Tragedy in the House of Jag

[balton777]

A couple of weeks ago I got of pair of beautiful wild caught Jags from Jeff Rapps to try and breed. I came home a couple of days ago and found the male belly up. Well I decided to take a chance and put my big male Jag back in his old tank with the much smaller female. I built her a safehaven out of driftwood that he can't get into. Sometimes she can come out and swim but a lot of the time, he attacks her. She's about 7.5-8" and he's about a foot. What do yall think? Could they pair up?

 

[cichniss]

Wow that male was a beatiful fish im srry to hear about your loss. I doubt that you could pair up the wc female with your male but hey who knows. Btw your male is awesome.

 

[cichniss]

Well now that i take a closer look at your pics it seems to me your male is tolerating the female??? If so they may have a higher possibility of pairng up.

 

[balton777]

Well now that i take a closer look at your pics it seems to me your male is tolerating the female??? If so they may have a higher possibility of pairng up.

Only occasionally will he tolerate her. She spends a lot of time hiding out in her log cabin. Sometimes the male manages to twist and squeeze his way into the log pile and he'll sit in there for a couple of hours and she'll swim all around. I'm usally not a breeder, just a community fish keeper. It's too stressful ....thinkin' I'ma go back to easy non-breeding fish keeping. lol

 

[balton777]

Btw your male is awesome.

Thanks, the pics don't show his 'purple sheen' though, it's pretty cool. He's definitely my favorite fish.

Here's the dead male. He's all beat up and bloody.

 

[johnptc]

its not the size but the individual fish that make or break a pair ime

 

[sirasoni]

oh man...sorry about your loss. what killed him? the female?

 

[balton777]

oh man...sorry about your loss. what killed him? the female?

That's the only possible explanation I can think of.

Well wish me luck with the new venture.

 

[big train]

I am interested in the outcome of your attempt to spawn a wild caght and a captive raised time will tell best of luck.

 

[benzjamin13]

Aren't Jags one of the easy-to-breed fish? It might happen.