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Breeding Help Please
- Thread starter Miss.Ward
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Im assuming you want to beed them in a separate tank because if left in a community tank no fry or eggs will survive.
To get Neon Tetras in breeding condition, they must be fed meaty, live foods. Allow the Neon Tetras to eat as much of these foods as they will consume until they are nice and fat. Change 25% to 50% of the tank water each week filling with slightly cooler water to mimic seasonal changes and encourage breeding, then set the heater to maintain 70 to 72F.
Place the spawning mops and plants into breeding tank. Eggs are quite small and, with close inspection, can be seen lying on the bottom and among the mops. When spawning the males will chase the females incessantly in and out of the mops and plants. When you feel that the day's spawning is completed, remove the adults to another tank to avoid the eggs being eaten.
The eggs will hatch in about 36 hours. The tiny Neon Tetra fry can be seen wiggling on the bottom of the tank. It takes 4 or 5 more days before the fry are free-swimming and can be fed with fry food.
To get Neon Tetras in breeding condition, they must be fed meaty, live foods. Allow the Neon Tetras to eat as much of these foods as they will consume until they are nice and fat. Change 25% to 50% of the tank water each week filling with slightly cooler water to mimic seasonal changes and encourage breeding, then set the heater to maintain 70 to 72F.
Place the spawning mops and plants into breeding tank. Eggs are quite small and, with close inspection, can be seen lying on the bottom and among the mops. When spawning the males will chase the females incessantly in and out of the mops and plants. When you feel that the day's spawning is completed, remove the adults to another tank to avoid the eggs being eaten.
The eggs will hatch in about 36 hours. The tiny Neon Tetra fry can be seen wiggling on the bottom of the tank. It takes 4 or 5 more days before the fry are free-swimming and can be fed with fry food.
If this is your first try at breeding egg layers, I'd really recommend you try something else before you try neons; they're a very tricky fish to breed successfully; mostly because the eggs are light sensitive, so you can't check when the fry have hatched, plus they need tiny, tiny, almost microscopic, first foods.
and yea i have been told that before might try somthing else first thanks.
Another thing to consider is the pH of the water and particularly the hardness. An acidic pH and very low hardness are required. The eggs will not hatch in hard water.
pH should be below 7, in nature, the pH can get very low 5 or even lower at the start of the rainy season. The rain washes humic acid from the fallen vegetation into the, at that time, small streams/rivers. Later when the rivers fill, it is diluted and the pH slowly rises. Many characin species spawn early in the season however, so lower is better.
Calcium and Magnesium ions in the water have a large impact on hatching. If the water is "hard", even if the fish spawn, the eggs just do not hatch.
When I have bred Amazonian characins, I have used an RO unit to get the water down to where it needs to be.
Calcium and Magnesium ions in the water have a large impact on hatching. If the water is "hard", even if the fish spawn, the eggs just do not hatch.
When I have bred Amazonian characins, I have used an RO unit to get the water down to where it needs to be.
I always used to use rainwater for breeding tetras; I've had tanks where the pH has dropped to 4.5!
You have zero chance breeding most tetras, certainly neons, in a community tank. You need at least one, preferably two, dedicated breeding tanks.
You have zero chance breeding most tetras, certainly neons, in a community tank. You need at least one, preferably two, dedicated breeding tanks.
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