Archocentrus (Cryptoheros) Sajica

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Can you guy's give me some info on Archocentrus (Cryptoheros) Sajica?? I am wanting to get a male and a female for one of my tanks and have a species-only tank of them. I am wanting to know what stuff they need to breed, what te pH needs to be, if they will eat there eggs or if they won't. So can i get some info? Here is a website with them. http://www.peifc.com/Our_fish/Sajica/Sajica.html
 

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Pure

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OK Silver get a pencil. I'm going to give you the secret to breeding any fish you may ever fancy. With this you can become an expert breeder I guarantee it. Now pay attention and wright this down cus I am only going to post this once. Are you ready? Are you excited yet?


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Breeding: The T-Bar cichlid is a prolific cave breeder. Pairs are not loyal, so keep an eye on them as aggressiveness will build with age. Excellent parents.

That was the best tid bit of advice I found. I searched "breeding Cryptoheros Sajica"

Searching T-Bar Cichlid gave more results. http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_Archocentrus_sajica.php

Breeding: The male pursues the female by circling her. Female will return the favor by flapping her tail at the male’s lateral line. She will rub her body close to her nuchal hump. This courtship can take few days to 2 weeks. If the female is not ready to breed, the male will bully her to submission. At this time, may want to remove one of them to give the female a chance to recover. If do not act soon, can cause the female’s life due to stress. Once the pair has established a bond, they will select a cave (can use flowerpot or rocks to create a cave). Male and female will shake their head as they dig and clean a spot for spawning. They do take turn chasing off their tankmates from their spawning site. At this point, male and female has already developed much darker colors. Their T-bars are more pronounced. Their eggs are laid on vertical surface. The eggs hatch after 2-3 days they have been laid. It will take 5-7 days for the wrigglers to become free swimmers. Parents will move them to a pit of gravel. Feed parents flakes who will spit the crumbled flakes to the fry. Parents will continue to care for the young until they reach ¼”.


Search better! ;)
 

wayne

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Someone local to me kept a pair and bred thousands..... I have had a pair. Similarto convicts, a bit less aggressive, but definitely not a community fish.
 

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Sorry to hear of your troubles, but the point is that if you can't take the responsibity to do the research yourself then there is a good chance that you won't want to take the responsibility to take care of the fish either. There is nothing in the world wrong with asking questions, but many people will be much more willing to help out when it shows that you've done a fair amount of research first.
 

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I really don't care how much or how little research you do on your own as its not going to effect me either way. Just don't expect everyone else to do your work for you. Your research for your fish is going to help you, not me or anyone else on the board.
 

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I'm not trying to get you guy's to do my research, i am just wondering if any of you know anything about this fish. *thumbsups

I was asaking you guy's if you knew casue i thought mabey you knew anything cause more people seem to have cichlids in there tanks, so i ask that cause mabey some of you have had this fish.

I won't get mad at anyone who tells me this, but give me a list of what i aam doing wrong and i will work on it to make me better*PEACE!*
 

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silver dollars said:
I won't get mad at anyone who tells me this, but give me a list of what i aam doing wrong and i will work on it to make me better*PEACE!*
1. Overstocking your first tank, how do we know it won't happen again.
2. Not enough research on the first fish you got, i'm guessing since you have a bad mix of species in a tank currently.

2 is all i could come up with. In your defense you are willing to ask questions and learn, and hopefully listen...so thumbs up for that. Even if you don't plan on keeping the fish, like me i love to learn about all sorts of different cichlids...i know i've done it many times in the past. I find these types of posts good for the board, they will sometimes peak an intrest of someone who may not know about these fish or may have forgotten a little about them, causes them to go research. :)