Tips on breeding.

[Fanatic_Fish_Lunatic]

Hey, can you give me breeding tips for Dovii, Managuensis, Green Texas, Oscar and Rivulatus? I'm not doing it now, and I'll probably wait till them grow larger. My pair of dovii is at 4", a pair of managuensis is at 4", a pair of green texas is at 4", a pair of oscars is at 5" and a pair of rivulatus is at 4".

 

[danotaylor]

First tip would be to get them into their own tanks if they aren’t already…the purpose of this is to prevent total carnage from a raging breeding pair housed with other fish…especially other raging breeding pairs
180gal minimum for each individual pair of Dovii, managuensis & oscars
120-125gal for each individual pair of Texas & rivulatus.
I don’t know that there is any particular requirements except for consistently clean water, appropriate tank decor (pots or natural scape), good quality food and time.

 

[Fanatic_Fish_Lunatic]

First tip would be to get them into their own tanks if they aren’t already…the purpose of this is to prevent total carnage from a raging breeding pair housed with other fish…especially other raging breeding pairs
180gal minimum for each individual pair of Dovii, managuensis & oscars
120-125gal for each individual pair of Texas & rivulatus.
I don’t know that there is any particular requirements except for consistently clean water, appropriate tank decor (pots or natural scape), good quality food and time.

Good things I have all clean water, pots and nice scape and substrate for them. Anyways, Dovii and Managuensis pairs will be a total carnage though. Some people don't understand that no matter how well-behaved your cichlids are or how nice their personality is, once they're breeding, all bets are off.

 

[danotaylor]

Indeed. I have seen a 3-4” breeding pair of convicts totally destroy 10”+ Red Devils
So you do plan to house each of your your pairs separately then?

 

[Fanatic_Fish_Lunatic]

Indeed. I have seen a 3-4” breeding pair of convicts totally destroy 10”+ Red Devils
So you do plan to house each of your your pairs separately then?

That will be the case. I have another pair of 12+" dovii, but they're in a very large pond with other cichlids. So I'm not worried about them too much. But these pairs are in a tank with umbee, red devil, midas, motaguense and more(these guys don't have their pairs yet). I'll wait till they hit the right size and ready for breeding, and I'll take them out of the tank.

 

[Fanatic_Fish_Lunatic]

Indeed. I have seen a 3-4” breeding pair of convicts totally destroy 10”+ Red Devils
So you do plan to house each of your your pairs separately then?

Believe it or not. I've owned peacock bass, black nasty, cuban, salvini, grammodes (mini dovii), paratilapia polleni, motaguense, managuensis, green texas, red devil, midas, firemouth, red texas, flowerhorn, blood parrot, dovii, vieja argentea and many other types of vieja, jack dempsey, umbee, oscar, rivulatus and red terror and yet I've never owned even a single convict cichlid, lol.