Anyone have any ideas how to get Jaguar Cichlids to stop having babies, and not taking one away, I have even tried to add a 9" cat to mabey eat the eggs/fry and algea. The Jags tore him a new one, no more cat. We have now had somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 babes now and the pet stores are not taking them any more.
Jag babies go away
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I'm a little afraid to do that might draw back a stump, these guys are freaking viscious. If you put hand on top of tank will jump to try to attack, but I can net them then do that. I feel bad killin the eggs though mabey just have to learn to deal with. I heard that adding salt with this fish deters breeding, not sure that it is true though.
id say its a difficult one as there built to breed,, get a cork and bung up there breeding tubes
here phone up a vet and see if you can get them spayed
no seriously either do as someone said and use fry as feeders or just remove the eggs, dont feel fear for the fish just go for it and get a net to keep parents away from you
here phone up a vet and see if you can get them spayed
no seriously either do as someone said and use fry as feeders or just remove the eggs, dont feel fear for the fish just go for it and get a net to keep parents away from you
You need same sex Jags or they're going to do what nature intended.
I recently sold my female and now have 2 males. I never ended up with grown fry because they're in a community tank but my other fish had shredded fins. My Lenticulata tore thru the most fry and would even stay in place chomping on eggs while taking a beating from 2 Jags at once, eating big mouthfuls of eggs.
I recently sold my female and now have 2 males. I never ended up with grown fry because they're in a community tank but my other fish had shredded fins. My Lenticulata tore thru the most fry and would even stay in place chomping on eggs while taking a beating from 2 Jags at once, eating big mouthfuls of eggs.