Acara advice please.

Hi Guys,I have a breeding pair (at least it seemed so) of Electric blue acaras . They were previously in a community tank ,but after they became aggro and showing spawning behaviour. I then moved them to a 60cm tank where I thought they can get their groove on. But now it seems it is only the male that wants to spawn,and subsequently he abuses the female.

I am doing partial water changes every couple of days and am only feeding them blood worms.

Seeing that the females fins took quite a bit of beating and the male to some extent . At which point would I need to separate them ,as I don't want them to kill each other.


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Thanks Reedfish , I have a 90cm as well,but is filled with plants and shrimp .Do you think I should rather move them over and the shrimp out.

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OK thanks ,gonna be a bit tedious as I will have to remove most of the plants and all the shrimp

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@Greenbean32, yes.. as @Reedfish mentioned, my electric blue acaras have spawned a few times

The first two times, they were in a 700l community tank
They had some severums, an oscar and some loaches for company and they kept everyone away from the eggs
When babies were born we siphoned them out with a 20mm pipe..

I then moved everyone over to my 2.3m and they have spawned 3 times and now they busy again but one of my loaches has manged to get to the eggs the last two times so I am going to move them back to the 700l tank


I havent had any aggression between the male and the female but they do defend their eggs fiercely for their size..
Maybe the female is not ready and because the tank is not big he gets to her
I would move them to the 90l tank but i would not take out all the plants (they dont destroy plants) they do like a piece of wood where to lay the eggs

I stand to be corrected but i think they also need more than just bloodworms to condition your female
Mine get little pieces of fish which they steal from my arowana, they get sinking pellets, bloodworms and earthworms every now and then.

Hope this helps a little and wish you all best.
Love my acaras, they are gorgeous

 

Post a picture of your pair, I think i should be able to confirm if you have a male and female

 

Thanks Maria ,I have started moving some of the plants over as there is just too much in the 90cm.

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That is what I presume to be the male

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As you can see the female has taken quite a beating.

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Will move them to that tank in the morning.

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this is my pair.

 

Nice , is the male the bottom one.

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My male is quite a bit bigger than the female and his colour is much bluer than her with a broader orange stripe the female, when ready to spawn goes very black
The whole top of her head goes black and along her sides she also gets black on her scales
They busy wanting to spawn again and she is very black
I will post a picture of her tomorrow as she looks now... my son pinched cable for my phone .. so cant do it right now...

 

Yes, and the loach next to him is the egg thieve!!!

Your one on left is the male but your one on the right is much bigger than my two females, mine are smaller and have smaller heads so im a bit unsure

 

Her scales is also black and her face .
Any ideas as to what I can do to the 90 to make it more comfortable. Like is that flat rock and clay pot sufficient.

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