I just moved my almost 3" GT to my 30g with my bichir, pleco, and a jewel cichlid and when I moved him the jewel immediately turned angry red and started protecting the GT very violently, the Jewel is about 2 times bigger than the GT and the GT is still a fry, Are they going to mate or is this just territorial?
Green Terror and Jewel Cichlid Mating?
- Thread starter PayaraMan
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my gt did that with a firemouth than after a while went crazy on it. doubt its a mating thing since they are so different. best bet is to keep an eye on your gt because a jewel that size could probably skin em alive
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dent20;4027360; said:
ALMOST three inches, the jewel has stopped changing colors too which is good.
mr72country;4026986; said:
a jewel and a con are very different but my 2 started to mate. the female con was about 1.5" and the jewel about 2.5" so it does happen.
if they are mating then that jewel will terrorise the tank and if its a phase then your GT is marked.
i notice your 10g is empty, i recommend moving the jewel to its own cell for the time being until you either get fish to cope with its level of crazyness or rehome.
NOTE: when i say get fish, i mean rehoming others so your jewel can have tankmates that play on its level and not cramming more fish in.
dent20;4029085; said:
their was the liplocking, the rubbing, digging under a bit of wood and egg laying. they were also protective of the cave. i dont know if fry could ever have resulted or even if the jewel was male, it could have been 2 females going through the motions in an all female tank.
dent20;4029085; said:
they're both egg layers so it's possible....although not probable. their ways of communicating with each other are going to be very different and what they look for in an ideal mate is going to be vastly different from what they're able to find if they're the only 2 in the tank. however if you have a female determined to lay eggs (some females lay eggs with no other fish in the tank) and a male comes along, sees the eggs and decides to fertilize them then who knows.
the next question would be would the eggs even hatch and until it actually happens we can't really answer that.
I would think they could theoretically mate and spawn, heck 2 females can "mate" and produce spawns, albeit infertile of course. I would guess the spawning would be infertile, though if say a trimac and snook can produce viable fry anything is possible.