yellow Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 i recently bred my jaguars and decided soon after to get rid of the female.they had literally only bred the night before i gave her away and was fanning about 1000 eggs at the time.i had a female festae in the tank seperated by a divider.this female is forever laying eggs and i knew she was keen to raise fry so i took the jaguar females eggs and put them in with the female festae.she took to them straight away and has adopted her breeding colouration and hatched them this afternoon.she has currently moved them and is guarding them as if they were her own.i was just curious to see if anyone has seen this kind of behaviour before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electricyellowz Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Could you post up some pictures of this?? I have heard of discus doing this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattnshez Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 1000 eggs!!! sounds like you will have your hands full soon jas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petshopdude Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 nice work man i never heard of it but dogs to it for other cups at zoo's so i don't see why it wouldn't bpretty damm cool mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petshopdude Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 mean cubs not cups, i should finsih this beer and go to bed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m0oks Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Sound interesteing.Would love to see pics aswell. Do you reakon when the fry get bigger she will notice that its not her fry and eat them all? Sorry i don't know what the fry festae and jaguar look like when they are young fry. What size do you usually take the fry out? Good luck i hope they do well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Wow, that's quite a bit different! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellow Posted August 18, 2007 Author Share Posted August 18, 2007 Could you post up some pictures of this?? i cant the tank shes in cracked recently and when i patched it i left a gap which filled with water which in turn caused the glass to fog. Do you reakon when the fry get bigger she will notice that its not her fry and eat them all? Sorry i don't know what the fry festae and jaguar look like when they are young fry. to be honest i think she knows and doesnt care shes always been keen to raise fry now that she has her chance i dont think shes concerned with what they are.it takes at least six weeks for you to be able to tell the difference between juvenile jaguars and juvenile festae What size do you usually take the fry out? you can take them out at any stage really its more a personal preference then a set rule.i wont be removing these ones im not really interested in raising fry at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SA fishy 07 Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 cool nice work man i never heard of it but dogs to it for other cups at zoo's so i don't see why it wouldn't bpretty damm cool mate Yeah i have seen pics of a tiger cub raised with a pig as its surrogate mother Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citypainter Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Fishguts gave us that DVD Jason. Where Nicaraguan cichlids were babysitting eachothers eggs You should have a copy. Not quite the same but its happening in the wild Great to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 That was where a male nic helped the female dovii - not exactly like this surrogate mother thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dobbin4 Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 Heard of it before but looks like a big batch of Jags mate. I agree she will just keep on rasing the fry. Some girls just love it !!! Ps ,,,, Is she ugly Jason??/ most fastae are pretty I think !!! Cheers John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topogigio Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 i recently bred my jaguars and decided soon after to get rid of the female.they had literally only bred the night before i gave her away and was fanning about 1000 eggs at the time.i had a female festae in the tank seperated by a divider.this female is forever laying eggs and i knew she was keen to raise fry so i took the jaguar females eggs and put them in with the female festae.she took to them straight away and has adopted her breeding colouration and hatched them this afternoon.she has currently moved them and is guarding them as if they were her own.i was just curious to see if anyone has seen this kind of behaviour before. that is a very interesting observation... please keep us updated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D6C1 Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Any chance of pics Jason? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellow Posted August 31, 2007 Author Share Posted August 31, 2007 i cant get pics at the moment as ive got a couple of tanks sitting infront of the tank and i cant get in there to take pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellow Posted September 1, 2007 Author Share Posted September 1, 2007 i took some today go here http://www.aceforums.com.au/index.php?show...mp;#entry212725 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chameleon Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 Man they are cool pics, one question how big does a female festae have to be to go that colour? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellow Posted September 5, 2007 Author Share Posted September 5, 2007 the smallest ive had was four inches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozarowana Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 Geo's are known to have fry in their mouths from another species of geo kept in the same tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chameleon Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 thanks yellow ,i have 8 festae heres two pics of the same fish what do you think it is male or female? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellow Posted September 6, 2007 Author Share Posted September 6, 2007 id lean towards it being a female due to it starting to develop that black/blue dorsal fin but its still a little young to be 100% certain.i forgot to mention yesterday that the colouration that my female is currently showing is her breeding colouration she normally looks like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chameleon Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 Thanks yellow, by the way thats one very nice festae, im curious did your festae look like mine when it was younger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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