Though On Breeding

[chrismr]

OK, I am not the most experienced fish keeper around, by a mile, and have only just recently started breeding cichlids.

I was just wondering though, most cichlids require generally specific perameters for bredding, right?

I have seen many people complaining about spawn after spawn after spawn, until the are overcrowded, and I was just thinking, would it not help to lower the temparature by a couple of degrees to lower the chance of re-spawning?

Obviously, this would not work if the lower temperature was not acceptable for the fish...

Could this conceivably work? Would a slightly lower temperature kill the fry?

 

[Seb R]

Don't think you should be looking at it like that, if you want to loose some fry, but not overly stress or kill the parents add a few natural predators. That way only the toughest survive and you dont kill the parents either.

Anyway what are you trying to breed?

 

[VENOM]

some speicies dont need an exact condition. Convicts and texas cichlids dont, managuenses and dempseys sorta, but discus need it.

 

[chrismr]

Don't think you should be looking at it like that, if you want to loose some fry, but not overly stress or kill the parents add a few natural predators. That way only the toughest survive and you dont kill the parents either.

Anyway what are you trying to breed?

No, it is just a thought I had. I have no excess of fry at the moment, as all that is currently spawning is our kribs in a community tank. The survival rate it surprisingly high thus far!

I was only wondering about it as I see lots of people complaining about how their fish keep breeding and breeding until there is no room left.

I am hoping that my curviceps in one of my other tanks will be spawning soon too though