I have 4 jewel cichlids and am trying to setup a breeder tank as I love these fish.
My problem is, where I live, they don't seem to have tank fills of jewels and seem very rare to ket 2 of the same colours.
Jewel 1
Bought this colour and always this colour. ( assuming male )
Jewel 2
Bought same time as jewel 1 (guessing this is a female as jewel one gets along with her very well and has been seen fanning in front of her constantly)
Jewel 3
Love the purplish tint ( trying to figure out sex)
Jewel 4
Again no idea what sex.
Jewel 1-2 and tankmates and 3-4 are in a separate tank as they are smaller and I don't want to wake up with dead fish not knowing the sexes. 3-4 get along great so assuming both are not males.
I want to ask the experts here how to sex them and most importantly will jewels of 4 different colours mate with each other ?
New to the hobby
55gal mixed cichlid
55gal oscar
10gal waiting for possible fry
My problem is, where I live, they don't seem to have tank fills of jewels and seem very rare to ket 2 of the same colours.
Jewel 1
Bought this colour and always this colour. ( assuming male )
Jewel 2
Bought same time as jewel 1 (guessing this is a female as jewel one gets along with her very well and has been seen fanning in front of her constantly)
Jewel 3
Love the purplish tint ( trying to figure out sex)
Jewel 4
Again no idea what sex.
Jewel 1-2 and tankmates and 3-4 are in a separate tank as they are smaller and I don't want to wake up with dead fish not knowing the sexes. 3-4 get along great so assuming both are not males.
I want to ask the experts here how to sex them and most importantly will jewels of 4 different colours mate with each other ?
New to the hobby
55gal mixed cichlid
55gal oscar
10gal waiting for possible fry