Remove babies and put them in a bare bottom tank with sponge filter. Feed newly hatch brine shrimp. Don't over feed at one sitting. Feed that two to three times a day. Then a week or two later add crushed up flake along with the brine. And watch them grow!
Yeah I winced when he said he fed his fry once a day.... I have endlers and dalmatian mollies. I'm moving up to acaras now that I have a bigger tank. I would like to breed a pair a few times and eventually I'd like a tank with only males
I've breed and raised many types of cichlids in the past, including master piece flowerhorns. Once the eggs hatch switch to a sponge filter only. Don't pull out the fry, pull out the parents once the fry swimming on their own. 2 days after they become free swimming you can try feeding them egg yolk of a hard boiled egg. Just a tiny pinch of egg yolk at first a few times a day until you can see them eating it regularly. You can tell they're eating and full when their belly is yellow-tan - full of egg yolk. Then you can increase the feedings and quantity. That'll get them past the fry stage. After that you can use powder food or crushed flake food. Good luck!
Kyle L Thanks Kyle -- Great sounding advice and very doable. Now I need to get the pair to pried in their new aquarium. I've been feeding them a lot and doing water changes. Any other advice?
fincasters Since they haven't spawned yet, take the opportunity to remove the gravel. You can leave in the larger decorative pieces. The purpose it to make it easier on yourself to provide a clean environment for the fry. Gravel traps waste and is difficult and time consuming to clean. Water changes, raising and lowering the temperature will help to induce breeding however letting them take their own time will yield a relatively larger batch of eggs. Just providing protean rich diet.
PE Mysis is a good choice. You can also try frozen blood worms or black worms. Here are a few tips 1. Check your water parameters. Is ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, hardness, ph all within range? if not, adjust accordingly. 2. Check the temperature. You can drop it down to 74 degrees for a few days then bump it up to 84 degrees for a few days. then set it back to the normal temp of ~78-80. 3. Are they swimming together and cleaning/preparing a nesting area? if yes, that's good. if no, try arranging the decor so that everything is in one of the back corners. 4. When you do your water changes do they swim around freely or do they hide? if they hide then reduce the frequency of the water changes. 5. Have patience 6. If you don't have patience - put in a divider with the pair on one side and a new similar looking fish on the other side. a new fish in their territory will strengthen their bond and hopefully kick in their instinct to procreate. 7. As a last resort, you can separate the pair for a few day. Just remember to change up the decor right before reuniting them. Warning: There's a chance they will fight when reunited. 8. Just enjoy them as they are. :)
Kyle L Kyle -- Great advice. Thanks. In order to do a new Fincast -- I've moved the whole group of EBA into the 29 with the pair. I can a;ready see the increased bonding -- so who knows? Like I said originally any breeding that's ever happened in my aquariums has been by chance and I lake the patience and you mention above. I'll keep working on this. Good info for all of the viewers of Fincasters!
I always pull my fry out as soon as they are free swimming. Then I place them in a barebottom sponge filter tank with a arrangement of hides. Seems like in most cases the parents slowly pick off the young. So I recommend taking 2/3rds of the fry away from them, leaving some for them to defend
With my regular blue acara's I scooped out the fry after their third day wiggling and placed them in a high walled aquarium riddled with snails (and more importantly their eggs) A small filter high up in a corner to prevent sucking the fry up and the abundance of tiny snails and eggs did the feeding for me. They grew very fast on that diet.
I have successfully raised 2 sets of fry twice with both parents in a 29 gallon around 3 months ago. I had this tank next to my bed so that I could keep a close eye on it. The male would start eatin the fry from the first spawn. It seemed to me like he was trying to make the female spawn again by doing so. My pair has proving to spawn every 16 days. I split them up after the 5th spawn to sell off some of the fry. I feed the fry frozen brine shrimp and cichlid flakes that I chopped up with a razor blade.
I have electric blue acaras as well. I raised two batches of fries so far and its going well. You have to seperate the fries totally from the male and female, take the fry our and put them in a seperate tank. I only did this once the fry was one week old.
I have been extremely successful at breeding angelfish I have tried all sorts of foods and by far the best results were yeilded from newly hatched baby brine shrimp, it's nutritional value is amazing, you'll get very quick growth from your fry because it triggers their instinct to feed and is very high in protein
I bred Convicts and Kribensis successfully many moons ago. Theres a liquid drip solution for fry that worked for me. Cichlid fry need microscopic food. Liquifry or something similar.
Seperate the the breeding pair for the young as soon as they are free swimmers. Make sure the water quality is good and the I let’s to the filters are covered with a foam sponge if your using a hang on the back or a canister filter. Feed the fry fresh hatched brineshrimp for the first two to three weeks then move them over to powered flakes. I hope this helps....
I had my electric blue acaras breed and I put the eggs in a separate tank , I initially had a air stone and a filter running in the small 5 gallon tank. After the started moving around, I noticed that they were getting sucked in by the filter. I then turned off the filter completely and just left the air stone and begin to do small water changes from my bigger 75 gallon tank every week. I personally mix between dried brain shrimp and smashed flakes when feeding. So far I am noticing steady and healthy growth of the fry and none are disappearing/dying. (I am not an expert and this is just my first patch or fry, although my breeding pair had laid eggs again which surprised me, only 2 weeks duration between the two patches). Good luck
+Nyxs Legacy Good job. I'm quite sure the filter got most of my first batches. Now I've moved on from my breeding pair. Considering getting another bunch. too much fun.
Make sure you have a sponge filter (stops babies getting sucked up) and change the water at least twice a week. This worked with our Blue Acara. You may need to remove the fry and put them into a small tank (5 gallon) this way the babies will be able to find the food.
Rummynose tetra stay in the bottom of the tank, not a good tetra to keep with them, especially when the acara gets bigger, I keep blood fin tetras, bigger size, as they stay on top as a school, or bigger tetra species
Electric blue acara they say is peaceful but some is likely to eat small moving fish. They are very heavy when it comes to feeding to be aware of keeping small and slow moving fish because they will eat them. If you're new to fish keeping I would just keep a male and female for these types of fish.
Mine ate my neon tetras. I thought they would be OK as well since the acara was on the smaller side. The upside is that my mollies provide a constant supply for the acara. Sorry to hear about your tetras.
Acaras are a fun fish to breed. They'll have about three or four clutches before they get it right. Don't remove the parents. Let them learn to raise their young. It takes time and patience, however it's all worth the wait!
Interesting video.. I have 2 full grown male Electric Blue Acara and 2 females.. They are in with many Southies up to 11 inchers.. No problems, for over 20 Blackskirt Tetras.. Remove eggs and put in bare bottom tank as suggested.. Dont mix species..
Just an fyi...the orange blotch/ob is an African cichlid which requires different water parameters than the electric blue acara South American cichlids.
I have a 29 gal tank with 6 Columbian tetras and too many orange/black Platys. I need crowd control. I was thinking of getting an Acara, just one, as a centerpiece fish and as birth control. Is my tank too small? At this point, I have no issue with an Acara eating all the Platys as I would like to try something else. the tank is well planted.
Love these acaras ! You've really got me into the species. Good luck with the fry perhaps you could move them into a ice cream box with some holes drilled so the male can't eat them ? If he is eating them !?
+FishPie Good idea about the box. If they breed again, I will give it a try. some of the fish have been moved to a 400 gallon tank in a museum -- so I may need to wait until the next purchase.
+fincasters a museum !! Sounds like a good video to me 😉 I like the honesty in your videos it's good to know that an experienced aquarist doesn't always know what might happen but isn't afraid to admit it !
I wish u luck in breeding ur acaras. Im trying to do the Same thing on my channel. Ur video is the first in-depth one ive seen with EBA fry. Thanks for the awsome videos.
I plan on buying 1 or 2 electric blue acara's during the local pet shop's black Friday sale. Do you think they'll get along with my 3 clown loaches and. Chinese algae eater as my other cichlids do?
Hey, your videos are very good and your voice sounds like you should be doing the intros for films. by the way what size tank have you hot those adult blue acara in?
I have had two separate fry births and two have survived out of each group. I have more plants and denser cover for them to hide. Have breeding par in one tank. Remove them a few days after birthing. Let fry have a whole tank. Good luck
I always have better luck pulling the male rather than the female. Maybe the female was trying to protect her fry from the male by eating them. I always leave the female with the fry between 1 and 2 weeks after they become free swimming. I raise both central Amadeo an and African cichlids that way.
so my electric blue acara is young now (2") but you're saying it could eat some of the fishes in my community tank? Surely not blood parrot but how about red tailed shark, angelicus loaches and dwarf gourami could all be contenders? for now everything looks just peachy..
i grew the babies to a decent size half my thumb and put them in with the mother father and some other fishes not to big and i just caught the father eat one of them cant believe it they are big and he was choking on the baby idk what to do now i have too many
I'd have removed the male as well, raise the babies by themselves. People have been getting fry from EBA breedings, but I am wondering how healthy the offspring are. Perhaps its like EBJD where you can't breed two EBJD together and you need to breed them to a normal one, then breed back to an EBJD or breed the normal looking het. EB's together. The EBA is a relatively new mutation on the market so there's not a lot to go on in terms of care. I will say this, I do have one EBA in my 75 with the rest of my cichlids. Its also a high tech planted tank, everything grows fine (I just have some algae issues due too some issues with the setup and equipment of the tank though that I'll be battling forever or at least until I move everything into a different tank and start fresh, but the fish don't bug the plants). They are aggressive for the size, and more outgoing than other fish from what I've seen. Still a nice fish though, not sure what their max size is since the exact species that the EBA comes from is not 100% known, and even if it was it could be like the EBJD in that EBJD will generally stay smaller than regular JD's and act differently as well.
how do you keep them from eating the plants, i have a 155 with to golden sevrums, an angelfish, 2 geophages , and 4-5 little corey cats, i had a few silver dollars but got rid of them hoping that would solve the plant eating but it didnt, any tips on certain plants or do they need to be a certain size to last, i read maybe larger swords
Electric Blue Dempseys and Acaras are not "real" mother nature fish. Same with Flower Horns and Blood Parrot Cichlids. They are just plain hard to breed. Possibly because mother nature didn't give the parents or the fry instincts. Man did. With the cichlids I bred, I always removed the parents as soon as the fry started leaving the nest. The females often times guard the nest a little closer and spit the babies back into the nest. When she can't keep up anymore. Tehn I'd remove the parents. The only food gave the fry was ground up flakes like good ol tetramin. I would stir up gravel away from the fry because they seem to eat the gunk that gets stirred up. This has worked for Convicts, jewel cichlids, port acaras, firemouths, jack dempseys and a dull colored cichlid called a "Chanchito". I think green terrors would work this way too because they are closely related to Port Acaras.
Hello, I had the same problem with my electric blue acaras: after spawning the male did chase away the female nearly to death, even neglecting the eggs, just to chase away the female.the result was the eggs been eaten away by other fish. on the second spawn, i just did take away the eggs (on a small stone) and raised them exacly like the angelfish eggs. everything went perfect, they are easy to raise. just one thought: is the beaviour of normal blue acaras the same? I thought I just had a bad temper male, but after your story, I see that yours also had that female chasing temper.... now The female is dead,( too beaten after the chase) but I have about 50 adolecents that will spawn soon, I am curious to see if the caracter will pass on , or if I can find some good husbands... Warm regards, and thanks for sharing your video Pat
Thanks Patrick -- I decided that's what I needed to do. Moved them to their own 29 -- and of course they stopped breeding! I'm giving them a rest and we'll try again soon!
An advice for what it's Worth... You mention you'll try remove the fry to save it next time but you should consider leaving them in the water and environment they're born in for them to grow and instead remove the parents... Also use so fine mosquito non metalic mesh for filter intake to prevent the brood to disapear being sucked up... Thank for the video (I must admit I laughed a lot when I saw the "before" and "after" your rummynoses and plant. Who again advised you to mix them both ? But the acaras grew nice...
+Alan Alain Hi Alan -- Ha Ha. Thanks. I took my own stupid advice. The acaras were small when I put them in there -- and well... you know. That's why I put the video out there. Live and learn. :)
I have 3 blue acaras in a 225 gallon aquarium and they just had a brood of maybe 300 fry. the tank mates are monster pleco's and a Fire Eel that is 34 inches long. mom and dad care for the babies non-stop but they have been vanishing slowly also. not sure that my case is filter suck up because I have overflow boxes and the babies are not ever close to the wear. I think they pleco's are getting them, the Eel don't care she only likes night crawlers.
why pull they fry and not the adults seems easy and safer for the fry start them breeding in a barebottom tank siwth slate to hatch then pull the adults
I watched this vid to late. I bought an electric blue acara, and it was horrid. Any type of pelagic fish got beaten up to the point they died. EVEN MY FAVORITE PUFFER!!!! I got so mad I put him with the piranha and they are living peacfully. My advice is dont fall in love with the beauty of this fish and dont trust any cichlid.
fincasters I've had similar results with my German Blue Rams where the parents would eat the eggs/fry. After several unsuccessful results, I began to remove the eggs and put them into a large jar, which the idea is from ruclips.net/video/p_nnF-bcE7c/видео.html. I ordered some sponge filter from the vendor when I saw this awesome rearing technique but didn't use the bottom jar sponge filter because my fry were getting stuck in the crevices. Instead, I put on a small tube pre-filter sponge at the end of the tube and suspended it in the jar. No more dead fry being caught in the crevices. You can see in one of my videos where I have the jar in a 10 gallon tank with an older batch of fry growing up. This way, when I feed my smaller fry baby brine shrimp, any that don't get eaten will be sucked up into the tube filter and out into the water column. At that point, the older fry will have their opportunity to clean up any uneaten baby brine shrimp. I also keep a mystery snail in the jar to eat up any babies that do eventually die, which allows me to not have to maintain dead fry from rotting and molding. Video of my implementation from the video above: ruclips.net/video/IqN0rZh_ozA/видео.html
After a week tak both parents out and feed the fry spiralina flakes and mysys shrimp. They will grow quickly if you have them in a decent size tank, Acara aren't great parents like convicts and honduran red point cichlids
Completely agree, the acaras defend their young well but do end up eating them. I've had good luck though feeding my fry crushed boiled egg yolk as they recognized it quickly after they finished eating their yolk sacks from when they hatched. Also my Acara fry like to dig themselves under the gravel and sometimes get trapped under it so a tank with no gravel might be something worth trying.
+Thomas Smith I need some advice my neon blue acara laid eggs and now I have wigglers what be the best way to take them out and put them in a different tank
Even red eye tetras? They grow to about 3 inches in size.. is a blue acara's mouth bigger than 3 inch? I am talking about keeping a single blue acara, not multiples.
Hi Charlie -- I agree -- I witnessed some of that -- so I have changed the filter situation around in their new 29 gallon aquarium. Now of course, they have decided to stop breeding! Doing lots of water inches and feeding heavily. Any other advice?
u shuld have 64 gallon tank but when the smallone gett like 1-2 cm u have to take small fish to another aquarium some frey go in aquarium pump!!! feed fish big krill and small fish will eat it to look here www.oceannutrition.com/post/krill/
Remove babies and put them in a bare bottom tank with sponge filter. Feed newly hatch brine shrimp. Don't over feed at one sitting. Feed that two to three times a day. Then a week or two later add crushed up flake along with the brine. And watch them grow!
Yeah I winced when he said he fed his fry once a day.... I have endlers and dalmatian mollies. I'm moving up to acaras now that I have a bigger tank. I would like to breed a pair a few times and eventually I'd like a tank with only males
Why bare bottom?
@@ANTONl027 easier to keep clean, clean tank while raising fry is imperative.
You have to feed them newly hatched brine shrimp in the beginning, otherwise they will die. Not the fault of the parents!
I've breed and raised many types of cichlids in the past, including master piece flowerhorns. Once the eggs hatch switch to a sponge filter only. Don't pull out the fry, pull out the parents once the fry swimming on their own. 2 days after they become free swimming you can try feeding them egg yolk of a hard boiled egg. Just a tiny pinch of egg yolk at first a few times a day until you can see them eating it regularly. You can tell they're eating and full when their belly is yellow-tan - full of egg yolk. Then you can increase the feedings and quantity. That'll get them past the fry stage. After that you can use powder food or crushed flake food. Good luck!
Kyle L Thanks Kyle -- Great sounding advice and very doable. Now I need to get the pair to pried in their new aquarium. I've been feeding them a lot and doing water changes. Any other advice?
fincasters
Since they haven't spawned yet, take the opportunity to remove the gravel. You can leave in the larger decorative pieces. The purpose it to make it easier on yourself to provide a clean environment for the fry. Gravel traps waste and is difficult and time consuming to clean.
Water changes, raising and lowering the temperature will help to induce breeding however letting them take their own time will yield a relatively larger batch of eggs. Just providing protean rich diet.
Kyle -- they are not breeding -- still doing lots of water changes. Switching the diet over to PE Mysis. Let's see if that works.
PE Mysis is a good choice. You can also try frozen blood worms or black worms.
Here are a few tips
1. Check your water parameters. Is ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, hardness, ph all within range? if not, adjust accordingly.
2. Check the temperature. You can drop it down to 74 degrees for a few days then bump it up to 84 degrees for a few days. then set it back to the normal temp of ~78-80.
3. Are they swimming together and cleaning/preparing a nesting area? if yes, that's good. if no, try arranging the decor so that everything is in one of the back corners.
4. When you do your water changes do they swim around freely or do they hide? if they hide then reduce the frequency of the water changes.
5. Have patience
6. If you don't have patience - put in a divider with the pair on one side and a new similar looking fish on the other side. a new fish in their territory will strengthen their bond and hopefully kick in their instinct to procreate.
7. As a last resort, you can separate the pair for a few day. Just remember to change up the decor right before reuniting them. Warning: There's a chance they will fight when reunited.
8. Just enjoy them as they are. :)
Kyle L Kyle -- Great advice. Thanks. In order to do a new Fincast -- I've moved the whole group of EBA into the 29 with the pair. I can a;ready see the increased bonding -- so who knows? Like I said originally any breeding that's ever happened in my aquariums has been by chance and I lake the patience and you mention above. I'll keep working on this. Good info for all of the viewers of Fincasters!
I always pull my fry out as soon as they are free swimming. Then I place them in a barebottom sponge filter tank with a arrangement of hides. Seems like in most cases the parents slowly pick off the young. So I recommend taking 2/3rds of the fry away from them, leaving some for them to defend
With my regular blue acara's I scooped out the fry after their third day wiggling and placed them in a high walled aquarium riddled with snails (and more importantly their eggs) A small filter high up in a corner to prevent sucking the fry up and the abundance of tiny snails and eggs did the feeding for me. They grew very fast on that diet.
+Niels van der Berg Great idea -- I guess the lesson is to have snails!
I have successfully raised 2 sets of fry twice with both parents in a 29 gallon around 3 months ago. I had this tank next to my bed so that I could keep a close eye on it. The male would start eatin the fry from the first spawn. It seemed to me like he was trying to make the female spawn again by doing so. My pair has proving to spawn every 16 days. I split them up after the 5th spawn to sell off some of the fry. I feed the fry frozen brine shrimp and cichlid flakes that I chopped up with a razor blade.
I have electric blue acaras as well. I raised two batches of fries so far and its going well. You have to seperate the fries totally from the male and female, take the fry our and put them in a seperate tank. I only did this once the fry was one week old.
I have been extremely successful at breeding angelfish I have tried all sorts of foods and by far the best results were yeilded from newly hatched baby brine shrimp, it's nutritional value is amazing, you'll get very quick growth from your fry because it triggers their instinct to feed and is very high in protein
I bred Convicts and Kribensis successfully many moons ago. Theres a liquid drip solution for fry that worked for me. Cichlid fry need microscopic food. Liquifry or something similar.
Had a 4th batch become free swimming today. Will be moving the fry tomorrow. Hoping for better luck this time.
Seperate the the breeding pair for the young as soon as they are free swimmers. Make sure the water quality is good and the I let’s to the filters are covered with a foam sponge if your using a hang on the back or a canister filter. Feed the fry fresh hatched brineshrimp for the first two to three weeks then move them over to powered flakes. I hope this helps....
I had my electric blue acaras breed and I put the eggs in a separate tank , I initially had a air stone and a filter running in the small 5 gallon tank. After the started moving around, I noticed that they were getting sucked in by the filter. I then turned off the filter completely and just left the air stone and begin to do small water changes from my bigger 75 gallon tank every week. I personally mix between dried brain shrimp and smashed flakes when feeding. So far I am noticing steady and healthy growth of the fry and none are disappearing/dying. (I am not an expert and this is just my first patch or fry, although my breeding pair had laid eggs again which surprised me, only 2 weeks duration between the two patches). Good luck
+Nyxs Legacy Good job. I'm quite sure the filter got most of my first batches. Now I've moved on from my breeding pair. Considering getting another bunch. too much fun.
+fincasters I really enjoy the electric blue acaras breeding and caring for their babies, it's really fun. It's a really great looking fish.
Make sure you have a sponge filter (stops babies getting sucked up) and change the water at least twice a week. This worked with our Blue Acara. You may need to remove the fry and put them into a small tank (5 gallon) this way the babies will be able to find the food.
Rummynose tetra stay in the bottom of the tank, not a good tetra to keep with them, especially when the acara gets bigger, I keep blood fin tetras, bigger size, as they stay on top as a school, or bigger tetra species
Feeding fry once a day.... Ouch that hurt my soul. All those fry starved to death.
Electric blue acara they say is peaceful but some is likely to eat small moving fish. They are very heavy when it comes to feeding to be aware of keeping small and slow moving fish because they will eat them. If you're new to fish keeping I would just keep a male and female for these types of fish.
Mine ate my neon tetras. I thought they would be OK as well since the acara was on the smaller side. The upside is that my mollies provide a constant supply for the acara. Sorry to hear about your tetras.
As stated I do the same bare bottom sponge filter and keeping the water quality always in check
Acaras are a fun fish to breed. They'll have about three or four clutches before they get it right. Don't remove the parents. Let them learn to raise their young. It takes time and patience, however it's all worth the wait!
I feel like i'm waiting for the fish to split into teams and start playing sports every time I hear your voice! Are you a sportscaster?
very nice video, love the info, wish i had some advice. Looks like you're almost there.
Interesting video.. I have 2 full grown male Electric Blue Acara and 2 females.. They are in with many Southies up to 11 inchers.. No problems, for over 20 Blackskirt Tetras.. Remove eggs and put in bare bottom tank as suggested.. Dont mix species..
Black skirt tetras are bigger than rummynose tetras so they’re a good tank mate.
I am glad I saw this as I was going to add the same to my community tank.
I bred these myself. lovely fish!
All the audio for this video is on the left side
Just an fyi...the orange blotch/ob is an African cichlid which requires different water parameters than the electric blue acara South American cichlids.
I have a 29 gal tank with 6 Columbian tetras and too many orange/black Platys. I need crowd control. I was thinking of getting an Acara, just one, as a centerpiece fish and as birth control. Is my tank too small? At this point, I have no issue with an Acara eating all the Platys as I would like to try something else. the tank is well planted.
Love these acaras ! You've really got me into the species. Good luck with the fry perhaps you could move them into a ice cream box with some holes drilled so the male can't eat them ? If he is eating them !?
+FishPie Good idea about the box. If they breed again, I will give it a try. some of the fish have been moved to a 400 gallon tank in a museum -- so I may need to wait until the next purchase.
+fincasters a museum !! Sounds like a good video to me 😉 I like the honesty in your videos it's good to know that an experienced aquarist doesn't always know what might happen but isn't afraid to admit it !
hey that guy in the beginning talking about chemi-pure is the owner at my LFS
I wish u luck in breeding ur acaras. Im trying to do the Same thing on my channel. Ur video is the first in-depth one ive seen with EBA fry. Thanks for the awsome videos.
Dan Spriggs Thanks Dan -- Let me know how your efforts go!
Will do
I plan on buying 1 or 2 electric blue acara's during the local pet shop's black Friday sale. Do you think they'll get along with my 3 clown loaches and. Chinese algae eater as my other cichlids do?
I do think so. Should be just fine. Did you buy the Fish? What did they cost? I was in a store yesterday and they were $24.95 ea.
fincasters I bought 1 for $10 and she's doing great and is very friendly to every fish
fincasters I just picked up one for 15.99 It was too good of a deal to pass up
Man mixed new world and Africans. Ballsy
Hey, your videos are very good and your voice sounds like you should be doing the intros for films. by the way what size tank have you hot those adult blue acara in?
Hi Damofoxo -- Thanks for the voice kudos! I have the Acaras in a 55 gallon tank.
He does have an awesome voice and you’re spot on he’s a news caster in my hometown!
I have had two separate fry births and two have survived out of each group. I have more plants and denser cover for them to hide. Have breeding par in one tank. Remove them a few days after birthing. Let fry have a whole tank. Good luck
i got a juvinile cichlid with tetras and it did not try eating them or attacking them
Try putting them in a breeding net
Good videos bud
+jdssurf Thanks. -- jc
thank's fore your video's
like them greath work
Thanks. Much appreciated. Feel free to share them so we can grow the channel!
Thanks for watching!
I guess that explains my missing danio
Yep!
I always have better luck pulling the male rather than the female. Maybe the female was trying to protect her fry from the male by eating them. I always leave the female with the fry between 1 and 2 weeks after they become free swimming. I raise both central Amadeo an and African cichlids that way.
Good Advice. Thanks!
so my electric blue acara is young now (2") but you're saying it could eat some of the fishes in my community tank? Surely not blood parrot but how about red tailed shark, angelicus loaches and dwarf gourami could all be contenders? for now everything looks just peachy..
The larger fish you mentioned should be ok. My rummy nose tetras were dinner however!
Give them first bite food and use de wormer once a week till they get to about a month old
hi if you haven't found the solution I would advice you ask Mbuna Marcus.
he is a cichlid guru.
i grew the babies to a decent size half my thumb and put them in with the mother father and some other fishes not to big and i just caught the father eat one of them cant believe it they are big and he was choking on the baby idk what to do now i have too many
I'd have removed the male as well, raise the babies by themselves. People have been getting fry from EBA breedings, but I am wondering how healthy the offspring are. Perhaps its like EBJD where you can't breed two EBJD together and you need to breed them to a normal one, then breed back to an EBJD or breed the normal looking het. EB's together.
The EBA is a relatively new mutation on the market so there's not a lot to go on in terms of care.
I will say this, I do have one EBA in my 75 with the rest of my cichlids. Its also a high tech planted tank, everything grows fine (I just have some algae issues due too some issues with the setup and equipment of the tank though that I'll be battling forever or at least until I move everything into a different tank and start fresh, but the fish don't bug the plants).
They are aggressive for the size, and more outgoing than other fish from what I've seen. Still a nice fish though, not sure what their max size is since the exact species that the EBA comes from is not 100% known, and even if it was it could be like the EBJD in that EBJD will generally stay smaller than regular JD's and act differently as well.
Interesting ... These fry seem viable and look strong in the free swimming stage for about a week, then slowly disappear.
how do you keep them from eating the plants, i have a 155 with to golden sevrums, an angelfish, 2 geophages , and 4-5 little corey cats, i had a few silver dollars but got rid of them hoping that would solve the plant eating but it didnt, any tips on certain plants or do they need to be a certain size to last, i read maybe larger swords
Get the mbuna out!!
I would feed live brine and live micro foods
I knew it! I am missing 3 rummy
They’ll all be gone soon.:(
I have a pair in my tank they are matting. I have Oscar too in my tank plz tell me how do I maintain them well
What about larger tetras like bleeding heart tetras
They would be great!
Electric Blue Dempseys and Acaras are not "real" mother nature fish. Same with Flower Horns and Blood Parrot Cichlids. They are just plain hard to breed. Possibly because mother nature didn't give the parents or the fry instincts. Man did. With the cichlids I bred, I always removed the parents as soon as the fry started leaving the nest. The females often times guard the nest a little closer and spit the babies back into the nest. When she can't keep up anymore. Tehn I'd remove the parents. The only food gave the fry was ground up flakes like good ol tetramin. I would stir up gravel away from the fry because they seem to eat the gunk that gets stirred up. This has worked for Convicts, jewel cichlids, port acaras, firemouths, jack dempseys and a dull colored cichlid called a "Chanchito". I think green terrors would work this way too because they are closely related to Port Acaras.
It could be because the electric blue acaras are man made, you could try raising your water to 86 degrees
I mean, they ate the little guys because they formed a breeding pair in a little tank.
Try feeding them something higher in protein like BBS or Rotifers And turn off the main hang on filters and buy a sponge filter
Thanks Taylor -- starting with PE Mysis today.
Hello,
I had the same problem with my electric blue acaras: after spawning the male did chase away the female nearly to death, even neglecting the eggs, just to chase away the female.the result was the eggs been eaten away by other fish.
on the second spawn, i just did take away the eggs (on a small stone) and raised them exacly like the angelfish eggs.
everything went perfect, they are easy to raise.
just one thought: is the beaviour of normal blue acaras the same?
I thought I just had a bad temper male, but after your story, I see that yours also had that female chasing temper....
now The female is dead,( too beaten after the chase) but I have about 50 adolecents that will spawn soon, I am curious to see if the caracter will pass on , or if I can find some good husbands...
Warm regards, and thanks for sharing your video
Pat
Thanks Patrick -- I decided that's what I needed to do. Moved them to their own 29 -- and of course they stopped breeding! I'm giving them a rest and we'll try again soon!
An advice for what it's Worth... You mention you'll try remove the fry to save it next time but you should consider leaving them in the water and environment they're born in for them to grow and instead remove the parents... Also use so fine mosquito non metalic mesh for filter intake to prevent the brood to disapear being sucked up... Thank for the video (I must admit I laughed a lot when I saw the "before" and "after" your rummynoses and plant. Who again advised you to mix them both ? But the acaras grew nice...
+Alan Alain Hi Alan -- Ha Ha. Thanks. I took my own stupid advice. The acaras were small when I put them in there -- and well... you know. That's why I put the video out there. Live and learn. :)
I have 3 blue acaras in a 225 gallon aquarium and they just had a brood of maybe 300 fry. the tank mates are monster pleco's and a Fire Eel that is 34 inches long. mom and dad care for the babies non-stop but they have been vanishing slowly also. not sure that my case is filter suck up because I have overflow boxes and the babies are not ever close to the wear. I think they pleco's are getting them, the Eel don't care she only likes night crawlers.
Breed them in bare bottom tank. Feed the fries microworms.
why pull they fry and not the adults seems easy and safer for the fry start them breeding in a barebottom tank siwth slate to hatch then pull the adults
what about cories
They would be find with these guys -- As long as the copies are large enough.
Get congo tetra as a tankmate
separate the fry from parents and feed them dried egg yoke and shave off almost powder
I watched this vid to late. I bought an electric blue acara, and it was horrid. Any type of pelagic fish got beaten up to the point they died. EVEN MY FAVORITE PUFFER!!!! I got so mad I put him with the piranha and they are living peacfully. My advice is dont fall in love with the beauty of this fish and dont trust any cichlid.
That's what you get for mixing fish that don't belong together
Blood worms the fry love blood worms
fincasters I've had similar results with my German Blue Rams where the parents would eat the eggs/fry. After several unsuccessful results, I began to remove the eggs and put them into a large jar, which the idea is from ruclips.net/video/p_nnF-bcE7c/видео.html. I ordered some sponge filter from the vendor when I saw this awesome rearing technique but didn't use the bottom jar sponge filter because my fry were getting stuck in the crevices. Instead, I put on a small tube pre-filter sponge at the end of the tube and suspended it in the jar. No more dead fry being caught in the crevices. You can see in one of my videos where I have the jar in a 10 gallon tank with an older batch of fry growing up. This way, when I feed my smaller fry baby brine shrimp, any that don't get eaten will be sucked up into the tube filter and out into the water column. At that point, the older fry will have their opportunity to clean up any uneaten baby brine shrimp. I also keep a mystery snail in the jar to eat up any babies that do eventually die, which allows me to not have to maintain dead fry from rotting and molding. Video of my implementation from the video above: ruclips.net/video/IqN0rZh_ozA/видео.html
Take the parents out leave the fry feed the fry happy guy.
After a week tak both parents out and feed the fry spiralina flakes and mysys shrimp. They will grow quickly if you have them in a decent size tank, Acara aren't great parents like convicts and honduran red point cichlids
Thanks Windy. Now I can't get the pair to breed again. Sheesh.
Completely agree, the acaras defend their young well but do end up eating them. I've had good luck though feeding my fry crushed boiled egg yolk as they recognized it quickly after they finished eating their yolk sacks from when they hatched. Also my Acara fry like to dig themselves under the gravel and sometimes get trapped under it so a tank with no gravel might be something worth trying.
+Windy Page Thanks for the info!
+Thomas Smith I need some advice my neon blue acara laid eggs and now I have wigglers what be the best way to take them out and put them in a different tank
I bet they can't eat congo tetras
Will blue acaras eat red eye tetras and zebra danios too?
Please reply
I’m afraid so. 😕🐟
Even red eye tetras?
They grow to about 3 inches in size.. is a blue acara's mouth bigger than 3 inch?
I am talking about keeping a single blue acara, not multiples.
Yay, irresponsibility!
When they breed again change your filter to a sponge filter they are probably being sucked into the filter
Hi Charlie -- I agree -- I witnessed some of that -- so I have changed the filter situation around in their new 29 gallon aquarium. Now of course, they have decided to stop breeding! Doing lots of water inches and feeding heavily. Any other advice?
When i do water changes i use cooler water and have the heaters set at a warmer temp the change usually will bring on breeding
Mine ate my two bamboo shrimps lol
what i have platys with them and they do nothing to them :o
u shuld have 64 gallon tank but when the smallone gett like 1-2 cm u have to take small fish to another aquarium some frey go in aquarium pump!!! feed fish big krill and small fish will eat it to look here www.oceannutrition.com/post/krill/
Feed 3 to 5 times a day
You lost your tetras? I think this falls into the "duh" category.
You need BRINESHRIMP ONLY PROTEIN
Cleaner tanks will help
Dont let the adults eat em! Imagine that.
Any fish not the same size gets eaten. Even with Cichlids of Africa or South America. Convicts will beat up smaller species. Nature can be cruel.
funny
Ofcourse they do eat them I dont even have acara yet but with common sense you know they will eat smal fish 🤦♂️
The breeding maturity and fry made them more aggressive. They should have removed (one or the other). Rookie move, Mr. News Caster. 👎
Maybe you should take the male out.