Ryefish
Fish Herder
You don't know just how excited I am about starting this journal. My boyfriend went away on Thursday so i've needed something to keep me busy, so i decided to try and breed my Galaxy Rasbora's. I have five Rasbora's - unfortunately i have four males and only one female. Since planting up the tank more, i have noticed they have been harrassing her to breed and i don't want the stress of four males trying to breed with her to kill her 
I had the option of buying more (lack of funds for that and the shop i originally bought them from closed down) and hoping for more females, or breed her and pray for female offspring. The female has been getting more and more plump over the space of a week or more.
So, on Thursday, off the boyfriend went on his holiday, and I got busy preparing my tiny little 6litre 'tank'. I cleaned it out with a vinegar and water solution, dried and rinsed again. Found my spare mini heater, grabbed my java fern and siamese fighter's 'house' from the main 31G tank and made a make-shift home for the fish for a few days
The set-up
It's been sat on my windowsill and rather cold the past few nights so i've been monitoring the water temperature.
Two or three times per day i've been changing 4 litre's of water for water straight from the main tank (keep PH, temp and water parameters nice).
I might not have done everything by the book, but i've never attempted this before and i don't have cash to throw around on things so i've used stuff that i've got laid around the house. I've been feeding them live daphnia and frozen/thawed brine shrimp
Thursday morning - i caught the female fish and chose the best of my males - brightest colours, healthy, best fin markings, the one that seemed more interested in the female. Put them both in the tank together to settle down
Friday - upped the heat to 27/28C, kept male and female together, watched him dance to her most of the day
Saturday - Made a divider and split the male and female up. Covered the tank with a thick towel on the night.
divider (rather messy hahaha)
This morning (Sunday), last day before i was putting the fish back into the main tank - Uncovered the tank at 10am, replaced two litres of water
I found some eggs in the bottom of the tank an hour later
I don't know if they are fertile or not, but it doesn't matter. It's one step further than i ever expected to be at.
I have put the fish back in to the main tank. The female didn't look as plump as she had and they weren't dancing together anymore and with having a bare bottom tank, i didn't want the eggs to be eaten.
Some eggs have white spots, some are slightly white, some are clear (thinking the clear ones aren't)
Going to the shop to get some infusoria (i belive its called that) and startingsome brine shrimp hatching (got eggs in the fridge already), just in case
I've read about putting some methylene blue in the water so stop fungus on the eggs, but i've already read that it isn't always necessary???
If anyone has any advice / comments then please, feel free. I've never done this before, and even if it fails i plan to try again at another time and will continue to use this thread as a journal
I had the option of buying more (lack of funds for that and the shop i originally bought them from closed down) and hoping for more females, or breed her and pray for female offspring. The female has been getting more and more plump over the space of a week or more.So, on Thursday, off the boyfriend went on his holiday, and I got busy preparing my tiny little 6litre 'tank'. I cleaned it out with a vinegar and water solution, dried and rinsed again. Found my spare mini heater, grabbed my java fern and siamese fighter's 'house' from the main 31G tank and made a make-shift home for the fish for a few days
The set-up
It's been sat on my windowsill and rather cold the past few nights so i've been monitoring the water temperature.
Two or three times per day i've been changing 4 litre's of water for water straight from the main tank (keep PH, temp and water parameters nice).
I might not have done everything by the book, but i've never attempted this before and i don't have cash to throw around on things so i've used stuff that i've got laid around the house. I've been feeding them live daphnia and frozen/thawed brine shrimp
Thursday morning - i caught the female fish and chose the best of my males - brightest colours, healthy, best fin markings, the one that seemed more interested in the female. Put them both in the tank together to settle down
Friday - upped the heat to 27/28C, kept male and female together, watched him dance to her most of the day
Saturday - Made a divider and split the male and female up. Covered the tank with a thick towel on the night.
divider (rather messy hahaha)
This morning (Sunday), last day before i was putting the fish back into the main tank - Uncovered the tank at 10am, replaced two litres of water
I found some eggs in the bottom of the tank an hour later
I don't know if they are fertile or not, but it doesn't matter. It's one step further than i ever expected to be at.
I have put the fish back in to the main tank. The female didn't look as plump as she had and they weren't dancing together anymore and with having a bare bottom tank, i didn't want the eggs to be eaten.
Some eggs have white spots, some are slightly white, some are clear (thinking the clear ones aren't)
Going to the shop to get some infusoria (i belive its called that) and startingsome brine shrimp hatching (got eggs in the fridge already), just in case
I've read about putting some methylene blue in the water so stop fungus on the eggs, but i've already read that it isn't always necessary???
If anyone has any advice / comments then please, feel free. I've never done this before, and even if it fails i plan to try again at another time and will continue to use this thread as a journal
