cichlidsmad

hi i had 1 male and female electric yellow and was told to get more as my female was getting picked to much i got 3 more females and turns out that they protect the smaller of them

as they come from different petshops i dont see why?
there stoping the male from trying to breed

what do i do?


sry about the long post

navyscuba

Well that is the rule on cichlids 1 male for every 3 to 4 females. i'm too. Is weird.

Angela_96

I hate to ask this but are you sure they are all female? Labs are so hard to tell apart, I brought home what I thought was 2 more females and a male, I ended up w/ 2 males and 2 female labs. I actually sold my breeding group and shipped them out yesterday keeping one of my males I call ol yeller (hes the oldest fish in my tank and I think the most handsome).

cichlidsmad

yes im very sure since when i bought them they were adult size so what could have happend? so im confused

Angela_96

The ones I bought were adults as well. If they are for sure females w/ the one male it may be like my group of hongi breeders the females are always in a tiff. I would give it a few days and see how it goes, move the rocks/caves around so they all have to re-establish territories.

The male could just be flirting right now as well, the females will look like their full of eggs around their anal fin you will actually see the eggs come out of the female, drop on a rock while the male/female are going in a head to tail circle she will get the you know what in her mouth and then pick up the egg and fertilize it, they do this until all the eggs are fertilized one by one and in her mouth.

cichlidsmad

the male is that the one that splashes u?

or am i thinking of someone else?

cichlidsmad

ok the smaller female and my male were going in circles last night and when they stoped that she followed him all night it was weird didnt know what they were doing

Angela_96

If your talking about ol yeller yep, hes loaded w/ personallity thats why I kept him. I am actually turning my 55 into a "show" tank instead of for breeding. Its for all my fav cichilds.

cichlidsmad

kool i think thats a gd idea i would look gd as well

Angela_96

Thats def spawning behavior. My hongi's are awlful my females are holding right now and they all look like they have been through a shredder where the other females fight. I end up treating the tank w/ melafix after they spawn and separate the females.

I had the group on aquabid and deleted the auction because they spawned last night. I think I am going to have to break up the "group" and sell them split up, I would hate for someone else to deal w/ this headache.

cichlidsmad

o ok bad luck its so annying when u want to get rid of some then something happens and their all holding