i know these questions must be getting old....

[Connor0729]

in an 8x3 tank (360 gallons), could i breed festaes and keep an aro and some other tough cichlids?

i heard that festaes normally will just take 3-4 feet for themselves, and as long as the other fish stay out of that 3 feet, then they are fine.

i would remove the fry as soon as they were free swimming, and if the festaes got out of hand aggression wise, i would sell the male.

thanks for reading and responding to my questions about this future tank guys, and i'm hoping this is the last one

 

[Bllib]

You should be ok but, watch em. festaes can get just down right nasty. I am still waiting for my pair. Can't wait!!

 

[Connor0729]

thanks for the quick response. i really love these fish, but they really show their best colour when the are breeding, of course.

 

[davidefc]

I have no experiance with a breeding pair but my F0 females fine, she breaks up most fighting when there is some.
if it doesnt work a shoal of 4-5 female festae would look SICK, good luck.
another point to think of is the aro uses mainly the top of the tank so it may be a problem when the festae breed and a big predator is above them.
GL

 

[Connor0729]

thanks a lot. about the aro, do you mean that the festaes would be worried about it, and attack it?

i never thought about a group of females, that would be awesome.

 

[Mystix212]

So you have a 360 gallon tank? I never knew about it.

And you COULD breed festae's in a 8x3, but it depends what other tankmates you have and the overall agressiveness of the pair.

 

[Connor0729]

lol i wish. it is still a work in progress.

 

[davidefc]

thanks a lot. about the aro, do you mean that the festaes would be worried about it, and attack it?

i never thought about a group of females, that would be awesome.

Yeah because it would swim over them, they will attact it but the problem is when the aro doesnt learn and keep going back.

 

[Connor0729]

i see....

do you think the aro would ever learn?

 

[Hawkfish3.0]

In theory, yes, it could work. The tank would be big enough. The problem here is, you can't sit the other fish down for a heart to heart and explain to them why they can't go into the 3 to 4 feet of tank space occupied by the Festae pair. It would be ideal, if you wish to breed your pair, to get them their own tank. It wouldn't have to be nearly as big and you wouldn't run the risk of the Festaes killing your other fish. IMO