do you guys have any tips on how to breed green terrors and how to grow them big i have a small green terror im pretty sure is a male but not 100% sure but i have a 50-gallon im gonna get a female only small one and hope for the best i get a male and female and do you guys have any tips on breeding. and if they breed should i let the baby's grow up with the parents since its only the pair in the tank with the babys. im going to try and pick out a female soon and i hope that i pic a female then ill let them grow up
green terror breeding
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I think you’ll run until issues in a 50 gallon, as green terrors get large and territorial. You’d want a 75 at the very least, with a 125 being better to keep them.
Forced pairs can be dicey, it’s best to get a group of juveniles and let them figure it out, especially if you’re not sure on the genders.
If you want to breed for maximum yield, remove the fry and raise them yourself. If you just want to breed for fun, you can keep the fry in there and watch the parents raise them, but do be prepared to separate as they get large and crowded.
As for growing, they are notoriously slow growers so it may take a few years to hit full size. Other than that, the best you can do is maintain good water quality and good food.
I think you’ll run until issues in a 50 gallon, as green terrors get large and territorial. You’d want a 75 at the very least, with a 125 being better to keep them.
Forced pairs can be dicey, it’s best to get a group of juveniles and let them figure it out, especially if you’re not sure on the genders.
If you want to breed for maximum yield, remove the fry and raise them yourself. If you just want to breed for fun, you can keep the fry in there and watch the parents raise them, but do be prepared to separate as they get large and crowded.
As for growing, they are notoriously slow growers so it may take a few years to hit full size. Other than that, the best you can do is maintain good water quality and good food.
Buy 6 and let them grow up together. Trying to buy and male and female cichlid and hoping for a pair is not a great idea, especially when the species has a male that is prone to killing females like green terrors. You will also need a large tank for this, the 50 gallon will not cut it.
If this is your first time breeding cichlids I would recommend you try a different species. Convict cichlids(and closely related species like Sajica) ,rainbow cichlids, and jewel cichlids are easy to breed and require far less space. There are numerous other cichlids that would work, but those come to mind first.
If this is your first time breeding cichlids I would recommend you try a different species. Convict cichlids(and closely related species like Sajica) ,rainbow cichlids, and jewel cichlids are easy to breed and require far less space. There are numerous other cichlids that would work, but those come to mind first.
i think i will get 2 or 3 more then i will have four and let them does that sound good but ther only going in a 50 gallon ill get them this afternoon
50 gallons is likely to result in the male killing the female - larger territorial cichlids tend to work like that.
Not comfortably - there is a high risk for aggression that way.
If you like green terror, you can try blue acara cichlids which are the smaller cousin.
i have blue acaras in my other tanks i just wanted to try a diferent cichlid because green terrors are really cool fish
You can't breed them in a 50 gallon. Not "maybe" the answer is definitely no. The female will die.
Look at the other options I mentioned, or give up on breeding green terrors until you have much larger tanks.
To be totally honest as much as I love GT they are not a great fish to breed. They don't tightly pair the way some other cichlids do, they need a lot of space to breed, and they aren't worth much if you do raise the fry. Unlike some other pretty fish male GT will still display and be beautiful without any females present so the usual incentive to breed non-valuable fish isn't really there.
You may get a spawn as GT will breed at a small size, but the odds of the male not killing the female in a tank that size is .001% only because I can't say never. My last pair spawned 5 times in a 125 with no issues. Then the male killed the female. Pair was stable with no aggression for almost 2 years. Woke up 1 morning and the
Dithers and the female were dead. Fry all ok.
Dithers and the female were dead. Fry all ok.