Nicolette Posted August 27, 2007 Report Share Posted August 27, 2007 After googling for pics of glowlight tetras eggs or spawning I gave up and tonight when the little blighters started spawning I took a couple of pics. Enjoy... the first one is of the breeding pair after a spawn run through the ambulia. the second one is of the pvc pipe covered in eggs. Unfortunately the parents ate most of the eggs off the pvc tube before i got them relocated. Hopefully there will still be some survivors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke* Posted August 27, 2007 Report Share Posted August 27, 2007 Wicked! So fun to breed glowlights :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolette Posted August 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2007 yep this is my 2nd go.. First spawn I managed to find and keep alive only 2 fry.. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke* Posted August 27, 2007 Report Share Posted August 27, 2007 haha... keep doing it you get better as it goes along. I have 3 females and 3 males seperated conditioning up nicely now. I'll breed them in 3 side by side small tanks I think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolette Posted August 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2007 this lot I did last night was 2 females and 1 male and he spawned with both... go figure? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coelacanth Posted August 28, 2007 Report Share Posted August 28, 2007 if you want to get lots of eggs and fry, set the pairs up in a specific breeding tank. All it needs in it is a spawning grid over the base (the grid can be just a bit of whitebait mesh from the nearest hardware store, cut to fit the bottom of the tank). No plants or anything like that are required. You can breed them in pairs, trios or schools (upsize the tank as per number of pairs!). The fry are easily reared on brine shrimp. I always found that the tank needed to be completely darkened as for neons or no eggs hatched, but I've never seen this mentioned in books and I believe other people breed them just fine without the darkening. (But its worth keeping in mind if you get only poor results). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon1990 Posted August 28, 2007 Report Share Posted August 28, 2007 So what size tank can you breed them in? And how do you breed them? ANd whatelse can you feed fry other than BBS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolette Posted August 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2007 I have them in half a 40lt tank (the other half is growing out some other fry) and will be feeding them NovaTom as I have had good success using that in the past. As far as getting them to breed. I just waited till the females looked fat as and put them in the breeding tank in the afternoon and added the male later that night and turned the heater up to 26.5degrees. They spawned the following afternoon evening. I didn't feed them in the breeding ank though. Same technique for buenos aires tetras got them spawning too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon1990 Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 Would a 39cm x 20 x 20 takn do for breeding a pair? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolette Posted August 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 yeah I think that would be fine, thats about the size of the one I have but I brought a divider from the LFS and split it into 2 sections so straight after spawning I could put the breeding pair into the other half without having to bag and reclimatise them into the main tank. The key I am told is to use a single sponge filter rather than a standard internal filter as the wee fry get sucked into a normal filter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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