I know they cannot hybridize, I added the hypsophrys nicaraguensesand my male GT immediatly started following it around and wagging its anal fin in the Macaw cichlids face! I dont mind this going on as long as it doesnts stress the new fish too much. my question is, will the GT constantly try mate with this fish and stress it out or will it get the idea that nothings gonna happen and leave it alone?
GT attemting to mate with nicaraguensis!
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Sounds like it's showing off it's size to the Parrot, not courting to me.
If it's long, slow, powerful thrusts of the caudal fin it's a sign of dominance. Could lead to mating I guess.
If it's long, slow, powerful thrusts of the caudal fin it's a sign of dominance. Could lead to mating I guess.
I've seen his dominance display many times. This is fast "spasming" with extendad fins, like you would see in mating African cichlids.
Hmmmm I have three Nics in a seperate tank. Figured they would get owned by the GT. I'm interested in seeing how this turns out for you. Keep us posted.
On very rare occasion they will mate and produce fry. I had a male GT and female Sal pair off and spawned multiple times, and once producing . Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on which side of the hybrid fence your on) the fry only lived about 24 hours or so and were horribly deformed. As long as those two were in the same tank though they kept on spawning but I never got anymore fry. the bigger problem will be the GT and Nic defending their spawning site. Things could get ugly.
Improbable yes , impossible no. In my case and the few others I've heard of the fry were very short lived and horribly deformed. Our aquariums are much different than the natural world and things happen in them that wouldn't occur anywhere else. The urge to reproduce is perhaps one of the strongest of all instincts and in the aquaria setting, our fish take what they can get . Now I will say that it's highly unlikely that the OP will have any fry from this , mine only produced fry once out of multiple spawning attempts. If there are any fry they wont live long. CA and SA cichlids , especially acaras and CAs are so far removed from each other geneticly that the likelyhood of any remotely successfull spawn is slim and those same genetic dispairities seem to cause the mentioned fatal defects in any possible fry.Trimax;3039363; said: