will the egges laid by blue acara hatch?

[Ammar]

hi

i have 80 gallons tank with 4 blood parrots and 2 blue acara

for the 1st time i have noticed that the female acara laid eggs and protecting them with the male.

do you think the eggs will hatch or what happened with my blood parrot will happen again with acara, becacuse blood parrot eggs never hatched, eggs turn white and then get eaten.

and if eggs hatch what should i do?

[GaryC597]

Blood parrots are a hybrid that is not very fertile. Sometimes their eggs hatch, but more often they don't. Cichlid eggs that turn white are, generally speaking, infertile.

The blue acara eggs will probably hatch, if the acaras can keep the blood parrots from eating their eggs.

If you want to raise the fry, I would first remove the blood parrots from the tank (they will try to eat the fry, even if they don't eat the eggs). If this is not possible, remove the fry to their own tank as soon as they are free-swimming. Feed the fry very small foods (the size of baby brine shrimp) to start with, and make frequent water changes.

[yablocksthetruth423]

Blue Acaras are relatively easy to breed and pretty good parents. These eggs should be fertile and if you get the proper foods and hopefully another aquarium set up you'll be able to raise some babies. Goto a fish specialist pet store and buy some cyclops eeze freeze dried or frozen cyclops, some frozen BABY brine shrimp and if you know anyone else in the hobby that breeds get some vinegar eels started. After the eggs hatch and the babies start to swim, not just hop around, start feeding small amounts of food to the area they are in. I do this w/ a non-needle syringe with the above foods room temp w/ some aquarium water. I also set up a small aquarium with a small cell sponge filter and water from the parents tank. After free swimming stage I syphon about 1/2 of the babies into the small aquarium being very very careful to not hurt the young or freak out the parents too much.

Don't be surprised if for the first 3 spawns or so the parents don't figure it out and the eggs aren't fully fertile or they eat the eggs or babies. It happens until the figure it out.

Blood Parrots are hybreds and no one should buy these frankenstein sterile forced mutants. There are enough beautiful fish in the world. We shouldn't encourage these asian farms to inject with hormones and force breed fish that weren't meant to be. Support breeders that raise and breed true pure known species.