Breeding Neon Tetra

Should work for most fish. Not all, but most...

 

Pleasure @col182 I hope it works for you. I have never bothered to breed neons before, eventhough they have spawned in my tanks before without intervention, but off course all the eggs got eaten. Good luck.

 

Hi Scuba,

I've done it with Black Ruby barbs and Cherry barbs before, but they don't need much encouragement to spawn.

 

Well my albino cory just laid eggs first time I have ever had fish lay eggs

 

Nice

 

Issu with breading is you some times get stuck with an over populated tank ^^

 

Hi all , sorry for no new updates , work been keeping me busy , had to go up to the limpopo for the weekend so i have not manage to get things going , will up date this weekend hopefully and start getting the ball rolling again.

 

No. Problem we all know work lol

 

so how is it going with the neons @col182

 

hi @tanked72 , to be honest i am not sure lol , been really busy so haven't kept as up to date with it as I should have , Changed females and the one in the spawning tank is now a lot thinner then she was when i put her in, can't see any babies but i do have all those leaves in the bottom, I will be taking the pair out and then checking from time to time to see if any fry appear out of the leaves and will let you know.

 

Crossing my fingers for you @col182 I hope you find some fry swimming around that would be great after all the effort you put into this project

 

Have you Had any luck on breading them ?

 

Hi @guillaume unfortunately I had to take the whole thing down , the good news was I did get them to spawn but it was in the conditioning tank and not in the spawning tank so the eggs were eaten , I am currently redoing my breeding setup to continue with some breeding but I am undecided whether I will give Neons another go or something else , I have that whole problem of to many fish I want to breed and to little space and tanks lol

 

here's a pic of the new setup I am working on to get things going again

 

@col182 thats awasem congrads how did you condision them ? Also did you lower the ph in that tank or not ? Thanx for the reply good luck with the new project

 

@guillaume I used mostly frozen foods to condition them I would use blood worms one day , shrimp on day 2, daphnia on day 3 then start from blood worms again , they would also still get a small amount of flake food every day too , the pH I cheated a bit , I ended up buying water that was already slightly lower ph , if you shop around you can get buy still water in 5 litre bottles that have a ph of 6.8 and is very soft that has already been put through a reverse osmosis process that removes heavy metals and most of the minerals.

 

O but do a little research before using reverse osmosis water , fish do need a certain amount of minerals in the water to stay healthy so u might need to add some in to the water or you can mix about 10% tap water with the RO water

 

What is the difference between RO and O3 water?
Oasis water sells water, and if you bring your own container, it works out to about R1-00 a litre.

 

@Pezulu basically oasis water just has a few extra steps in it , they use uv and ozonation to "sterilise" the water , they also use RO in the process of making their water so basically oasis water is RO water that has been sterilised using ozonation and uv treatment

 

@Pezulu.
You can take your containers to dorry pets and get treated RO water from them at R1 a litre.