Sexing Jewel Cichlids (any sub/species/strain)

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Will I am said:
Eggs should be a cream color. If they're white, male didn't do his thang! How long has it been since she's laid?
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24 hours now & she just ate them in the past few hours.

She also killed one of the other sub-adults too....I found it dead in the breeder net tonight, nothing more than torn fins, not even a missing scale.....looked like TOD was merely hours before I found her, no decomposition less than 24 hours since saw it was fine last night at this time.

The other "dominant" one I put in a 2nd breeder net ...the "good" kind has escaped it also - both fish escaped both nets but I could keep a EB Acara in it for a month?

Are some fish just too stupid to find a way out of the breeder nets?

Eggs certainly weren't white, but they weren't cream either.....
 
well, apparently I had a pair all along , 3rd time is a charm. Just checked the tank and it's full of wigglers. Didn't even notice any eggs .....now where to move the 3rd-Wheel to.....
 
Frank Castle said:
well, apparently I had a pair all along , 3rd time is a charm. Just checked the tank and it's full of wigglers. Didn't even notice any eggs .....now where to move the 3rd-Wheel to.....
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I correct myself.....tank is full of free swimmers??? How is that possible....I just saw a clutch of eggs get eaten Tuesday night......wth??
 
IME and IMO, jewels are very easy to sex reliably, even at a young age and size. Male and female have different body shape. Females "roundish" and males, the belly and top are straight forming parallel lines. Plus males usually have a slanted forehead; older males sometimes nuachal hump, though not so common.
But it can be very difficult to sex them from pictures; depends on the angle of the shot. Has to be dead straight on to reveal the true body shape.
 
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had to move last month's babies tonight, came downstairs tonight and saw a new nest and a female in the process of laying while there were still 100+ fry in there, so I moved them cuz I figured the parents would eat their last clutch to make room for the new one. Am I right?
 
First fish I ever bred actually when I was about 12. I found it fairly easy to sex fully grown ones. Males are slender and they have a steper head profile, and they get very red jaws, but then a terracotta color on the rest of their body.
Females seemed to have more jewels, a shorter rounded physique and they were red all over.
I have 3 juvies right now and From what I can see one of them has red around the jaw so probably a male and 2 females. They are all pretty chummy right now but thats just my individual way of telling, its not 100% but I hope it helps.

Got any pictures?
 
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Rafini said:
First fish I ever bred actually when I was about 12. I found it fairly easy to sex fully grown ones. Males are slender and they have a steper head profile, and they get very red jaws, but then a terracotta color on the rest of their body.
Females seemed to have more jewels, a shorter rounded physique and they were red all over.
I have 3 juvies right now and From what I can see one of them has red around the jaw so probably a male and 2 females. They are all pretty chummy right now but thats just my individual way of telling, its not 100% but I hope it helps.

Got any pictures?
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Yea, I can see most of that....never checked for red jaws though....i'll get pix of my whole collection up here one of these days soon. Only got a few sub-adults and some Morays picture-worthy ATM. You can't even SEE the baby HRP-Convicts and Jewels in the fry tank, still only 1/4"
 
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