i searched google didnt find much anything, any pointers to get these 2 to fall in love and do the wild thang ? lol thanks
picked up a pair of red peacocks, breeding easy?
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Female Peacocks reach sexual maturity at about ~2.5".
If you only have one pair, once they do spawn, the male may make a sole females life pretty miserable! He'll continue to chase her even though she's holding. If you can, pick up another 1 or 2 females. Maturnal mouthbrooders like the auloncara do best with about a 1 to 4 male female ratio. 1 to 3 can work as well in a community tank.
Typically, when I'm starting a new colony, I get 10 individuals and auction off the spare males.
Good luck with them!
If you only have one pair, once they do spawn, the male may make a sole females life pretty miserable! He'll continue to chase her even though she's holding. If you can, pick up another 1 or 2 females. Maturnal mouthbrooders like the auloncara do best with about a 1 to 4 male female ratio. 1 to 3 can work as well in a community tank.
Typically, when I'm starting a new colony, I get 10 individuals and auction off the spare males.
Good luck with them!
i belive that i have 2 females and one male now, the male is orange all over, and the females are just the grey color, all about 2 inches tip to tip so if they were going to be male they would have gotten a lil orange already right? does teh female have any blue on their cheeks at all?? i sure hope they dont all turn out to be males, but for 5 dollars a piece im not complaining hehe
The females should have no coloring, maybe a tiny bit on the fins but thats about it. If your "females" have blue on their cheeks i would suspect they are juvie males. Since your fish are still only 2" they might not have started changing into their male coloring yet. I have had babies get full color at <1" but have also seen adults that have just started getting a bit of color at 2 1/2". It really depends on the fish and what conditions it is being kept in. If the male isn't the dominate fish in the tank he may not show much color untill larger.
But i agree with it being best to keep peacocks in groups of 1m/ 3-4 females(I would say 2 females would be the min).
But i agree with it being best to keep peacocks in groups of 1m/ 3-4 females(I would say 2 females would be the min).
One thing I didn't mention previously, is that Peacocks may refuse to spawn if kept with very active or pugnatious fish. While I wouldn't call auloncara "peaceful," they will likely require a fairly calm tank to do the down-and-dirty, so to speak. Active fish can disturb them from spawning. HTH
Females are pretty indescript. Maybe the tiniest touch of blue, but more than that, they're likely subdom males. If your tank is 55g or bigger, 3 males will tolerate each other. Especially if they are with different species to distract etc. NOT another peacock species, per se.
How big is this tank?
How big is this tank?
By the looks of your tank collection, I'm surprised you have this many questions about peacocks! LOL!