Help with Texas Cichlid breeding
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take the babies away they will be eaten when breeding times comes around again, i pull them once free swimming put them in their own tank on higher then normal temps feed lots of protein rich food and you should be ok, i raise a whole batch of fry in a 29 gallon the parents are their biggest enemy
you can do it that way just make sure when transferring you dont remove them from the water,
i often take eggs away a lot, i actually have a pair of texas going right now ill post pics, and they are still
small both parents are right at 4.5'' currently, the male being lighter and my female almost blue looking,
both are green texas they like to lighten and darken and flare at each other a lot just before breeding,
and the male always stays directly next to her, youll notice a lot of digging and moving
gravel around also, they flare a lot but never any aggression, we have two girls and weve had to
remove one of them, once these pair they dont like anyone else at all we even remove the pleco
inside the tank, for these i wait until they hatch, but my flowerhorn and jags we always remove once the egss are laid we wait 24 hours to let him do his business then we remove, these guys start young and will keep breeding for us about every 6 weeks or so at the size, and slower once full grown, best of luck and ask away,
welcome to MFK
i often take eggs away a lot, i actually have a pair of texas going right now ill post pics, and they are still
small both parents are right at 4.5'' currently, the male being lighter and my female almost blue looking,
both are green texas they like to lighten and darken and flare at each other a lot just before breeding,
and the male always stays directly next to her, youll notice a lot of digging and moving
gravel around also, they flare a lot but never any aggression, we have two girls and weve had to
remove one of them, once these pair they dont like anyone else at all we even remove the pleco
inside the tank, for these i wait until they hatch, but my flowerhorn and jags we always remove once the egss are laid we wait 24 hours to let him do his business then we remove, these guys start young and will keep breeding for us about every 6 weeks or so at the size, and slower once full grown, best of luck and ask away,
welcome to MFK
ok i got a question texas are really looking like the gonna lay eggs soon and i was just wondering if you know if a female will lay eggs even if theres not a male to fertilize the eggs cause i totally think both of mine are females and one of them have already layed eggs once but the never hatched i think my pleco ate them in the night though so this time i wont have them with the pleco just to be sure
if the eggs turn white then they were not fertilized,females tube should look blunt on the end,male is pointed.females of many cichlid species can lay eggs with or without a mate