Female Jaguar laid eggs

[bawb]

My female Jaguar laid eggs in a 110 gallon tank. The only males in the tank are a Flowerhorn and maybe a bloodparrot [males are supposed to be infertile anyways]

Is there any chance of the flowerhorn fertilizing the eggs? He keeps hanging around her while she guards the eggs, and only 3-4 eggs have turned white in the past 48hrs.
So are they fertile?
TIA
Bawb

 

[bawb]

After a little more research, it looks like I may have some Jaghorns hatching soon. Now I just have to search to see how long till they hatch.

 

[heatherbeast]

Lady jags will cross with a LOT of things. You should be seeing the ground under mom writhing in the next 24-48 hours. They do not need food until they are free-swimming in the water column. Good luck with it if you want to try keeping them!

 

[bawb]

I'm going to try to save some and put them in another tank to grow up. Out of the hundreds of eggs, what is the survival rate? I want to keep 10 to 20, so how many should save?
P.S. The male Flowerhorn is already trying to eat the eggs so he is going to have to move.

 

[heatherbeast]

Bad dad! I would go ahead and save them all, and decide on which to keep after they get large enough to look at so you can cull any with spine or swimming problems. The fry will cannibalize each other too, and be preyed on by other fish. I eventually moved the fry out from my jag breeding pair at about a month, and still had 30ish left out of a clutch of 300-500 eggs (I wasn't watching very closely because mom and dad were doing a good enough job, and I didn't want a million of the little guys). You may need to move sooner if dad is trying to eat them, or if he and mom start fighting.

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[heatherbeast]

PS: If mom is guarding the eggs, just leave them (and later the fry) with her, and move the flowerhorn dad out.

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[bawb]

It all went wrong last night. I removed the dad, then another less dominate flowerhorn went after eggs. I removed him also.
But all the stress seemed to cause the Jag mother to start eating eggs. So I removed flowerpot containing eggs to another tank. I do not have high hopes for this batch, but I have learned a lot about who can breed with what. This is also the first time for these fish so they are still learning too.