Hey everyone!
I just want to thank everyone in my last forum who helped me out before I start asking the questions here, I ended up removing the OB female and the questionable female and getting two 100% females in my tank. Along with that, I'd like to give more information about the tank so that maybe someone could help me out by giving me a time frame on how long it normally takes peacock cichlids to start breeding. I have colored up male, he's about 3 inches and I have one female that is slightly smaller, one about the same size, and one that is a bit bigger. My tank is a 40 breeder with a sponge filter rated at 75 gallons and two aqueon quiet flow 50 HOB filter, I have a sand substrate and large rocks protruding from the sand. The rocks cover I'd say about 1/2 of the bottom of the tank, leaving ample space for sand and I have a flat rock in hopes that they do the deed there. Im keeping the water at around 80 degrees just to be sure that they don't get any parasites or ich. I do two water changes a week, I take out 15 gallons (I measure in home depot buckets) so that's like 15/40 which is like 3/8... about 37% water change on Wednesdays and a 35% on Sundays. I just got these dudes so I'm not sure how they'll affect the water parameters but it seems as I'm not really letting the nitrate levels get too high before doing a water change so I should be in the clear. I feed them a mixture between flakes, Hikari pellets, new life pellets, blood worms, and brine shrimp, they seem to enjoy all of them. I keep the lights on in the tank for about 10 hours a day. There so far seems to be no aggression or hostility at all in the tank. My question again is, how long do I have before I need to start getting some more 10 gallon tanks to house fry? With the virus and everything going on, I'd like to be proactive instead of reactive as I don't know what's going to happen next week and so forth. As of now I have a spare 5G and 20G to house the fry, probably good enough for one batch but I'd just like to be ready. If anyone has any experience or guess I'm all ears!
Thank you!
I just want to thank everyone in my last forum who helped me out before I start asking the questions here, I ended up removing the OB female and the questionable female and getting two 100% females in my tank. Along with that, I'd like to give more information about the tank so that maybe someone could help me out by giving me a time frame on how long it normally takes peacock cichlids to start breeding. I have colored up male, he's about 3 inches and I have one female that is slightly smaller, one about the same size, and one that is a bit bigger. My tank is a 40 breeder with a sponge filter rated at 75 gallons and two aqueon quiet flow 50 HOB filter, I have a sand substrate and large rocks protruding from the sand. The rocks cover I'd say about 1/2 of the bottom of the tank, leaving ample space for sand and I have a flat rock in hopes that they do the deed there. Im keeping the water at around 80 degrees just to be sure that they don't get any parasites or ich. I do two water changes a week, I take out 15 gallons (I measure in home depot buckets) so that's like 15/40 which is like 3/8... about 37% water change on Wednesdays and a 35% on Sundays. I just got these dudes so I'm not sure how they'll affect the water parameters but it seems as I'm not really letting the nitrate levels get too high before doing a water change so I should be in the clear. I feed them a mixture between flakes, Hikari pellets, new life pellets, blood worms, and brine shrimp, they seem to enjoy all of them. I keep the lights on in the tank for about 10 hours a day. There so far seems to be no aggression or hostility at all in the tank. My question again is, how long do I have before I need to start getting some more 10 gallon tanks to house fry? With the virus and everything going on, I'd like to be proactive instead of reactive as I don't know what's going to happen next week and so forth. As of now I have a spare 5G and 20G to house the fry, probably good enough for one batch but I'd just like to be ready. If anyone has any experience or guess I'm all ears!
Thank you!
