Will My Jack Dempsey Parents Eat Their Young?
Q… Will My Jack Dempsey Parents Eat Their Young?
A… Jack Dempsey parents don’t often eat their young. Occasionally they will if there are too many threats to the fry in an aquarium with other tank mates. It’s thought that the parents feel that they can’t protect their brood so why let other fish get the protein; they may then eat the fry. Sometimes a male JD gets aggressive after the fry hatch and may become a threat to the babies. He should then be removed to let the female attend to them alone. On occasion I have left some juveniles in the aquarium with their parents for many weeks. If the parents begin to spawn again, they will certainly see these older juveniles as a threat and begin to attack them. The size of the aquarium has a lot to do with these situations. If any juveniles are left in the home aquarium with the spawning parents, a few may survive if they have shelter.
Jack Dempsey cichlids make fantastic parents and the fry should not be removed from parental care for at least 3 weeks. If the eggs are layed in a tank with other fish and you wish to hatch and save the jack dempsey babies then click here for instruction on how to…
Jack Lamountain
John Antonis
January 16, 2011 at 8:08 pm
Is this an email to the Jack Lamountain I used to sing with in the Continentals?
jackarthur46
January 16, 2011 at 9:44 pm
haha.. Hi buddy, how are you? Wow.. I’m so surprised. What are you doing on my website?
John Antonis
March 3, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Hi Jack, I am sorry I didn’t check back on this site sooner. I just came back to this site today (3/3/11) How are you? I’ve been trying to find you for months now. I live in New Hampshire like you, only I’m up in the Lakes Region. I would love to see you and talk about the last 20 years. I have a home website too if you want to email me there. It’s jantonis@metrocast.net. Please please give me a call or email. My phone # is 603-728-8802 I’m retiring in the next 2 years What are you doing now, and where are you living?
John Antonis
March 3, 2011 at 7:19 pm
Hi again, I just wanted to say I’m at jantonis@burndy.com right now! I am so excited to hear from you!!!
John Antonis
April 4, 2011 at 11:44 pm
Where are you Bud? I keep trying to get a hold of you and it’s like you’ve disappeared!! jantonis@metrocast.net
cardell
September 6, 2011 at 11:33 am
hi…my jacks mated about 2 weeks ago…today i noticed that there are no fry in the tank….did i do something wrong? the water temp was at 79-81 degrees….i had an air stone and filtration going..both parents were in the tank…
amber
January 8, 2012 at 7:49 pm
it could be that the fish felt threatened or he did not fertilize the eggs did you see any eggs in the tank. if so then they ate them. most likesly if you did not see any fry then they did not get fertilized..