity the old-fashioned way, or, at least, I've never read about it. They'd have to be a lot older for that to happen, in any case.
yeah i know they will have to grow alot more but if it has been done in farms, ponds, dams i wanna know. i cant even find anything for in the wild
I reckon noone is getting them to breed is because the tank is too small. A 1k tank seems large but to a 5ft RTC it might seem like a 150 or something. Just throwing out random usless opinionated statements though. lol
packer43064;3625459; said:
im pretty sure you hit it spot on. With the exeption of large fish farms, i dont think many, if any of our TRUE monsters are actually bred in home tanks/ponds.
if you really wanted to start breeding them (not sure why you would anyway) you would need a pond thats most likely tens of thousands of gallons.
Anywhere outside their native environment uses hormone injections to condition them for breeding, and I'd imagine they'd have to be adult size.
you have the weather in Oz dig a 10000gal+ pond throw in a couple of tree trunks for hiding places and start feeding in your enemies.
If you were successful in breeding them what would you do with the babies. Not many folks, nobody I know of personally, can properly house an adult.
What are you planning on breeding yours in?
This is a situation in which, IF you were successful, then you have caused yourself another problem, disposal of the fry.
What are you planning on breeding yours in?
This is a situation in which, IF you were successful, then you have caused yourself another problem, disposal of the fry.