Please help with Jack Dempsey breeding question. I have wigglers
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Well that would be so awesome!! I have been working on this project for well over a year now and to watch the first batch of grand kids (lol) die like that was so painful!!!!
It has been about 3 months now and these guys have never tried to spawn again, any ideas from anyone of what I could try to get them to spawn again?? I have done all the normal things like big water changes, moved things around in the tank, changed the lighting, ect...
GreetingsUOTE="INTHECOWBOYSWETRUST, post: 6973814, member: 114862"]Really that often? I thought it would be 6 months or so before they try again... Thanks for the info..[/QUOTE]
Greetings, I have had luck siphoning water from the parents tank along with the fry into a bare bottom 10 gal. tank. Grow them out for a month or so, until you can tell the difference in the blues and the regulars then separate them as soon as possible. The regular looking fry will out compete the blues for food and they will eventually even eat them. Tedious work but worth it when you have a tank full of blues. I also would recommend a uv sterilizer until they get about 3 inches or so, very susceptible to parasites until that age. Happy fish rearing!
Greetings, I have had luck siphoning water from the parents tank along with the fry into a bare bottom 10 gal. tank. Grow them out for a month or so, until you can tell the difference in the blues and the regulars then separate them as soon as possible. The regular looking fry will out compete the blues for food and they will eventually even eat them. Tedious work but worth it when you have a tank full of blues. I also would recommend a uv sterilizer until they get about 3 inches or so, very susceptible to parasites until that age. Happy fish rearing!
Greetings, I have had luck siphoning water from the parents tank along with the fry into a bare bottom 10 gal. tank. Grow them out for a month or so, until you can tell the difference in the blues and the regulars then separate them as soon as possible. The regular looking fry will out compete the blues for food and they will eventually even eat them. Tedious work but worth it when you have a tank full of blues. I also would recommend a uv sterilizer until they get about 3 inches or so, very susceptible to parasites until that age. Happy fish rearing![/QUOTE]
Try adding a smaller less dominant male, I have had this work in the past. Just keep an eye on them, they will either start the breeding ritual or kill the other fish so watch closely. Some chasing of the smaller male is to be expacted.
I haven't bred jack dempseys but have bred a ton of other cichlids and once you get the hang of it you cant stop them from breeding. The main ingredient is to feed them HIGH quality food and keep pristine water conditions. Make sure that you are doing large water changes at a minimum of weekly. The cichlids that I have bred (convicts all the way up to peacock bass) I feed twice a day. I feed them a high quality pellet, mostly Hikari products, for one feeding and the other will be a varied diet of mixed frozen foods, like pieces of shrimp, tilapia, any other sort of quality protein you can find. I also mix in lots of live night crawlers when I can get them. After a couple weeks of this, you should see your pair start to show some courtship behaviors again. When I see that I then start to do 25% water changes daily for 3-4 days and then on the 5th day I will do a 40% change and when I add the new water I will make it a couple degrees cooler than the normal change and almost always will the pair spawn within 24 hours. Once that happens let nature take its course and once they hatch I have had the best luck removing the babies to their own tank and feed the heck out of them to grow them quick.
Best of luck!
Best of luck!
A couple uf pics of a few of my ebjd and bgjd. 2nd pic is breeding pair. 3rd pic is a couple of denison barbs/rose line shark. Good tankmates!
When mine started breeding, the first batch of fry would get wedged in between the pebbles and die. Learned my lesson and minimized the amount of substrate and just let them do their thing. They were very protective, but I ended getting a divider and keeping the mother in with the babies.
