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he i need help experienced ones, i want some advice on breeding electric blue, what do i do i read all the sites about it and have a good idea but theres things that still confuse me.

i want to put 3 female blues and 1 male in a 80 litre tank, how am i going so far... i want to put them in a 150 but im to poor , im only 15 with a part time job give me a break. most other cases say they bread there blues in a big tank, will 80 litre still work.

and what fish to i remove once the fry are released,all except the mother.

i really want to breed some cichlids, please help me through it

I can't tell ya how to breed them, but I can bring up some questions you should ask yourself..

Ok, you have limited income and want to breed a cichlid.. How many tanks do you have and what equip ?
If you only have one tank, how much can you afford to spend to get a fry tank and set that up ?

Are you planning on selling the fry, giving them away or raising them ?

What size is your tank ?

Is you tank suitable for breeding them or do you have to add anything to bring tank to optimal conditions ?




[span class="edited"][Edited by DaFishMan 2004-07-16 20:31][/span]

The Amazon Nut...

80 liters is only about 20 gallons by my calculations. electric blues get to be 5-8+ inches long so you're already in trouble.

before breeding, you need to invest on at least a 75 gallon for those fish. i've got a male in my cichlid tank and he's about 6" and is still growing.

i'm sure that's not the advice you were hoping to hear, sorry.

Doubt you'll need a 75 for four of them, a 50 gallon or 40 gallon would do it. In a breeding situation with just the fish its fine.

If you are breeding them, you will need a fry tank, as mentioned above. At least a 10 gallon with a sponge or corner filter.

thanks for the info so far

what about an internal power filter in a 10 gallon for fry

Internal power filters may end up sucking in fry and killing it,sponge or corner would be better.

I really don't think a tank that size will work. Electric blues just get too big and they need to be fairly mature to breed. Why not try a smaller sort of cichlid, like rams, kribs, apistos or Tanganyikan shell dwellers?

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