question, I have a mating pair of blue acara and they are on their 3 brood. Only was able to save 8 out of the second one and they are about 1/2 long in a smaller tank. This time I decided to take the eggs and have them in a breeder. Now my male and female are wearing each other out and male has some scale damage. It’s been about a hour. Will this behavior stop soon???
Fighting Blue Acara parents
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No seperate asap. She will kill him. I personally had the same issue with a pair but had to nurse the male back from near death. Some female Cichlids will become highly aggressive after the eggs are laid.
Any idea how long to separate? I will have to devide tank because my other tank has 8 swimming fry.
Some of his wounds she made but they seem to be calming down, worried about at night.
After removing eggs, it is very common to have cichlid parents fight, and often kill each other.
Separating a couple weeks should be enough.
I find its often best to leave the mother with eggs and fry, and just remove the male (or separate the male to an opposite end of the tank with egg crate).
To raise fry successfully, as soon as you see parents start to court again, it is best to remove any fry to a separate fry rearing tank.
Sometime more than one tank, separating by grow rate and size. Large brothers and size will often kill smaller ones.
Sometimes I have 3 separate tanks, for 3 sizes of fry.
Separating a couple weeks should be enough.
I find its often best to leave the mother with eggs and fry, and just remove the male (or separate the male to an opposite end of the tank with egg crate).
To raise fry successfully, as soon as you see parents start to court again, it is best to remove any fry to a separate fry rearing tank.
Sometime more than one tank, separating by grow rate and size. Large brothers and size will often kill smaller ones.
Sometimes I have 3 separate tanks, for 3 sizes of fry.
