Hello I am interested to see, around what length do Vieja's Generally start to be able to produce fry. In particular im interested in Bifas,Synspilum,black belts and fenne thanks a bunch. And if you know growth rates that would be awesome as well.
Vieja Sexual Maturity
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Well I recently had Black belts that I purchased at 1 inch and after 2 years they were 8 inches. I would imagine the growth rate for the other is similar. I have had Synspilums before and they grew at the same but they do grow bigger that the Black Belts. The Bifasciatus grow at the same rate as the Synspilums. I currently have Synspilums that are growing well. As far as sexual maturity that I can not answer. But the black belts never paired up.
Thanks smitty for the information, I would have never guessed they grew so slow. What where you feeding them and temperature? 4 inches of growth seems awfully slow for one year.
Thats extremely slow for black belts. Ive seen them reach 12" in a year, if not more in some instances. Just recently a friend had a pair he purchased at 3" and 9 months later he had to re-home them at 12" because of the chaos they were causing in his 125. He kept the temps around 80 and fed them a staple diet of hikari with fresh shrimp several times a week.
8" in 2 years definitely explains how, in your other post about dovii, you were able to keep 4 dovii in a 150g for 2 years. The above mentioned friend and myself had male dovii reach 12" in just under a year.
What water temp/water change/feeding schedules do you have that are promoting such slow growth in what is typically a fast growing species?
yeah blackbelt are usually the fastest growing of the vieja spp. argenteas tend to be the slowest with my arg that is probably about 2yrs old (maybe a little less) only being 7in, most other vieja spp. show growth rates in between these two (though i have only personally kept argentea) but as far as maturity goes, that has more to do with age than size...
I got some synspilum that I got about 3 months ago at 1 inch and they area bout 4 inches now....so they grew 3 inches or more in 3 months feeding on Hikari cichlid bio gold + and crushed up massivore pellets
Thanks for the information, Argentea are true beauties. A rough estimate do you think 6-12 months old or older to be able to breed thanks.
That seems like good progress, then again the food you are providing for them is high i protein.
Thanks, from what you and Peacock ray have said it depends on the food since both of you guys reported feeding them with high protein food.
Also, I was looking at vieja Bifas i forget the rest but anyways i saw (2) color morphs one which was red and the other was not are these the same species? I will post pictures
and the other
are these fish of the same species? wh is their color so different
Thanks once again
Thanks for the information, Argentea are true beauties. A rough estimate do you think 6-12 months old or older to be able to breed thanks.
That seems like good progress, then again the food you are providing for them is high i protein.
Thanks, from what you and Peacock ray have said it depends on the food since both of you guys reported feeding them with high protein food.
Also, I was looking at vieja Bifas i forget the rest but anyways i saw (2) color morphs one which was red and the other was not are these the same species? I will post pictures
and the other
are these fish of the same species? wh is their color so different
Thanks once again
the color differences are different catch locations. there are more but i've only had experience with two, the "Rio Chacamax, and "Rio Usumacinta". I've actually got a pair from the Usumacinta that just spawned. I made a post if you want to see pics.