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I have been breeding the same 2 jacksons for two years now, and last month i got 3 new females. They are looking awsome and eating great but none of them want anything to do with my male. They turn black and hiss at him with lots of head bobbing. Aside from trying again every week is there something i can do to help set the mood? I have breed quite a few chams, and have not really seen any of my females act this uninterested. I would think that at least one of them would breed. I have tried all three 2 times w/one week in-between.
Thanks

All of my female panthers wer like that for a long time. I guess just keep trying, maybe they're not old enough yet? I just keep trying and trying until one day they was cool w/the male.....

You said..."none of them want anything to do with my male. They turn black and hiss at him with lots of head bobbing"...are they CB or WC? How old are they? If they are old enough to be sexually mature, were they with a male before you got them? The behavior and color they are exhibiting means that they are non-receptive/gravid.

You said..."Aside from trying again every week is there something i can do to help set the mood?"...its not a matter of mood. Don't forget that Jackson's only have one or two clutches a year....that means that they spend a lot of time gravid/non-receptive.

I used to keep/breed jacksons (Xantholopus); seems the females were perpetually gravid.
I'm pretty sure that female jacksons retain sperm. If they've been bred before, it could be that they have no need for a male, hence the blackening and hissing.
Is the male doing the head twitching thing?
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Victor Gomez
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I also wonder if they are still unsettled from all the change. Many chams take longer to stabilize in a new setup.