Red Jewel Cichlid baby fish born 12/4/2010

To our amazement, this is what we found in our fish tank one day. Easily over 500 baby Red Jewel Cichlids. We put some screen up so the other fish wouldn't eat them, but we found the next day that they could swim right thru it. We lost about half overnight. Still more than we can deal with.

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Pets & Animals

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• baby fish
• cichlid
• raising baby fish
• fish hatching
• egg laying fish
• aquarium

[shadicx90]

About how long did it take for the eggs to hatch?

[rwardynski]

@shadicx90 Don't really know how long it took the eggs to hatch as we didn't even know there were eggs. Just happen to go down by the tank and saw approx. 2,000 new fry. Sorry I couldn't provide more info.

[chern1970]

WHAT KIND OF LIGHT BULD DO YOU HAVE?

[rwardynski]

the bulbs are a standard fluorescent lamp for an aquarium.

[rwardynski]

Its difficult trying to identify the sex of them. For mine, the bright red one is the male and the lighter red is the female. My male is also smaller than the female, which is unusual.

[YaYiCk]

JUST THREE (3) DAYS!

[carper1325]

hi are u going to sale any great fish superb colin

[carper1325]

Hi these fish are superb. Do. U sell the offspring. Colin

[stnwllstv]

@stnwllstv CORRECTION: H. Lifallis is known as Blood-Red Jewels and H. Cristatus is the Crown Jewel. The ones in this video are most probably Lifalilis or possibly Cristatus (but probably not). Definitely not Bimacs or Payneis.

[stnwllstv]

For anyones reference,these solid red jewels are Hemichromis Lifalli and are often but not always referred to and/or sold as Crown Jewels.They tend to stay under 5 inches and are fairly sensitive to their water conditions.What you most often see for sale are Hemichromis Bimaculatus which are red on top fading to a bright orange about halfway down.If the solid reds are what you want be sure to verify that they are Lifallis and not Bimacs.They often cost about 2-3x more than Bimacs as well.

[MelFireHD]

Those sure are some beautiful Jewels

[keithahargis]

@rwardynski Thats not unusual actually. In the fish world, it is common for the female to be the more dominant and larger one. This is not always true, but sometimes.

[WillynNoah]

Omg juss cuyute! now i want a female red fish and male red fish juss so they can have babies! lol

[kualundertube]

@rwardynski Sexing them is actually quite easy.... Just look at the tail, The females have a red edge and a little bit of color on the tip of the tail and it fades out to a yellowish grey as you go halfway down...The males on the other hand have sky blue and red markings all over their tail all the way to the body... I read it somewhere and have tested it out myself and it has been very accurate so far :)

[monstercichlidkeeper]

@chern1970 - not sure how big is his bulge but he sure has a nice bulb