here is a video from today. the two fish that i believe are males are getting some real nice color. [YT]cIaDH80lrio[/YT]
Orange Head Tapajos growth thread
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Does anyone know when these fish start breeding. im 99% sure i have two females and two males so im geussing a pair will form.
I bought a group of 10 1.5" orange heads in October 2011. Two (of the five I ended up keeping) paired off and laid eggs in November 2012 at about 3.5" in length. They ate the eggs within hours. Since that time they've probably spawned again (I've seen their tubes down), but the eggs have not lasted. I hear that is pretty normal for orange heads the first few times they breed. Hopefully they'll figure it out, but then again, they're in a community SA tank that is not really set up for a pair of breeders.
Here are some pics. The first shows the male. In the second one you can see the female with a small clutch of yellowish eggs just to the left of the darker rock. Good luck!
wow! those are beautiful. i think mine are slowy approaching 3.5 inches. maybe ill get some eggs soon
I got a group from Rapps around christmas 2011, and had a first spawn only 3 months later. I was shocked, they were so young. but was told that his line of F1's are early spawners.
yea i got my F1s from rapps aswell. i feel like the females are still a little small but i think it wont be too long till they start breeding
Try a water change and bumping the temperature up a few degrees. Sometimes that stimulates breeding.
what's your temp at & wc schedule? you should've had spawns by now, they look plenty mature & healthy. wonder if you ended up with an all male group. I finally accepted that there's only 1 female in my group. she started out spawning with one male & after many, many eaten attempts she kicked him out hard & switched to another male. the original male, I call "the Stalker Ex" because he kept fighting to get back in on everything. but when she booted him, it was eternally Over.
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once she started spawning, she kept on like clockwork. sometimes only 2 weeks apart. the very longest pause, maybe a month.
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once she started spawning, she kept on like clockwork. sometimes only 2 weeks apart. the very longest pause, maybe a month.
