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I have read how easy it apparently is to breed these little fish...so I'm going to try it and see what happens. Only there are a couple of potential problems:
The neons were already in the tank when I bought the white clouds. The swordtail and the zebra danio were surprise survivors from my daughter's tank which I had assumed was devoid of fish and were discovered as the tank was being emptied (there was very little water in it. Since they made it through so much difficulty I want them to live on in a better environment. So I transferred them to my 29 gallon tank.
The neons seem pretty much sedate and are small to begin with (I am pretty sure they were stunted in their growth when I bought them a while back). The zebra danio seems to think he is a white cloud now and swims with the school as there are no other zebra danios in the tank for him/her to run with.
A big concern is the swordtail. I want to use that fish and the zebra danio to cycle my 10 gallon tank which I plan on using for breeding white clouds also. I know that a fully grown swordtail would make mincemeat of white cloud fry.
And I am not so sure about those ramshorn snails and what they would do to white cloud eggs and babies who arent free swimming yet. Not sure if I should try to eliminate them (It would be very difficult and tedious I expect). But I have heard mixed things concerning them----some say they are harmless and some say they will annhialate fish eggs.
The maintenance tank is kind of being handled as a "law of the jungle" type situation----survival of the fittest so to speak. If I get white cloud babies to survive in that with the other fish in there then they are just that----true survivors.
The 10 gallon tank is more of a "plan B" in case I have no success.
Do you think I will have surviving white cloud babies in the 29 gallon despite its other occupants? There are 10 white clouds in there and I may add another 10 to have a nice sized shoal--but I don't want to overcrowd.
I do have a 125 gallon tank which is the ultimate final destination of a lot of these should I have success. I am getting rid of the cichlids. I prefer more docile fish. And large amounts of them at that.
- There are 2 neon tetras, a zebra danio, and a swordtail in the maintenance tank
- The maintenance tank has an established population of ramshorn snails.
The neons were already in the tank when I bought the white clouds. The swordtail and the zebra danio were surprise survivors from my daughter's tank which I had assumed was devoid of fish and were discovered as the tank was being emptied (there was very little water in it. Since they made it through so much difficulty I want them to live on in a better environment. So I transferred them to my 29 gallon tank.
The neons seem pretty much sedate and are small to begin with (I am pretty sure they were stunted in their growth when I bought them a while back). The zebra danio seems to think he is a white cloud now and swims with the school as there are no other zebra danios in the tank for him/her to run with.
A big concern is the swordtail. I want to use that fish and the zebra danio to cycle my 10 gallon tank which I plan on using for breeding white clouds also. I know that a fully grown swordtail would make mincemeat of white cloud fry.
And I am not so sure about those ramshorn snails and what they would do to white cloud eggs and babies who arent free swimming yet. Not sure if I should try to eliminate them (It would be very difficult and tedious I expect). But I have heard mixed things concerning them----some say they are harmless and some say they will annhialate fish eggs.
The maintenance tank is kind of being handled as a "law of the jungle" type situation----survival of the fittest so to speak. If I get white cloud babies to survive in that with the other fish in there then they are just that----true survivors.
The 10 gallon tank is more of a "plan B" in case I have no success.
Do you think I will have surviving white cloud babies in the 29 gallon despite its other occupants? There are 10 white clouds in there and I may add another 10 to have a nice sized shoal--but I don't want to overcrowd.
I do have a 125 gallon tank which is the ultimate final destination of a lot of these should I have success. I am getting rid of the cichlids. I prefer more docile fish. And large amounts of them at that.
