180 gallon with red devils/midas just had babies and there is prob hundreds to a thousand lil fish that I found today. Real cool. I also have flowerhorns in that tank and my question is for flowerhorn's experts, I hear from many people that when their flower horn breeds the flowerhorns would eat the eggs, But I have been also hearing that flowerhorns just will all eat their eggs if not their babies???? Is that true?
Midas and Flowerhorns Breeding ?
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Smok3o3;4356290; said:
Flowerhorns are Central/South American cichlid hybrids....They lay their eggs on a clean flat spot, sometimes on the side of a rock....The pair will "fan" and protect the egg site untill hatching, about three days.......When the eggs hatch, the fry are known as "wigglers," they lay on the ground untill the egg solk is soaked up.......WIthin 3-4 days after that, the fry begin to swim, this is the time to either siphon the fry out or leave it to parents to raise......Normally, people will siphon the fry out right after hatching and place the spawn in a 55g-100g "growout" tank(I do it, you do it).......Feed the fry BBS(baby brine shrimp).........
Yes. Always depends on parents or individual..
But yes FHs are a bit different from pure breeds and the chances of the the pair breaking up suddenly after breeding and father eating the babies are higher than the pure breeds..
My room mate has a pair that bred 3 times and 3 times had lots of wigglers but they broke up and male kicked female's ass all 3 times..
4 time he took parents out now he he's raising wigglers
It is for sure a higher chance FHs destroy the breeding compared to pure breeds.
But yes FHs are a bit different from pure breeds and the chances of the the pair breaking up suddenly after breeding and father eating the babies are higher than the pure breeds..
My room mate has a pair that bred 3 times and 3 times had lots of wigglers but they broke up and male kicked female's ass all 3 times..
4 time he took parents out now he he's raising wigglers
It is for sure a higher chance FHs destroy the breeding compared to pure breeds.