Red Empress

Well its official , just put 1 m , 4 f Red Empress in there own tank .

Hopefully nature will take its course.

keep my fingers crossed.


In the upcoming months will be trying to breed taiwan reefs.

Very nice, good luck with them. I am supposed to be getting a pair soon. Can't wait!

Congrates Pics are needed

Red Empress's are one of the few peacocks that don't need dithers... for whatever reason I don't think I've ever seen a male beating up a female.... could just be luck but I've never seen it happen.

will do , put them in a 40 gal breeder ( petco had the sale 1$ a gallon ) ,

right now i Do Not have any crushed coral gravel on the bottom . but I Do have a bunch of rocks/ hiding spots in there for them .

Do You think i need to put some gravel in there .

so jb1edlover i do have another male , u think its safe to throw him in there also ??

Just to clear the record. They are Haplochromis. They get a little bigger then Peacocks do. I would plan on getting a bigger tank in the future. I would also plan on adding to your group. Maybe 2-3M / 9-10 Fem In 100 Gallons plus. I had 1M and 10 female in a 100G and had fry coming out my And then my male passed.....wish I would of had another one.

If you keep your small group ...from experiance I can tell you as soon as you loose one it hurts the group b/c it is so small already and most likely more deaths to follow with an ending result in having 1 or no fish. The larger the group the more breeding and less deaths you will have. I GARUNTEE that. They are non stop breeders if you get them going.

i also have a 75 , 125 , 150 . jus wanted to get them in their own tank to start the process . they have bred before and i have about 15 fry now growing . when those fry get big enough they will go into the 75 than by than im sure ill have another 120 or bigger .

what an addiction

thanks for the advice .

Please keep me posted! and pics! One of my Fav. Haps

myself too .. wifey got the camera somewhere , will get some pics asap ..

Are you looking for a Big Male Kory? I'll trade 2 females for 1 big male He is a bruiser.

I sold the females after I lost the male. I was P.O.'d!

that would been some breeder's deal of the day. I thought you still have them. I just got about 20 of them last weekend from a friend. They spawned after two days of being in my tank. These guys are rabbits

Yes they are. Great looking fish. Takes awhile for them to color ...like most Haps...but very very nice color. Red and blue everywhere. Females hold 60+ eggs in there mouth. Good stuff

Yeah I have 4 fully colored males with lots of females. The holding female is about 4 inches. We'll see how may she's holding in 2 more weeks.