hernan - 2012-11-08 Hi everyone I have a 4 inch jaguar and a 7 inch Oscar both get along ok but today I came home from work to find half the tank's water was gone and leaking a lot because of a crack in the glass.. Pulled both fish out of the tank and put them in sepatate buckets but I unfortunately don't have a spare tank. My enquiry about this whole story is does anyone know how long will the fish survive under such circumstances? How long without oxigen and heating? It's summer here temperature in general is 24 to 28 degrees, thank you soo much whoever can help with a lil advise would be muchly appreciated. I also can't get an emergency tank until about 12 hours.. :/
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Jeremy Roche - 2012-11-09 Fish are shipped in mush worse conditions.. Try adding some airstones to the tank. Also some pet shops will house your fish temporary while you get the tank ready. Anyway to patch the crack while you wait to set up the new tank?
SHAWNIE THOMPSON - 2012-07-26 My jaguar cichlid is lying at the bottom of the tank. Is it breeding or is it sick? ? I can't tell. . . Help me please! ! !
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Jeremy Roche - 2012-07-27 First thing to do is check you water conditions. If you don't have a test kit, a local pet shop will normally test it. How is the fish breathing?
Fishboi69 - 2013-01-15 He's relaxing :)
Clarice Brough - 2013-01-15 If he's eating and you don't see anything on him to indicate an illness, he's probably just resting.
Melissa Hill - 2011-01-22 I have a 12" Male Jaguar Cichlid - he shares my 125 gallon tank with 3 senegal bichirs, an ornate bichir, a 14" common pleco, as well as a RT/TSN catfish. He is best buddies with my senegals, and I always see the bichirs piled up on him when he's sitting in his clay pot. I can add ANY fish into this tank - even a guppy, and he will hide from it. He's a very timid fish, and I wouldn't trade him for the world!
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greg - 2011-03-21 Get it a male things will change trust me great thing to see.
raghu - 2011-08-09 Dear Mellisa, Since when do you have your jaguar. Trust me he is shy or not showing up himself and once he shows himself I think you have change the jaguar or other fishes, because I have had jaguar and still have at home and bred them not once but five times. I have three males and one female. I have seen their behaviour and their aggressiveness towards me and other tank mates. It has gods gift hooligan behaviour or a bully.
Rich - 2012-07-02 I find it funny that everyone states 2 adults to 180 gallons. I had 4 jags in a 55 for more then 3 years and also had thousands of babies in that time. The 4 got along well, but only 2 bred and the other 2 stayed kinda small at 6'. I ended up selling them to a breeder along with my Jacks and Oscars. Sold all the tanks and got into bearded dragons. Now boa's are part of my life along with my new 75 gallon set-up with 4 more jags. They are small at 3' and doing great since I got them a month and a half ago. They will go into a 150-180 or a 220. I havent decide yet. The later would be best and look way better.
Shilee Bean - 2012-05-17 I have two jags. A female and male and they recently layed eggs. I also have a convict cichlid and a tiger oscar. In any way that they could harm the eggs or the jags harm the other fish? They are in a 125 gallon tank.
tammy roberts - 2012-01-08 I would like to find out why my male jaguar sucks up big rocks, carries it around then spits it out? He does this all day long.
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Editor's Note - 2012-05-14 My fish do it all the time they are making it clean or trying to dig out there area. Or nest if it is a female.
Jeremy Roche - 2012-05-14 A lot of cichlids do this. Some do this to prepare for breeding, others just seem to like to re-arrange.
miguel r. - 2011-07-13 I have 2 jaguar cichlides and they keep having babies. They always end up eating them what do I do?????
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Charlie Roche - 2011-07-13 The Jaguar is a carnivore and if it moves and they can get it in their mouth, they will eat it. You see babies and they see food. You need a grow tank - a baby tank - a small tank that you can put the baby fry into untill they are large enough to be in a regular community tank. You can try many hiding spots in the existing tank and plants but mom and dad will find the fry. You just have to net the fry up and put them in a separate tank. You will also need to get food for the babies. But congratulations on the off spring.
Rondey - 2011-08-09 They are eating the fry because they are hungry. Feed your fish more. Normally the parents are very protective of their babies.
steve Krukowski - 2011-12-28 I have just removed around 400-500 fry from my 850 ltr cichlid tank at about 3 days old they have been moved to a 60 ltr nursery tank. Parents will eventually eat the young. Best way to remove fry is not by net as this can damage spine of fry and the removal from water to air can stress and kill the fish, I use a syphon hose and add the water they were hatched in to fill the nursery tank and find I have about a 70-80% survival rate doing it this way.
Cory - 2011-08-20 I love my Jags. I have 2 Jags and 2 JD's housed in a 150 gallon tank. I bought them all together around 1 and a half in. each. Now the Jags are 6-7 in. and the JD's 4. They have gotten along relatively well, although the male Jag rules the tank. As they grow more, will this be a large enough setup for these 4 fish?
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Cory - 2011-08-24 If you read closer, it said 180 gallon for two that you are going to breed. Above the breeding section of article it said 50 gallons required for 1 Jag.
fish_are_awesome - 2011-10-15 I think 125 gallons would be fine. Besides it's not worth it to upgrade from a 125 to a 160. Good luck with your fish.
Cory - 2011-08-24 I also was wondering, when I got my fish, Brutus (my male Jag) tail fin was kinda shredded. I thought it would eventually start growing back to normal but has yet to do so. Will it ever grow back or will it be like that for his life span? He is roughly 7 inches right now and I got him at about an inch.
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Charlie Roche - 2011-08-24 I have always been under the impression that it would grow back and I don't exactly understand why it hasn't. It has definitely grown so why the fin isn't back to normal - beats me. Is the tail sheredding against something in the tank. In other words, it is growing nback but a rock or something is shredding it again. Could that be?
Cory - 2011-08-24 Unless he is doing it at night when lighs are out. I've never seen him doing anything that would damage his tail like that. Maybe once he's full grown it will begin to fill in.
The Jaguar Cichlid is known for becoming more and more beautiful as it ages!
Hi everyone I have a 4 inch jaguar and a 7 inch Oscar both get along ok but today I came home from work to find half the tank's water was gone and leaking a lot because of a crack in the glass.. Pulled both fish out of the tank and put them in sepatate buckets but I unfortunately don't have a spare tank. My enquiry about this whole story is does anyone know how long will the fish survive under such circumstances? How long without oxigen and heating? It's summer here temperature in general is 24 to 28 degrees, thank you soo much whoever can help with a lil advise would be muchly appreciated. I also can't get an emergency tank until about 12 hours.. :/
Fish are shipped in mush worse conditions.. Try adding some airstones to the tank. Also some pet shops will house your fish temporary while you get the tank ready. Anyway to patch the crack while you wait to set up the new tank?
Can I keep 1 jaguar cichlid a convict cichlid and a green terror in a 30 gallon till I get a bigger tank
It will be fine while they are small. You will need to upgrade as they grow.
I also have a 55 gallon with a very aggressive jack dempsey and I have a pike cichlid
My jaguar cichlid is lying at the bottom of the tank. Is it breeding or is it sick? ? I can't tell. . . Help me please! ! !
First thing to do is check you water conditions. If you don't have a test kit, a local pet shop will normally test it. How is the fish breathing?
He's relaxing :)
If he's eating and you don't see anything on him to indicate an illness, he's probably just resting.
I have a 12" Male Jaguar Cichlid - he shares my 125 gallon tank with 3 senegal bichirs, an ornate bichir, a 14" common pleco, as well as a RT/TSN catfish. He is best buddies with my senegals, and I always see the bichirs piled up on him when he's sitting in his clay pot. I can add ANY fish into this tank - even a guppy, and he will hide from it. He's a very timid fish, and I wouldn't trade him for the world!
Get it a male things will change trust me great thing to see.
Dear Mellisa, Since when do you have your jaguar. Trust me he is shy or not showing up himself and once he shows himself I think you have change the jaguar or other fishes, because I have had jaguar and still have at home and bred them not once but five times. I have three males and one female. I have seen their behaviour and their aggressiveness towards me and other tank mates. It has gods gift hooligan behaviour or a bully.
I find it funny that everyone states 2 adults to 180 gallons. I had 4 jags in a 55 for more then 3 years and also had thousands of babies in that time. The 4 got along well, but only 2 bred and the other 2 stayed kinda small at 6'. I ended up selling them to a breeder along with my Jacks and Oscars. Sold all the tanks and got into bearded dragons. Now boa's are part of my life along with my new 75 gallon set-up with 4 more jags. They are small at 3' and doing great since I got them a month and a half ago. They will go into a 150-180 or a 220. I havent decide yet. The later would be best and look way better.
I have two jags. A female and male and they recently layed eggs. I also have a convict cichlid and a tiger oscar. In any way that they could harm the eggs or the jags harm the other fish? They are in a 125 gallon tank.
I would like to find out why my male jaguar sucks up big rocks, carries it around then spits it out? He does this all day long.
My fish do it all the time they are making it clean or trying to dig out there area. Or nest if it is a female.
A lot of cichlids do this. Some do this to prepare for breeding, others just seem to like to re-arrange.
I have 2 jaguar cichlides and they keep having babies. They always end up eating them what do I do?????
The Jaguar is a carnivore and if it moves and they can get it in their mouth, they will eat it. You see babies and they see food. You need a grow tank - a baby tank - a small tank that you can put the baby fry into untill they are large enough to be in a regular community tank. You can try many hiding spots in the existing tank and plants but mom and dad will find the fry. You just have to net the fry up and put them in a separate tank. You will also need to get food for the babies. But congratulations on the off spring.
They are eating the fry because they are hungry. Feed your fish more. Normally the parents are very protective of their babies.
I have just removed around 400-500 fry from my 850 ltr cichlid tank at about 3 days old they have been moved to a 60 ltr nursery tank. Parents will eventually eat the young. Best way to remove fry is not by net as this can damage spine of fry and the removal from water to air can stress and kill the fish, I use a syphon hose and add the water they were hatched in to fill the nursery tank and find I have about a 70-80% survival rate doing it this way.
I love my Jags. I have 2 Jags and 2 JD's housed in a 150 gallon tank. I bought them all together around 1 and a half in. each. Now the Jags are 6-7 in. and the JD's 4. They have gotten along relatively well, although the male Jag rules the tank. As they grow more, will this be a large enough setup for these 4 fish?
If you read closer, it said 180 gallon for two that you are going to breed. Above the breeding section of article it said 50 gallons required for 1 Jag.
I think 125 gallons would be fine. Besides it's not worth it to upgrade from a 125 to a 160. Good luck with your fish.
I also was wondering, when I got my fish, Brutus (my male Jag) tail fin was kinda shredded. I thought it would eventually start growing back to normal but has yet to do so. Will it ever grow back or will it be like that for his life span? He is roughly 7 inches right now and I got him at about an inch.
I have always been under the impression that it would grow back and I don't exactly understand why it hasn't. It has definitely grown so why the fin isn't back to normal - beats me. Is the tail sheredding against something in the tank. In other words, it is growing nback but a rock or something is shredding it again. Could that be?
Unless he is doing it at night when lighs are out. I've never seen him doing anything that would damage his tail like that. Maybe once he's full grown it will begin to fill in.