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Breeding Red Devils
hi I was wondering if you would be kind enough to help me. < will try, Don
here.> I have one 80 gallon tank with 5 red devils in there. one male 8 inches
and the rest are 4 inches I'm not sure there sex but I would like to breed them
can you tell me how I should do this. also even more important I have purchased
a male and female blue hap Ahli which I was told have and would breed. can you
give me any tips or advice on how I can get them to breed. any tips at all would
really help especially for the haps. (ex, feeding, food, water, tank set up,)
etc. thanks again love your site
First let me say that these two fish require very different water conditions.
The Devils need soft water with a pH around 7. The Haps are African and live in
very hard water with a pH of 8 to 8.5. I would not suggest you mix them in a
single tank.
The Devils are best sexed by fin shape. Males will tend to have more pointed
fins, the females more rounded. With 5 in one tank you may see them pair off. If
two start to take over one area of the tank, that's your pair. You should remove
the others as they will become very aggressive while breeding. Feed rich, meaty
foods to condition the female. Frozen Blood worms, small garden worms and such
are good conditioning foods for most Cichlids. Stay away from feeder fish unless
you can QT them to unsure health.
The Haps are mouth breeders. Conditioning for the female is even more important
as she will not eat while holding the eggs.
Good luck with them.
Don
Red Devil Sex(ual Dimorphism)
I have purchased a Red Devil. How do I know if it is Male Of Female? Angie
< Males generally are larger with longer fins. Big males sometimes get humps on their foreheads.-Chuck>
Breeding Red Devils
That's great to know. I had 3 Rosey barbs in with them and one came up
with his head missing. So I remove the other two. Right now I have
Yellow labs, red zebras, ob peacocks, and moorii fry's. That's about
150 fry's. I'm also hoping that my Frontosas will be spawning soon.
Their just about the right size now. I have had a red devil for about
two years and thought I would get a male and see if I could get them to
breed. So I got a juv red devil thinking that he would never be dominate
to her since he grew up with her. But I was wrong. I just recently had
to put a divider into the tank because he was always chasing her into
her castle. And every time she laid eggs she does it inside her castle,
that he is never aloud in. I was thinking that the next time she got
ready to laid eggs again. That I would remove her castle so that would
only leave the palm tree to lay on. And after she laid them I would move
the palm to the males side and see if he would fertilize them and then
move them back. Got any thoughts on this?
< If the tank divider is porous and water can move to either side then leave the
castle in there and the male should be able to fertilize the eggs from the other
side of the divider. Many cichlid breeders use this technique so that the males
will not kill the females. They lay so many eggs that even if only half get
fertilized that this still leaves you with over a 1,000 fry.-Chuck>
Red Devil Cichlid Without A Mate 12/26/05
Hello, Great Site!
< Thanks, We like it too.>
I have a solitary female Red Devil in a 80 gallon tank. She laid a LOT of eggs
on her black pipe (her cave). I am
curious if laying eggs without a mate present is normal behavior?
Will the eggs just sit there forever? Will they eventually come off
and get filtered out? She's incredibly aggressive right now, and I'm concerned about how she will be when her eggs don't hatch.
< In 24 hrs or less the eggs will fungus or die. They will decompose and be
picked up in the filter. Females in good shape will do this even without a male
present. After the eggs are gone she will calm down until she does it again.
maybe in two weeks.-Chuck>
Breeding Red Devil Cichlids 6/3/06
Hi Bob, I have a large female red devil who lays eggs often. None of the
eggs have hatched yet. She had paired up with a Pacu at first. We replaced the
Pacu with a male red devil. She stopped laying and tried to kill the male. We
moved him out and it took about three months and she has started laying
again. This time she has paired up with a Jack Dempsey. They killed a smaller
Jack that was in the tank with them. We moved the male devil back in and are
wondering how to tell if the eggs are going to be viable or not. They started
out almost clear and some have turned opaque white???? How can we increase the
chance of actually having babies? Aurelia
<Ideally you would want to pick six small red devils and let them grow up
together. This almost always will give you a compatible pair. It is much more
difficult to pair up adult fish. The problem here is the female already has a
territory established and the male is an intruder. he has not been recognized
yet as a potential mate. Clear eggs are good and white eggs are dead or
unfertilized. Try placing both fish in the same tank with a divider in
between. As long as they can still see each other they can spawn and fertilize
a good portion of the eggs. You will probably have to make your own divider out
of plastic egg crate type of lighting panels.-Chuck>
Red devil breeding 2/6/07
I have a male and female red devil. Their eggs hatched about 1 1/2
weeks ago but she laid more about 3 days ago and now I can't find any of
their babies from the first batch, I think they killed them.
<Happens>
Why would they have so many babies, and why would they kill them?
<Mmm, survival value... many young lost in the wild... and an abundance of
young (as with our species) in propitious circumstances... And "stress",
adaptive behavior from being in small confines in captivity. Bob Fenner>
Help/red devil cichlids.
Female Cichlids Spawning Without Males 8/26/07
Sorry to bother you but I have a young I think female red devil and a 4 year
old. I thought it was a male red devil midas mix. I have seen our (male) making
a nest a day ago but has nothing to do with the female. Now I have eggs and the
female is in the corner. Is it possible that I have 2 females? Who makes the
nest, mom or dad? Is it possible that he might be a male and she laid eggs but
he chased her away? He is protecting the eggs. Great, how do I tell if they are
good or not?? Should I remove the algae eaters from the tank? Jamie
< You have two females and one has laid eggs. Usually the eggs are not fertile
and die within a day. Very rarely the female may have both sex organs and is
able to fertilize the eggs. Only heard of it twice.-Chuck>
Red Devil Fry Eat The Scales
off the Female Parent... 12/20/07
Hello Guys...
<Howdy>
My Red Devils recently had a successful batch of fry. The fry are now about 1
month old, and are growing at a good pace. I just recently separated the 2
parents, by putting the crate divider back in (he was getting overly
aggressive).
<Good technique>
The fry swim freely to either side. She had so many, I took alot
<No such word>
of the fry out and moved them to a separate tank (they are doing great). There
are still quite a few fry in the tank wit the parents..
<Good>
My question is: Is it normal for the fry to eat the scales off of the female
down to the "white meat" it appears to be getting infected.
<No... not normal, or healthy>
I know the parents produce a mucus for the fry to eat.. "should they still be
eating the mucus at the one month mark". Do I need to remove all the fry?
<I would, yes>
I feed the fry good also.. But they still are constantly peeking at the female
heavily. I don't want the Female to become sick.
I would appreciate any advice
thanks
KD
<Move the young... start looking for customers... stores that will buy, give you
good credit for them. Bob Fenner>
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