OKAY another dumb question how do you tell sexes thinking of getting pair tomarow like to know diff
how many yellow labs in a 90?
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okay we talked it over at work... use your 90 as a show tank, and use a small 29ish tank for breeding... One male 3-4 females... oh to tell on fisk flip over and look near anal fin. push it aside... If small you may not see anything on a male, but should be two small holes in a line down the body. A female will have one big and one small noticable difference in size. or if small only one hole... again show tank 90 and breed in smaller... thats what I do... and it works pretty good.
again you keep the change...
again you keep the change...
mike dunagan;583456; said:
Only after she has laid eggs. If she hasn't yet, the holes will be the same size, just like a male.
we would like to answer some of your concerns;in a 90 gallon you can house 20 > labs depending on your flitration and frequency of water changes. It has been my experience that if you want a breeders tank do not add rocks or you will be taking them out of the tank everytime you try to remove a female that is holding, which will be quite often. The three rock piles for the three males forget that because the alpha will control all of the piles and chase the subdoms away. Labs are not really territorial so If rocks are used the purpose should be to provide hiding spots for the subdom and females not ready to breed as some alphas can be quite mean. So you would really need more than three piles of that is your purpose
Labs are hard to sex the only sure way is to see them holding or by venting and of course the alpha by the coloration. Depending on the level of agression the alpha displays he will not permit the subdoms to breed as a result it can be senseless to keep more than one male in the tank if your intent is to incrrease the number of females holding. As someone suggested you would do better having smaller tanks housing one male and 3-4 females.
Labs can be very shy fish that hide everytime someone approaches the tank, especially if the alpha is skittish they will follow suite and hide. This behavior does not occur in bare tanks only tanks with a lot of rocks. If they are skittish as juveniles it can take almost a year for the fish to stop hiding. If you are experiencing this problem with a rocked tank add a group(5-8) of acei and for reasons unknown to me the labs will come out with the acei (normaly acei are not shy fish and tend to school) This has worked for me more than one time.
Labs are hard to sex the only sure way is to see them holding or by venting and of course the alpha by the coloration. Depending on the level of agression the alpha displays he will not permit the subdoms to breed as a result it can be senseless to keep more than one male in the tank if your intent is to incrrease the number of females holding. As someone suggested you would do better having smaller tanks housing one male and 3-4 females.
Labs can be very shy fish that hide everytime someone approaches the tank, especially if the alpha is skittish they will follow suite and hide. This behavior does not occur in bare tanks only tanks with a lot of rocks. If they are skittish as juveniles it can take almost a year for the fish to stop hiding. If you are experiencing this problem with a rocked tank add a group(5-8) of acei and for reasons unknown to me the labs will come out with the acei (normaly acei are not shy fish and tend to school) This has worked for me more than one time.
I started out with the idea of breeding my labs and after a couple of tank changes I ended up putting them in my 220gallon. about 30-40 labs a handful of male peacocks and a frontosa also several syn cats to make a long story short they breed all the time I just don't mess them due to the pain in the butt of getting any fish in particular out due to all the rockwork, everything has to come out to get a certain fish, oh well it's still a awesome display tank!!! I got about 2 or 3 alpha males in the tank now with other males always tryin to take over Its definitely fun to watch.
