Jason Lee - 2003-08-28 I have 4 blue acaras. They stick together and sometimes even defend the littlest one from the firemouths red devil and the Jack Dempsey most of all. Everyone should have a Blue acara.
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Mieke - 2012-05-05 How big is the tank you are keeping the 4 blue acaras in? Are they two pairs? I am thinking about buying two pairs for my 320 liter tank. Do you think that would be possible?
frank - 2011-11-25 At what stage should the parents be seperated from the babies? Or should they be left with them?
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Charlie Roche - 2011-11-25 Scroll up in the article and you will see that the Blue Acara are good parents - unlike many fish that eat their young. You can leave the fry in with their parents. They don't have to be removed. If you remove the fry, they will breed every couple of weeks. Be careful if you remove the fry as probably not a good idea to have them breed that frequently.
wayne - 2010-05-03 Does anyone know where I could find blue acara in western canada or a safe supplier? Has anyone combined them with blood parrots and severums?
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Amelia - 2010-10-03 I have 2 Blue acaras and I have a severum and mine go great together.
JB - 2011-09-15 Hey I have two young blue acaras that are about 2 inches with two severums that are 5-6 inches and have no problems with each other
gareth - 2010-06-19 Hey I'd like to know if any one has successful breed blue acara x green terror I now have a mating pair of 1 blue acara and 1 green terror I'd like to know if any one out there has breed the 2 before?
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Steve - 2011-01-16 Hey mate I'd be interested in hearing how they turned out. My green terror and blue acara just paired up and laid eggs.
Sarah - 2010-05-15 I had a breeding pair of blue acaras. These fish were crazy. Once the eggs hatched the female would turn on the male. They would fight over the eggs who ever own never let the other near. I only have the female now she is a mean fish. Eat one of my tetra nipped a few others fins off. Killed off my flag cichlid baby. She eats like a pig, gets mean when she wants to spawn. She will get full of eggs that's when other fish have to watch out. She is almost a year old and 4.5". I keep her with other larger cichlids now.
They will spawn at only 2". To sex look at the fish profile. Males have a square head female have more of a slope. Males get longer fins once mature.females are round too and have a thicker body.
These are not as peacful as some like to tell you. They are bullys and need to be kept with larger fish. Breeding is easy but getting a bounded pair can be hard. It's a nice fish not my fav but still nice. They are outgoing hardy fish.
Frankie - 2010-03-02 A pair of my wild caught blue acaras have finally bred! I lowered the water level to 40% volume, waited a couple of days and then raised the water level to 100% over a 2-day period. This triggered the fish into spawning.
frankie - 2010-02-02 I have two pairs of large, wild caught Blue Acaras which have not bred yet. Lots of jaw locking and displaying, but no eggs yet. One of the males is very aggressive to the females, which seems to put the females off breeding. I kept a pair of tank-bred Blue Acaras years ago which bred prolifically.
matthew - 2009-12-27 I have a blue acara with two angels, 2 african cichlids, a pleco, a khuli loach, a blue dragon goby, gold gourami,and a african clawed frog. They all seem to get along fine and he is by far my most favoured fish even more then my eletric blue johanni and red on red zebra
The Blue Acara is an old time favorite as they spawn easily and make excellent parents, taking very good care of their fry!
I have 4 blue acaras. They stick together and sometimes even defend the littlest one from the firemouths red devil and the Jack Dempsey most of all. Everyone should have a Blue acara.
How big is the tank you are keeping the 4 blue acaras in? Are they two pairs? I am thinking about buying two pairs for my 320 liter tank. Do you think that would be possible?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Mieke
At what stage should the parents be seperated from the babies? Or should they be left with them?
Scroll up in the article and you will see that the Blue Acara are good parents - unlike many fish that eat their young. You can leave the fry in with their parents. They don't have to be removed. If you remove the fry, they will breed every couple of weeks. Be careful if you remove the fry as probably not a good idea to have them breed that frequently.
Does anyone know where I could find blue acara in western canada or a safe supplier?
Has anyone combined them with blood parrots and severums?
I have 2 Blue acaras and I have a severum and mine go great together.
Hey I have two young blue acaras that are about 2 inches with two severums that are 5-6 inches and have no problems with each other
I found blue acara from a pond nearby my house. It is very beautiful so I put it in my aquarium with koi fish.
Hey I'd like to know if any one has successful breed blue acara x green terror I now have a mating pair of 1 blue acara and 1 green terror I'd like to know if any one out there has breed the 2 before?
Hey mate I'd be interested in hearing how they turned out. My green terror and blue acara just paired up and laid eggs.
I had a breeding pair of blue acaras. These fish were crazy. Once the eggs hatched the female would turn on the male. They would fight over the eggs who ever own never let the other near. I only have the female now she is a mean fish. Eat one of my tetra nipped a few others fins off. Killed off my flag cichlid baby. She eats like a pig, gets mean when she wants to spawn. She will get full of eggs that's when other fish have to watch out. She is almost a year old and 4.5". I keep her with other larger cichlids now.
They will spawn at only 2". To sex look at the fish profile. Males have a square head female have more of a slope. Males get longer fins once mature.females are round too and have a thicker body.
These are not as peacful as some like to tell you. They are bullys and need to be kept with larger fish. Breeding is easy but getting a bounded pair can be hard. It's a nice fish not my fav but still nice. They are outgoing hardy fish.
A pair of my wild caught blue acaras have finally bred! I lowered the water level to 40% volume, waited a couple of days and then raised the water level to 100% over a 2-day period. This triggered the fish into spawning.
I have two pairs of large, wild caught Blue Acaras which have not bred yet. Lots of jaw locking and displaying, but no eggs yet. One of the males is very aggressive to the females, which seems to put the females off breeding. I kept a pair of tank-bred Blue Acaras years ago which bred prolifically.
I have a blue acara with two angels, 2 african cichlids, a pleco, a khuli loach, a blue dragon goby, gold gourami,and a african clawed frog. They all seem to get along fine and he is by far my most favoured fish even more then my eletric blue johanni and red on red zebra
I have a male and a female. They are in with angelfish, gouramis, a mollie, platies, kissing fish, and danios.