Determined

[Lynnzer]

I am now into trying to give the best food for the fish I keep. Not only just so they benefit from it directly but I want them in top breeding condition. I'm also planning ahead for any fry, if I get any.
Apart from the frozen bloodworm etc, I want live food for them.
So far I have a couple of really good vinegar eel cultures for any fry if they appear, and a recently bought culture of white-worm that I won't be touching until they heavily populate their box.
I have a brine shrimp rearing kit on the way as i already have plenty of eggs from a previous attempt to rear them, which was wholly unsuccessful.
Apart from that i have seen mention of springtails. Has anyone got experience of these to pass on. There are plenty of youtube videos about rearing them but are they worth adding to the menu?
I also wonder what becomes of them if one or more of them escape the culture box into the home. Do they present any likely difficulties. I visit a LFS that also sells reptiles, frogs etc and nearly always see various insect life wandering about the place that definitely escaped a feed dish.
Oh, the fish.
Mainly small tetra types, Asian Rummynose etc down to Chilli Rasboras and largest Dwarf Neon Rainbowfish but mainly the mid size tetras

 

[Colin_T]

Back to Basics when Breeding Fish

STARTING OUT Make sure you have a pair, (1 male + 1 female). There is nothing worse than spending your hard-earned dollars buying a couple of fish to try and breed and ending up with a pair of fish of the same sex. Let's face it, to reproduce fish you need a male and a female. Two males won't do...

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[GaryE]

The size of your fish matters. Whiteworms or even better, grindal worms can be used a couple of times a week. Springtails, like wingless fruit flies, do get out. I always blame the bananas, but the other humans here are getting suspicious.
Brine shrimp in the kits and tubes are mostly dead cysts. They should be stored frozen and are best bought in half kilo/one poundish cans, at high prices depending on where you are. I pay $85 CAD for excellent Chinese cysts, and it's a fishkeeping major, but it is the best for fish like yours.
How much culturing space do you have, and what's your climate region?