Hybridizing Journal

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oddball_freak

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I am going to make this thread my Hybridizing Journal. I have been keeping fish for 10 years now. I have had many different species of fish. I started with mostly oddballs, but here as of late my tastes have changed and I have mostly cichlids.

My breeding pool list of fish:
2 Oscars 10"+ 1M 1F
1 Jaguar 9" F
1 Trimaculatus 8" M
1 Green Terror 8" M
1 Red Parrot 5" F
1 Red Devil 3" M
1 Electric Blue Jack Dempsey 5" M
1 F Jack 4" w/ EBJD
2 Jack Dempsey 4" M
2 Texas Cichlids 1M 1F 3'
2 Black Convicts 5"M 4"F Pair

I have other fish too:4 africans 3", 3 severums green and gold 2", angels 4", pike 8", wolf fish 8", black rhom 8", 2 red bellies 6", 3 red hooks 7", tinfoil barb 8", black con 3", firemouth 3", 13 plecos 1 for each tank.

My tanks
125, 55 x2, 40B x3, 30 x3, 29, 20H x2, 20L

I have lost a few fish in the past couple weeks, due to me trying to cross breed and having them kill each other. I had my 7" red terror kill 2 female trimacs 4" and 5"and a 6" F jaguar. traded the terror off for an angel. My trimac M killed one of my female parrots, he bit a hole in her stomach right by her vent. She was in the process of laying eggs. I have found it is better idea to let the female establish herself in the tank first then introduce the male when she is ready to breed.

When I am preparing my fish to breed I feed them a variety of foods 3-5 times daily. I feed Hikari Massivore Delite, Jumbo Min, Krill. I also make my own fish food. I blend together and freeze shrimp(shell on), catfish(locally caught and frozen), I make carrot juice and add the pulp and juice, garlic juice(natural antibiotic and all around good plant, I put it in everything), I also add cyclopeeze and spriulene algae(more color enhancing), and gelatin.

I also do frequent water changes anywhere from 25 to 40%. I also refill my tanks with cold water, it helps stimulate the fish into spawning like a spring rain. I keep my lights on 10-12 hours a day.

I think that is enough for my first post/entry.
 
Yesterday I did 40% water changes on all my tanks and refilled with cold water. I am power feeding the female Jag and parrot. They should both lay eggs within the week or so.

I have the parrot in with the midas. They seem to have paired up. He isn't trying to kill her at least. I have a small male convict in there for the Midas to be able to direct his aggressions towards him instead of the parrot. But he doesn't mess with the convict either.

I am still debating about which male I should try with the Jag this time. It is either going to be Green Terror or Trimaculatus. I have been researching on how to "A.I." fish, by holding the male over the eggs and gently squeezing him, then removing the male again. I am going to try this method.
 
are you using dividers? just wondering cause you said you've lost alot of fish in past weeks, because of trying to breed them.

i don't think GTs and jags can hybridize. i could be wrong, but i've never heard of this working.

if i was you i would experiment with the sevs too.
 
I have used dividers. Left the pair divided in a 55 for a week. The GT would attack the divider for a while then calm down, but once the divider was lifted he was back into kill mode. The GT was "in love" with my other F Jag. He would follow her around and do th cichlid tail shimmy. He would clear off all of the rocks and move the gravel around, but she wasn't producing eggs yet so I put my big Jag with him. In the mean time my RT killed the smaller F jag. I had them divided for 5 days, lifted the divider no problems, next morning she was dead. Same with the trimacs. I think using the "A.I." method will save me some dollars in fish. I am trying to cross some really aggressive fish and so far I am paying for it.

I have seen some youtube videos of JagxGt they are very pretty.

My sevs are too small still. I just got them last month.
 
oddball_freak;1662645; said:
I have used dividers. Left the pair divided in a 55 for a week. The GT would attack the divider for a while then calm down, but once the divider was lifted he was back into kill mode. The GT was "in love" with my other F Jag. He would follow her around and do th cichlid tail shimmy. He would clear off all of the rocks and move the gravel around, but she wasn't producing eggs yet so I put my big Jag with him. In the mean time my RT killed the smaller F jag. I had them divided for 5 days, lifted the divider no problems, next morning she was dead. Same with the trimacs. I think using the "A.I." method will save me some dollars in fish. I am trying to cross some really aggressive fish and so far I am paying for it.

I have seen some youtube videos of JagxGt they are very pretty.

My sevs are too small still. I just got them last month.
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Umm links please as i have never seen them and i did a serch and nothing :irked:
 
I dont think you can incorperate the green terror.I think it is better to let the fish pair up in a community setting then sepperate them
 
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