Breeding Galaxy Rasbora

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I'm looking to breed these guys, the only thing im not sure about is temp.Currently it sits about 76 but is this a little too high?I could drop it a few degrees as I have nothing in there that will it warmer(pygmy corys, cherry shrimp).
 
No idea, but willing to try.

I'll suggest having couple idea's.
Hanging spawning mops on the surface and sinking some on the bottom, I would say their scatters but may place them in vegetation as their a small slim fish i can t see them producing 1000's of eggs and leaving them to nature, i would think that they would deposite a few eggs amoung plants so that they may has a slightly better chance.

Sexing
... Nothing official.
I've noticed that some are note as bright, I'll suggest their females.
Feed them on loads of newly hatched birne shrimp and see if u can get loads of weight on them.

Water conditions.....Again nothing official
They look soft water to my but as their location in unknown nothing is sure so perhaps think of using rain water at a 50/50 mix

breeding
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Once they look fat check the mops daily to see if u can find eggs.

Rearing fry
As with all fish, you need small live food's vinigar eel and micro worms for the first 50-10 days untill their of a size that will feed on NHBS.

A simple look i know but thats what i would do if i had the space.
 
Ok from what i can find on wiki their from Inle Lake is a freshwater lake located in the mountains of Shan State in Myanmar (Burma)

wikipedia.org link


Matt Clark of PFK said:
The fish lives in relatively cool, alkaline water
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Ok scrap my idea of rain water.
Sounds like yes u may need to drop the temp I'll sugest try 20-22C see what happens there
 
PFK says

'Sexing: Quite simple to sex when the fish are in good condition. Males are brighter coloured and have bright red fins with squiggles of blue-black in the dorsal and anal, and the upper lobes of the caudal fin. The chests of males are also more orangey and they tend to be slimmer. Females are slightly less colourful, with less red and fewer dark squiggles and uncoloured pelvic fins. They have rounder bodies and a slightly paler overall colour. Both sexes have the same chunky appearance seen in Danio choprai and the hump-backed of Microrasbora erythromicron.
Breeding: Pete Liptrot and Paul Dixon of the Bolton Museum Aquarium were the world's first fishkeepers to spawn this species, and they managed to do just a couple of weeks after the fish first became available in the UK. Very little is known about reproduction. Paul says that he observed a brightly-coloured male attempting to drive females into a spawning mop and Pete found seven small eggs in a clump of Java moss a week later and spotted some fry which had already hatched. Said Pete: "The eggs have been laid over Java Moss and appear to be only very slightly adhesive, they drop out of the moss very easily. We've removed the moss to another aquarium to see what else hatches. As we were moving the moss one of the smaller males was very busy hunting around for eggs or fry."'

So while it doesn't mention water conditions (although I'd imagine cool water changes, perhaps some experimentation is in order), something simialr to a danio breeding setup (with mesh bottom and spawning mops/mosses to catch the eggs) would do the trick.
 
ye just found the same data on PFK

So sound's like the mops and/or java moss the way to go.
 
noticed mine doing some odd behaviour in the last week or so, was wondering if it had anything to do with breeding....

2 of them will get parallell to each other but facing opposite directions, maybe a cm or two apart. then they sort of twitch and shake a bit and move round in a circle keeping they're same formation.

they keep doing it, it's strange to watch!! any idea what it is they're doing?
 
that sounds more like 2 males displaying to see who's the best.
 

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