I bought a couple Jacks about 4 months ago from 2 different fish stores. I did not have the intent to bread but got a male and female. I did my research on these fish and figured even if I get a male and female the chances are low. Well within a month the had my 55gl floor covered. I did not have another tank at the time and we lost them all in a couple of days. I have other Cichlids in the 55 as well. I have since set up a 50 corner tank for the Jacks. They have since had babies again and are now about 3 weeks old. I have had to doors research since now I have babies. The mother and father are great parents but the will eventually eat the offspring when they get big enough. So I set up a 20 long for all the babies. I have about 200 in the 20 with still 100-150 in the 50. I have red lava rock in the tanks so it is almost impossible to get the babies out they just go under the rocks. My question to this long post is. Is there any way to tell when she is getting close to pop or even full? So I can move here to the 20 before she has them.
Any help would be much apricated.
In case anyone would like to know. Jacks color comes from their environment. Dark colors they will be dark light colors they will be light. So fir my corner tank I painted the back 2 walls a sky-blue. I have red lava rocks for the floor and larg lava rock for the coves to hide in as well as some full green plants with white flowers ( all fake plants the Jack's will uproot or eat any live plants). This makes the Jack's a black fish with blue, yellow, and gold colors just a gorgaus color in the fish. When they where in my 55 it is done in a natural setting so it's all dark except for the live
plants, they where black and brown all the time. So if u want ur Jacks to be full of color use light colors and lots of different ones to bring it out in the Jack.
Any help would be much apricated.
In case anyone would like to know. Jacks color comes from their environment. Dark colors they will be dark light colors they will be light. So fir my corner tank I painted the back 2 walls a sky-blue. I have red lava rocks for the floor and larg lava rock for the coves to hide in as well as some full green plants with white flowers ( all fake plants the Jack's will uproot or eat any live plants). This makes the Jack's a black fish with blue, yellow, and gold colors just a gorgaus color in the fish. When they where in my 55 it is done in a natural setting so it's all dark except for the live
plants, they where black and brown all the time. So if u want ur Jacks to be full of color use light colors and lots of different ones to bring it out in the Jack.
