I am starting a 112 gallon tank, and I want to keep the Red Terror, male and female. Is this possible?
Red Terrors
- Thread starter Hank82
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What are your ultimate goals. Keep them for life, or maybe just a couple years or shorter.
If lifelong I would suggest an 8x2x2 min. The males can push past 16inchs
If not long term your tank should work. Just make sure you give the female areas she can get into and not the Male. RT's are especially hard on each other during breeding. Have a divider ready as well.
If lifelong I would suggest an 8x2x2 min. The males can push past 16inchs
If not long term your tank should work. Just make sure you give the female areas she can get into and not the Male. RT's are especially hard on each other during breeding. Have a divider ready as well.
In that case you could use the tank you have to get you a couple years into their life possibly. While they are growing you can be putting together their final home.
Breeding them you will also need to get a few grow out tanks for fry as well. I suggest a 10/20 gallon for right after you take them from the parents. Then one or two 40b/75 gallon tanks for growing out in.
My Sagittae where spawning every 4 weeks. By time fry would be sellable size 1.5 inches I would need probably 4 grow out tanks.
You can slow down breeding by separating them via a tank separator or actually moving one into another tank.
Now breeding will slow down their growth rate as well. This could give you more time to get their final tank to accommodate their adult size.
As mentioned earlier you will want places she can get into that he can't. My Sagittae male killed off two females in 6 months. Both times was over night when all was great the night before.
I'm debating whether to get juvenile festae for my community tank 125gallon growout and eventually moving them all to 350gallon tank. Is it possible to keep them with other american cichlids?
Not from experience, but from other members they really don't play well with others, especially if breeding. It may work in the 350, maybe not really depends on the individual itself. You could get some calm ones, or be like my Saggitae and bite the hand that feeds it.
In a 112 gal you will probably need a divider once they hit maturity, one with a small enough space so "if"the female is smaller, she can escape the attentions of a rutting male.
Sort of like the divider I used below. The male and female even though disparate in size, were the same age.
The larger the tank, the larger the chance of success.
Agree with Jexnell, a pair or trio in a 350 gallon is much more reasonable, when mature, and full grown.
Sort of like the divider I used below. The male and female even though disparate in size, were the same age.
The larger the tank, the larger the chance of success.
Agree with Jexnell, a pair or trio in a 350 gallon is much more reasonable, when mature, and full grown.