Joined
·
2 Posts
Hey guys! This is my first post here, and about half a year ago I discovered and fell in love with African Cichlids! This made me want to expand the hobby to breeding them as well. I currently have a 40 breeder that has been fully cycled, and has perfect water parameters that match my main show tank. In this tank I have one gorgeous matured male dragon blood peacock of about 5 inches, three matured female dragon blood peacocks around 3 inches each, and one female albino dragon peacock around 2.5-3 inches. I have had them in that tank by themselves for about two month's now, but none of them are holding. I'm just trying to figure out if there is anything that I am doing wrong or is there is something more I can do to encourage the process? Just a background, the tank gets a 40-50% water change every week, the cichlids are fed brine shrimp, cichlid pellets and and algae wafers every other day. They are all in good health by appearance and by the way theyre behaving. The male looks like we wants to mate and has established areas in the tank, but none of the females seem to want to mate. There are lots of caves and hiding spots in the tank as well. The previous owner of the mating group said the females have held successfully before and when I bought them one was already holding but lost the eggs during transfer. Thanks in advance for any advice!!
