Any tips for breeding Jewels?

[Devon]

I got some jewels but they dont seem to want to breeding.Any tips you can tell me on helping them get into that mood if you no what i mean.

There in a 3ft,lots of caves.4 fish.males and females.

feeding them heaps on novo cichlid sticks and tubifex worms.

any help would be great from anyone.

[Graeme Holden]

Well for a start they are being spoilt, I only fed mine plain flake food and trout crumble, however I think the secret might be dog roll !!! I certainly had no trouble breeding them in fact I had trouble stopping them breeding. I only used a 2 foot tank, in one tank it was fully planted but when they bred they destroyed all the plant, in another one there was only stones and a ceramic log, they liked the log and generally laid eggs in there rather than elsewhere. the best dog roll was one with rice and garlic, did not seem to cloud the water too much, however if you are feeding meat or things like dog roll you will have to have good filtration and clean the filters often, I was doing about 1/3 water change a fortnight. Hope this helps, Graeme

[HummingBird]

btw Graeme the Jewels he's talking about are your ones I finally convinced him to join the forums.

[monaro1]

build them a cave with a smooth rock laying flat just outside,this will make most of mine get the job done

[Devon]

So just leave them to do it them self?There you cichlids ,hows the minnows?

[Graeme Holden]

great the zebras have spawned but they are not too well at present, must be the water, so going to have another go later, the minnows are just being minnows at present, love them. tks Graeme

[Devon]

Good stuff.The jewels have some great colours on them.So do i just keep feeding them and them do it?or do i need to add something so the feel more comfortable laying.If ive got broken up pots to make caves and stuff were would they most likely lay.i carnt see them unless they come out so there could already be a bunch of eggs.does there behaviour change when they start to breed.

Thanxs heaps.

[Graeme Holden]

put the reply in the new topic, sorry, been on the wine biscuits hehehehehe