JD nesting??

[hodge]

I have a female JD (5") which I got from a friend to help cycle my new 77 tank. I was lucky enough to get some of gravel from his established tank and the process went extremely easy. I've added a couple Silver dollars and a juvenile Oscar recently and everyone gets along. The plan was to give the JD back once the cycling process was over but she has been cool with the other fish and thought about keeping it.

The JD has spent the last couple of days digging a pit in the substrate (sand) and has become reclusive (was swimming around freely). I was wondering if she is planning on laying eggs?? and what I can expect if she does??. The only experience I've had with fish laying eggs was a Texas that would lay eggs and keep everyone at the other end of the tank for a couple days, then back to normal.

[Melody]

Fish will do the egg thing even without a partner, so she might be. That load won't last long in a 77G though, or do you plan to upgrade? Oscars alone need a lot of room and don't appreciate much in the line of company.:no: I have heard of a very few people keeping them with other fish, but none without issues and they always had huge tanks. JD's & Silver Dollars have been kept with Oscars successfully in spacious tanks if the fish are young when they are brought together, but again, its hit or miss.

So we have an excuse for a bigger tank - that's not so bad. :;):

[hodge]

The plan is to keep only the Oscar when it grows to 3-4". Was just worried the JD would get nasty with my lil Oscar if it started laying eggs.

I'd like to get a 130 gal (6') if I can find one (selection is slim, without driving a 800 miles) lol

[CACAdmin]

I'd like to get a 130 gal (6') if I can find one (selection is slim, without driving a 800 miles) lol

Good luck in your search... hope you find something closer to home than that because the price of gas alone would make the tank much more expensive.:wideeyed: That is unless you plan to pick it up whilst on vacation. Then the time and gas would simply be been part of the trip. (Next vacation: Vancouver? :;): )

[ChrissyFishy]

My oscar hated every other fish I got for his tank and one time he ate a six inch pleco!!!!!!:eek:

[Melody]

I read that somewhere... they can eat them because they're narrow.:wideeyed: