Red tail Sharks

[siftyzod]

Hi there

i have been looking around on the internet for information on breeding red tail sharks and have seen that there is no known cases of breeding in a tank...

i think it should be possible and want to know if anyone has or know of anyone that has bred them in a tank and if so how was it possible?

can anyone help with any advice as i would like to try it out but dont want to spend a fortune on buying lots of them to find out u cant breed them in a tank

thanks

[Adrienne]

Sounds from the first piece below that the issue is mostly that you can only keep one per aquarium whereas you need two to breed however I suppose it would be possible if 1. the tank was large enough 2. there were numerous hiding places/barriers to break up the view. It also appears that sexing is not easy. Maybe if you purchased them young and grew them up together? Another report I read said that if you have more than one you are better to have 3-4.

Breeding the Red tail shark in aquariums can be hard, and the Red tail sharks in fish stores have therefore usually been imported from Thailand. In Thailand, large amounts of Red tail sharks are produced in fish farms each year. Only occasional reports of Red tail shark spawnings in aquariums exist. One of the problems that must be overcome if you want to breed Red tail sharks is the fact that they are very aggressive. Keeping more than one Red tail shark in the same aquarium will usually result in a lot of violence, and this is naturally a problem if you intend to breed them. Sexing is also difficult. Females may have a less pointed dorsal fin.

also found this

Reports of hobbyist breeding Epalzeorhynchus Bicolor are very rare. What I have found is that a large well planted tank with a ratio of more females to males is needed. The females are more robust and rounded than the males. A spawning tube will appear weeks before spawning and the male fertilizes the eggs in jerky thrusting motions as the eggs are scattered. It is said that the eggs hatch in a couple of days and the fry are easy to raise. Most breeding is done in open ponds in their native Thailand and exported around the world.