Unintentional X breeding.

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Diamondhitch

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I have several species of south american and central american cichlids in an 80 gallon tank. Right now they are immature but I recently found out that some of these fish may be capable of X breeding. Which of the following will X breed on me?
Jaguar Cichlid
Jack Dempsey
Green Terror
Convict
Flower horn
Amphilophus Lyonsi
I guess I am just curious if I may be in for any unwanted breeding activity.
Thanks.
 
With those fish in an 80gal tank, cross-breeding would be my least worry. You will have some casualties when they begin to mature.....:(

Burt
 
I realize that this tank is WAY too small for all these fish as mature specimens. I purchased them all as young fish so that as they mature I will see which ones get along together the best and then I can juggle them around before the scales start flying!

I am currently looking for a used 180 gallon tank to move a few fish to and to keep a Peacock bass in as well. What I would realy like to know is which ones to split up to reduce any chance of X breeding.

The way it is looking now the Jack Dempsey, Lyonsi, and convict which are already mature specimens get along just fine and hopefuly the Green terror will go good with them as well and the others would be moved to the other tank unless I identify some combinations that may want to be more than just 'freinds' if you know what I mean.
 
Sounds like a lot of fish in that tank. Good luck on finding a good deal on a bigger tank. I am looking for a big tank atm too.
 
Nandopis Managuense -jaguar cichlid
Nandopis octofasciatum -jack dempsey
Aequidens rivulatus -green terror
Cryptoheros Nigrofasciatus -convict
Flower Horn Fish are hybrids between various species from the group of fish that was previously known as Cichlasoma
Amphilophus Lyonsi - some sort of Central America cichlid
googled the internet to find all that up there.

ummmmmmmmm "Hybrids between different species within the same genus are sometimes known as interspecific hybrids or crosses." thank wilkipedia.

if interspecific breeding was to actually go down in ur tank, it would come from ur jaguar and ur dempsey. those are the only 2 fish from the same genus and every other fish u have is from a different one. but i seriously doubt THAT would even happen because breeding fish of the same species is hard enough ;)
 
If you look around you will probably find crossbreeds of every combo in your tank
I have had
jag x con
demp x con

Crossbreeding is no big deal
the aggression of parents is a problem even in a 180g

if your worried that your crossbred fish are going to destroy
the fish trade you should only keep one species and single specimen

Most if not all of your crossbred fry will be eaten by their much larger tank mates
 
Well thanks for your input, it looks like if its going to happen its going to happen. I am not worryied about "destroying the fish trade" as you so dramaticaly put it! Otherwise I would not own a flower horn.
As you have probably figured out already I am relatively new to this and so maybe some of my info is not correct. I had heard from several sources that during spawning a fish that will tolerate his tankmates may snap and decide to kill them all. This is why I chose not to get more than 1 of each species, apparently that may not be as big of a deterrent as I had thought.
 
your jag and flowerhorn will probably breed. i have a female jag and male blue dragon flowerhorn and i've had two batchs of fry in the last 3 months.
 
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