damiem Posted December 21, 2015 Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 Hi guys what are your thoughts on the best ways to breed neon tetraThanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted December 21, 2015 Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 If you go to the top of this page and look under fish - articles you will find a guide to breeding cardinal tetras. Neons are very similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Adrienne Posted December 21, 2015 Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 No worries. If you have not bred fish before - particularly egg scatterers - you might be better to look at a species that are easier to start off with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damiem Posted December 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 Thanks what would you recommend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted December 22, 2015 Report Share Posted December 22, 2015 (edited) It really depends what you want to breed - there are the livebearers like guppies, mollies, swordtails however if you want to be sure of the parentage ie get pure colours etc then you need to buy the females as virgin females, ie never been in a tank with a male before.For egg scatterers I would suggest something like rosy barbs, golden barbs, over the neons whose eggs are light sensitive and once you have raised the fry of the barbs to young adults then give something more difficult a go. You already have angels, do you have a pair of those and if so, have they successfully bred and raised fry?I see in another thread you mentioned cory. They are a good one to start with but you will need several females to a male and they need to be at maturity before they will breed. The eggs are best collected and hatched away from the rest of the cory as often while one lays, the others come along and eat them up. Edited December 22, 2015 by Adrienne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damiem Posted December 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2015 Yea I was thinking about trying the corys or angels in my fish room ( soon to come). I might try some barbs though. Do you know where I could get some older ones so that I don't have to get them young Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted December 22, 2015 Report Share Posted December 22, 2015 Ask on these forums for mature fish - be specific as to what you want and include it and your location in the title. Also Auckland Fishkeepers which is one of the FNZAS (these forums and website are the FNZAS) clubs has its own facebook group which you may wish to join up on and ask there as well. Keep an eye out for people selling on here and possibly on trademe but for some species, if you are breeding you want to be sure it is a pure breed, trademe is not always going to give you that - no matter what some sellers tell you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damiem Posted December 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2015 Thanks will have a look, what barbs are good in community tanks and won't nip angels?? Thanks again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted December 22, 2015 Report Share Posted December 22, 2015 The answer to that last question is none. Barbs are nippy fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damiem Posted December 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2015 Ok thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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