kat and james
Fishaholic
for anyone who read my post a few weeks ago, you'll know that we have observed some odd behaviour in our silver dollars, vibrating against each other, and things like that, also some colour change in the male (we thought he'd hurt himself, but apparently it is normal). just decided to take a look on google, and see waht info came up.. and i found this.. thought others would be interested also!
I haven't found much on the web about silver dollar breeding, my pair have just had babies so here's some info: The time of year here in New Zealand is early spring (Sept) which apparently is a good time for fish to start their breeding. My male started getting a very dark edge to his tail and also top fin, 2 dark spots appeared on his side about the size of a thumbnail and he got an orangy red patch around the bottom of his gills. He would chase the female around alot and frequently would join his bottom half with hers and wrap is bottom fin under her and jiggle for a couple of seconds. I changed them to my other tank by themselves when I saw this. Just under a week later I noticed small fry swimming around, I can only count about 15. I've read that the eggs fall from her in between the gravel and hatch there but I didn't see this. Although I did notice dark long things on the wall of the tank that looks like small patches of algae about the same size of the babies so she might have stuck them there? They all swim separately not in a group and feed off the algae in the tank, I bought some fry food but they don't really feed from the surface so Im hoping that it will be a OK diet until they get bigger. Their size is about 5mm long and 2mm high. Apparently also they make good parents and don't eat their young but I put a large leaf of lettuce in there every second day, weighting it down with a peg just in case they get too hungry. I've kept the water temp at 26C and the pH level is around 6.6 to 6.2. When cleaning the tank I would recommend no vigorous movement and do only slight changes in water every week. I hope this helps anyone wanting to breed their silver dollars. I've had mine for over a year and they've only just started doing this.
we have just bought another new tank (at 4 now) so maybe i will convince james to set up the new one as a purely silver dollar environment!!! and we could get some babies!!!!!
kat
I haven't found much on the web about silver dollar breeding, my pair have just had babies so here's some info: The time of year here in New Zealand is early spring (Sept) which apparently is a good time for fish to start their breeding. My male started getting a very dark edge to his tail and also top fin, 2 dark spots appeared on his side about the size of a thumbnail and he got an orangy red patch around the bottom of his gills. He would chase the female around alot and frequently would join his bottom half with hers and wrap is bottom fin under her and jiggle for a couple of seconds. I changed them to my other tank by themselves when I saw this. Just under a week later I noticed small fry swimming around, I can only count about 15. I've read that the eggs fall from her in between the gravel and hatch there but I didn't see this. Although I did notice dark long things on the wall of the tank that looks like small patches of algae about the same size of the babies so she might have stuck them there? They all swim separately not in a group and feed off the algae in the tank, I bought some fry food but they don't really feed from the surface so Im hoping that it will be a OK diet until they get bigger. Their size is about 5mm long and 2mm high. Apparently also they make good parents and don't eat their young but I put a large leaf of lettuce in there every second day, weighting it down with a peg just in case they get too hungry. I've kept the water temp at 26C and the pH level is around 6.6 to 6.2. When cleaning the tank I would recommend no vigorous movement and do only slight changes in water every week. I hope this helps anyone wanting to breed their silver dollars. I've had mine for over a year and they've only just started doing this.
we have just bought another new tank (at 4 now) so maybe i will convince james to set up the new one as a purely silver dollar environment!!! and we could get some babies!!!!!
kat
