fins Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 next year its a possiblity that I will only be doing killies, probably mostly annuals. They might take a while to hatch but all the pet shops want my nothos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 How i breed cardinals and rummy nose tetras! I think the key to breeding these fish is pair selection. At the moment i have 4 pairs of cardinals and 6 pairs of rummy nose. They get put down to breed every 3-4 days. I do this for about 2 - 3 weeks when i get the time. I get about 10 - 30 rummys out and 10 - 15 cardinals about every second time. I started with about 20 cardinals and rummys. sorted the pairs out into there own tanks, male in one female in the other. I have a large drum (100ltr) of water that has a c filter + a peat bag that the water flows thru. I will only use this water for breeding, and only when the water is really dark. The water that is in with the adults is standard tap water. I set up a heap of 14 x 7 x 7 tanks with wire mesh in the bottom. then add peat water a little! spawning moss place wood of plastic between the tanks put one pair of fish per tank if the fish are going to spawn they will do so in the morning on the first or second day If you get eggs make sure you know what pair spawned and keep them away from the other pairs...!!!!!!! this may help and you can use this system for most tetras Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiuh Posted October 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 whats WCMM ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fins Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 white cloud mountain minnow. If you want a tetra to breed you could try congo tetra's. They have large numbers of eggs and are supost to be easy. From what I can recall they are $12 each for adults, $10 for smaller ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke* Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 Good advice TM. I've find glowlight tetras spawn very readily in the right conditions (which aren't hard to obtain), retail for about $3 and if done right you get hundreds of fry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livebearer_breeder Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 wcmm are spose to be the easiest of all egglayers to breed! Shae Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_from_nz Posted October 16, 2004 Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 I have heared swift resboras are easy to breed but they need to be in their own breeding tank as the trick is to get the watter really soft (and slightly acidic i think) and add peat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livebearer_breeder Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 i found my blue ram very easy to breed i just feed them up left them alone, and when the fry started coming i fed them until they become indapendent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiuh Posted October 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 Rams look after their fry dont they? what do you feed the fry with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livebearer_breeder Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 yup they do! i feed them with liquid fry food and you can use micro worms! both are very cheap and easy to obtain Cheers Shae Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benlee Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 how do you tell the differance between a male and female tetra? or is it different for each type of tetra? i was thinking about trying to breed emerald eyed tetras. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 Specifically,what tetra or tetras?? Alan 104 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 Woops. Sorry, should have read the full post. The different body shape tetras give a different way of sexing them eg, the Back Widow, - - take away all the fins, what shape body do you have. Round or ovalate?? The round ones are the females. Look at a group of tetras,neon-shape for example You will see slim bodies and fatter boddies, fatter =female. Also the longer shaped tetras like the neons, that have a longitudinal line running the length of their bodies, will be bent (the line that is) if it's a female. Colour variation of the eyes, eg, congo tetrashave green or blue eyes, green = females. The head and taillight tetra types are easily sexed by their shape, fat v slim method. Of course you can't leave out the variations you have with the male V female, where as in most species, the male is more gaudy than the female. Ever noticed when netting a group of tetra in a fine net, how sometimes you'll get some that snag and just hang suspended in the net?? Those are males, they have hookson their anal fins. With the emerald eyes, and I think they may be emerald eyed rasbora, just go by the fat/slim method. But the surest way of sexing them is that the ones that lay eggs are females, and if any babies appeared, you had at least one male in there somewhere. :roll: Alan 104 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeCee Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 In Chch - cardinals are about $5-6 and neons $1.80....much cheaper especially if you are buying a decent school of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiuh Posted October 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 we have cardinal around $6.95 and neons for $2.95 here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke* Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 We've got some emerald eyes here, about eight, you're right Alan they are rasboras. They are very very hard to sex, almost no difference between males and females because they are so small. The only way I can tell is when the males chase a female and I notice the female has a slightly larger body, mainly from top to bottom rather than side to side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 As Alan said for the Emerald eyes the fat and slim difference is one of the main ones, but also the males get a bit of rusty/gold colouration on their caudal peduncle (the bit of the body the tail attaches to). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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