Breeding Peacocks

[Zimm44]

Anyone have experience with separating holding females into smal hanging
breeder cages. I used to do this with livebearers but am concerned that placing
her in this sort of environment will make her spit her eggs. She is holding the
eggs of a beautiful yellow and blue peacock. I'd love to see some survive.

Zimm

[Zimm44]

As preparation for breeding I bought a some coral for the tank. Much of it is
full of little cracks and crevices and in a 90 gallon (busy) malawi tank I have
two large synodontis cats, a big black shark, a couple of blue botias, and two
extraordinarily viper-like compressiceps as well as a few zebras and peacocks.
Now, obviously I would have a much higher survival rate if I separated her out
of the ttank but I can't right now without moving three failry large Frontosas
back into the tank. While that would be ok I'd rather leave them out as they
are quite content as the sole inhabitants of a 45 gallon tank. Anyway, will the
babies be able to withstand this environment? I hate putting fish into those
little breeders as i think it's cruel.

Zimm

[The Madd Hatter]

Not a chance... I have a similar situation in my 100 Gallon, with a couple
of synodontis cats, asian sun cats, a variety of pseudotrpheus, Hap Ahlis,
an eye biter, and a trio of lawanda peacocks. The peacocks have spawned a
couple of times and so have some of the others. Anything that releases in to
the tankgets eaten.. The cats and the eye biter are al very efficient
predators. Though the breeder nets are not ideal, if you time it right, you
can simply catch the female and strip her into the netm and release her..
Then again, what are you going to do with the fry if you don't have another
tank?

"Zimm44" > wrote in message
...
> As preparation for breeding I bought a some coral for the tank. Much of it
is
> full of little cracks and crevices and in a 90 gallon (busy) malawi tank I
have
> two large synodontis cats, a big black shark, a couple of blue botias, and
two
> extraordinarily viper-like compressiceps as well as a few zebras and
peacocks.
> Now, obviously I would have a much higher survival rate if I separated her
out
> of the ttank but I can't right now without moving three failry large
Frontosas
> back into the tank. While that would be ok I'd rather leave them out as
they
> are quite content as the sole inhabitants of a 45 gallon tank. Anyway,
will the
> babies be able to withstand this environment? I hate putting fish into
those
> little breeders as i think it's cruel.
>
> Zimm

[RedForeman ©®]

you'll never get survivors with the mix of scavengers you have, your SynCats
and your shark, will be smiling as soon as her mouth opens.... sorry....
"Zimm44" > wrote in message
...
> As preparation for breeding I bought a some coral for the tank. Much of it
is
> full of little cracks and crevices and in a 90 gallon (busy) malawi tank I
have
> two large synodontis cats, a big black shark, a couple of blue botias, and
two
> extraordinarily viper-like compressiceps as well as a few zebras and
peacocks.
> Now, obviously I would have a much higher survival rate if I separated her
out
> of the ttank but I can't right now without moving three failry large
Frontosas
> back into the tank. While that would be ok I'd rather leave them out as
they
> are quite content as the sole inhabitants of a 45 gallon tank. Anyway,
will the
> babies be able to withstand this environment? I hate putting fish into
those
> little breeders as i think it's cruel.
>
> Zimm