@Jason99942 well someone needs to chill out. I didn't put them together with the purpose of them breeding, i didn't even have the slightest thought that it would happen. But, since yes parrots are unnatural hybrids, the male parrot was infertile and could not fertilize the fire mouth's eggs. I'm not sure if you checked the date but this video was almost exactly 2 years ago. I do not agree with hybrid species and i certainly do not breed them.
Awesome vid and set up buddy. Was wondering if any of you guys would have a butchers at my firemouths and try to identify male and female. I have 3. There no bother to anything else in the tank. Just themselves they chase each other, not fin nipping more of a territory/pecking order. Cheers
Please comment back! Im debating on a tankmate for my oscars. A firemouth, a convict, or a parrot fish. I am really interested in firemouths. Whats your opinion?
@slereosh firemouths in my opinion make fantastic tankmates for oscars. Firemouths arent over aggressive but they will stand up for themselves. remember, oscars arent aggressive fish...they are only aggressive feeders. they are like big teddy bears of the cichlid world. Most people think they are super aggressive but they arent, they are just highly predatory. if they cant eat it, they usually dont give it a problem. So yes any of those options would work but Firemouths are a great choice!
@BingX14 Ok thanks, haha i just bought a firemouth. But my oscars are around 6-8" Long, and my newly bought firemouth is only like a 1 1/2" juvenile. I have it in a little breeder that goes in the tank to protect it from the oscars, but i do not have any other tanks. What should i do? Im not willing to put it with the oscars until its at least twice its size. And it also acts wierd in the breeder, it sits in th corner, always moving his fins except for its tail fin, and it doesnt swim anywhere.?
its very stressed out in the little breeder and chances are that you wont be able to get it to eat while its in there either if its so stressed, but the other problem is if you let it go with oscars of that size they will eat the FM in no time. its easier when you buy the oscar and FM at the same time when they are both very young, so the oscar grows up with it and has less of a tendancy to want to eat it. sadly oscars of that size already will look upon pretty much all small fish as food
@slereosh youd have to somehow find a firemouth that is very close to adult size or else the juvenile firemouth you add with the oscars will be constantly hiding and be chased and or eaten lol. You could set up a grow out tank for the firemouth however. FMs and oscars make great tankmates when they are both at adult size. But if you have an 8" oscar and you put a firemouth under 3 inches it will most likely die from stress or be eaten.
@slereosh as long as you introduce a firemouth too big to be eaten by the oscars, you should be golden and everything should work. So id try to find or special order an adult FM or close to adult size OR set up a secondary grow out tank for the firemouth. sorry for the long responses! lol let me know what you think
I had 3 firemouths and 2 clown loaches in the same tank. All the firemouths would do was torture the loaches. Eventually they died from stress :-(. And then two of they firemouths had about 80 babies. they are so cute!!! The two parents would constantly attack the third firemouth. I have bought a new tank with stunning scenery and they are slowly growing up.
P.S. What do your feed your firemouth? I want mine to all have that much colour!
I am officially in love with your Firemouth. I've never seen a female so colorful. I thought only the males had elongated dorsal fins. Idk. I'll research a bit more. But, seeing a Firemouth that size is unusual. Unless on here. Hideous face on the Parrot, though. Never really did like that breed. Cool vid, nonetheless. ;)
@Thomas16112393 with strong filtration, Yes you could. Just make sure that the oscar is a small as possible when you get it, and that the firemouths are as large as possible when you get them, because the oscar will grow twice as fast as the firemouth's will. the average growth rate for a young, well fed oscar is 1 inch per month until it reaches about 7-8 inches. after that the growing slows down a bit
@SomeYTchannel well males grow a little bit faster than females, but id say for both males and females it takes around 1.5 - 2 full years for them to reach max length.
BingX14 is right. The oscars will eat nearly anything that is smaller than it and has a very fast growth rate unlike the firemouths. You should probably keep them in seperate tanks.
@KingCharlieCKCS about 2 years for them to grow to their maximum size. They grow to 4 inches pretty quickly then the next 2 inches happen much slower. a full grown male will max out at 6-6.5 inches and a female will at 5 inches
this is actually the standard adult size for a female. this firemouth is about 4-5 inches. males grow larger and have have an average adult size of 6 inches
sweet! they are really awesome fish, probably my favorite cichlid species, and ive kept a lot of different ones lol They grow to a very managable size (females 5" max & males 6-7" max) so they don't need a huge tank unless they are with large tankmates. They are gentile enough to be kept with smaller community fish such as lots of small tetras (except neons...too small), but yet they can hold their own just fine with a whole bunch of large american cichlid species
also, they are VERY hardy and will readily except all kinds of flake, pellet, frozen and live foods. A male and female will pair up and breed very easily and they are FANTASTIC parents (this is the only time when they get very aggressive, but they won't go around killing tankmates, they are just very territorial and chase away anything that comes close to the eggs/fry) So yeah, FM's are really cool cichlids and they look great. I'm Glad to hear that you're doing your research before buying!
yeah i'v got a standard 4foot tank and hav a platydoras, med-large pleco, 3 small GTs and 1 older male, few baby convicts from my breeding pair (in another tank) as live food but survived and hav grown a little and my 5 large clown loaches which are my pride and joy.
i'm willing to empty my whole tank except the loaches so i got a bit of research to do. my friend wants me to get a jaguar or flowerhorn but i'm really lovin the look of the FMs. but if so the tank might look a little empty. what other cichlids would u suggest with a breeding pair of FMs, 5 clown loaches and 2 catfish?
she's usually fine with all the other fish except at this time. 2 days after i put this video up, she laid her 2nd batch of eggs as i thought she would due to her behavior. Once again the parrot didnt do anything and the eggs weren't fertilized...but now shes back to her calm, peaceful self again. I am, however, going to mess around with the fish stock in this tank, and then get her a nice juvenile male so that they can breed after he reaches maturity. breeding FM's is really cool
Stop encouraging cross breeding.
You end up with mutts, that eventually over time lose the genetic advantage of pure strains.
Many people are doing this and selling the fish back to the pet stores, leading to confusion over what fish this is.
The Blood Parrot is another ridiculous cross breed [Midas cichlid and Read Head cichlid], that lead to the deformities you see here.
There is nothing natural at all about what you're doing, these fish would never even meet in the wild.
Jason99942 1 month ago
@Jason99942 well someone needs to chill out. I didn't put them together with the purpose of them breeding, i didn't even have the slightest thought that it would happen. But, since yes parrots are unnatural hybrids, the male parrot was infertile and could not fertilize the fire mouth's eggs. I'm not sure if you checked the date but this video was almost exactly 2 years ago. I do not agree with hybrid species and i certainly do not breed them.
BingX14 1 month ago
Awesome vid and set up buddy. Was wondering if any of you guys would have a butchers at my firemouths and try to identify male and female. I have 3. There no bother to anything else in the tank. Just themselves they chase each other, not fin nipping more of a territory/pecking order. Cheers
Cbiskuit 4 months ago
sick ass tank bro
blackjaxin 5 months ago
@blackjaxin haha thanks man
BingX14 5 months ago
Please comment back! Im debating on a tankmate for my oscars. A firemouth, a convict, or a parrot fish. I am really interested in firemouths. Whats your opinion?
slereosh 5 months ago
@slereosh firemouths in my opinion make fantastic tankmates for oscars. Firemouths arent over aggressive but they will stand up for themselves. remember, oscars arent aggressive fish...they are only aggressive feeders. they are like big teddy bears of the cichlid world. Most people think they are super aggressive but they arent, they are just highly predatory. if they cant eat it, they usually dont give it a problem. So yes any of those options would work but Firemouths are a great choice!
BingX14 5 months ago
@BingX14 Ok thanks, haha i just bought a firemouth. But my oscars are around 6-8" Long, and my newly bought firemouth is only like a 1 1/2" juvenile. I have it in a little breeder that goes in the tank to protect it from the oscars, but i do not have any other tanks. What should i do? Im not willing to put it with the oscars until its at least twice its size. And it also acts wierd in the breeder, it sits in th corner, always moving his fins except for its tail fin, and it doesnt swim anywhere.?
slereosh 5 months ago
its very stressed out in the little breeder and chances are that you wont be able to get it to eat while its in there either if its so stressed, but the other problem is if you let it go with oscars of that size they will eat the FM in no time. its easier when you buy the oscar and FM at the same time when they are both very young, so the oscar grows up with it and has less of a tendancy to want to eat it. sadly oscars of that size already will look upon pretty much all small fish as food
BingX14 5 months ago
@slereosh youd have to somehow find a firemouth that is very close to adult size or else the juvenile firemouth you add with the oscars will be constantly hiding and be chased and or eaten lol. You could set up a grow out tank for the firemouth however. FMs and oscars make great tankmates when they are both at adult size. But if you have an 8" oscar and you put a firemouth under 3 inches it will most likely die from stress or be eaten.
BingX14 5 months ago
@slereosh as long as you introduce a firemouth too big to be eaten by the oscars, you should be golden and everything should work. So id try to find or special order an adult FM or close to adult size OR set up a secondary grow out tank for the firemouth. sorry for the long responses! lol let me know what you think
BingX14 5 months ago
Nice Firemouth,
I had 3 firemouths and 2 clown loaches in the same tank. All the firemouths would do was torture the loaches. Eventually they died from stress :-(. And then two of they firemouths had about 80 babies. they are so cute!!! The two parents would constantly attack the third firemouth. I have bought a new tank with stunning scenery and they are slowly growing up.
P.S. What do your feed your firemouth? I want mine to all have that much colour!
Zoocalom565 5 months ago
Beautiful firemouth!!
drlove83 8 months ago
she looks big.how old and what size is she??
yomonstruo 1 year ago
@yomonstruo She's about 4.5 inches and in this video she was almost 2 years old
BingX14 1 year ago
looks more like courtship there
TokenPictures111 1 year ago
I am officially in love with your Firemouth. I've never seen a female so colorful. I thought only the males had elongated dorsal fins. Idk. I'll research a bit more. But, seeing a Firemouth that size is unusual. Unless on here. Hideous face on the Parrot, though. Never really did like that breed. Cool vid, nonetheless. ;)
leolux10 1 year ago
hey man nice fish i was just wondering if i could keep two firemouths and one oscar in the same tank. the tank is a 75 gallon.
Thomas16112393 1 year ago
@Thomas16112393 with strong filtration, Yes you could. Just make sure that the oscar is a small as possible when you get it, and that the firemouths are as large as possible when you get them, because the oscar will grow twice as fast as the firemouth's will. the average growth rate for a young, well fed oscar is 1 inch per month until it reaches about 7-8 inches. after that the growing slows down a bit
BingX14 1 year ago
@BingX14 How long does it take a firemouth to grwo
SomeYTchannel 1 year ago
@BingX14 Grow
SomeYTchannel 1 year ago
@SomeYTchannel well males grow a little bit faster than females, but id say for both males and females it takes around 1.5 - 2 full years for them to reach max length.
BingX14 1 year ago
@Thomas16112393,
BingX14 is right. The oscars will eat nearly anything that is smaller than it and has a very fast growth rate unlike the firemouths. You should probably keep them in seperate tanks.
Zoocalom565 5 months ago
can i put this video on my firemouth cichlid site. it will help with views
superfishman123 1 year ago
is it just me or are there piranha in the backround?
bmx7272 1 year ago
@bmx7272 Silver dollar fish them mate
TheRealAlanPartridge 1 year ago
@bmx7272 There silver dollars mate. They do look like a piranha tho.
plecomeko 1 year ago
is it just me or is there piranha in the backround?
bmx7272 1 year ago
Looks like the Firemouth is ready to spawn. Did it spawn after you recorded this?
AznKidAtJFD 1 year ago
@AznKidAtJFD yep , the next day there were a few hundred eggs on a rock
BingX14 1 year ago
@BingX14 Did you condition it with any food prior to it spawning?
AznKidAtJFD 1 year ago
how long does it take them to reach their full size?
KingCharlieCKCS 1 year ago
@KingCharlieCKCS about 2 years for them to grow to their maximum size. They grow to 4 inches pretty quickly then the next 2 inches happen much slower. a full grown male will max out at 6-6.5 inches and a female will at 5 inches
BingX14 1 year ago
What kind of lighting are you using? 18,000k aquas??
trinilion 1 year ago
is that a standard firemouth?? looks HUGE.. mine just wont get any size to them.. my largest is 3 inches
djfreake 2 years ago
this is actually the standard adult size for a female. this firemouth is about 4-5 inches. males grow larger and have have an average adult size of 6 inches
BingX14 2 years ago
thats so awesome! lookin to get a firemouth...right now jus doin some research but yeah i'm convinced lol!
flaminfranky 2 years ago
sweet! they are really awesome fish, probably my favorite cichlid species, and ive kept a lot of different ones lol They grow to a very managable size (females 5" max & males 6-7" max) so they don't need a huge tank unless they are with large tankmates. They are gentile enough to be kept with smaller community fish such as lots of small tetras (except neons...too small), but yet they can hold their own just fine with a whole bunch of large american cichlid species
BingX14 2 years ago
also, they are VERY hardy and will readily except all kinds of flake, pellet, frozen and live foods. A male and female will pair up and breed very easily and they are FANTASTIC parents (this is the only time when they get very aggressive, but they won't go around killing tankmates, they are just very territorial and chase away anything that comes close to the eggs/fry) So yeah, FM's are really cool cichlids and they look great. I'm Glad to hear that you're doing your research before buying!
BingX14 2 years ago
yeah i'v got a standard 4foot tank and hav a platydoras, med-large pleco, 3 small GTs and 1 older male, few baby convicts from my breeding pair (in another tank) as live food but survived and hav grown a little and my 5 large clown loaches which are my pride and joy.
flaminfranky 2 years ago
i'm willing to empty my whole tank except the loaches so i got a bit of research to do. my friend wants me to get a jaguar or flowerhorn but i'm really lovin the look of the FMs. but if so the tank might look a little empty. what other cichlids would u suggest with a breeding pair of FMs, 5 clown loaches and 2 catfish?
flaminfranky 2 years ago
She seems alittle stressed with all those fish. Have you ever thought of maybe moving her and the male parrot to a different tank?
CHki0 2 years ago
she's usually fine with all the other fish except at this time. 2 days after i put this video up, she laid her 2nd batch of eggs as i thought she would due to her behavior. Once again the parrot didnt do anything and the eggs weren't fertilized...but now shes back to her calm, peaceful self again. I am, however, going to mess around with the fish stock in this tank, and then get her a nice juvenile male so that they can breed after he reaches maturity. breeding FM's is really cool
BingX14 2 years ago
Oh Noez
Shad0wSquirrel 2 years ago
haha yeahh its alright everything will be back to normal after the firemouth goes thru the whole "being a mother" phase again
BingX14 2 years ago
oh
ok :)
Shad0wSquirrel 2 years ago
nice fish...
joshy69ful 2 years ago