Help Breeding Rummynose Tetras (firehead Tetras More Likely)

[VidVid]

hey.
Ive got 7 firehead tetras i think (sold as rummynoses) and i presently keep them in my planted 35g. I want to start to breed these tetras but am finding little info on their breeding habits, amount of fry produced and requirements of spawning. Has anyone had experience with breeding this tetra? Can anyone give me a useful site or from personal knowledge of how to succesfully breed this fish. I plan on placing the 7 ive got in a 15g (2'*1'*1') which i will breed them in. I also have a spare 8g growout. The 15g and 8g is densely planted with free-floating java moss.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[n3ont3tra]

http/badmanstropicalfish.com/profiles/profile38.html

scroll down to breeding there's a little bit of info there....

http/fish.mongabay.com/species/Hemigrammus_bleheri.html

that site has more info, way better...

http/www.aquarticles.com/articles/breedi...ose_tetras.html

yet another site with good info. For more, all you have to do is google "breed rummynose tetra". Not that hard.

 

[VidVid]

thanks.
i had a look at some of those before but it does not have a definite answer to the question: how many eggs and possible fry they produce, the right tank size to spawn and how often do they spawn?

 

[The-Wolf]

not a lot is described on their spawning habits, even fishbase is no help except to say
nonguarders open water/substratum egg scatterers

perhaps an email to the main contributor of the fishbase article might bring you the answer
Name: Hoffmann, Peter and Martin
E-Mail: [email protected]

 

[Lateral Line]

Never tried. If I was going to, I'd use the same kind of setup as used for other blackwater fish, Cardinals etc. Very soft, and very acidic, warm peat filtered water with blackwater extract if available. Water of that type is very unstable and you will need a lot of it to do very frequent water changes.

After that, the blackwater species are no more difficult to spawn and raise then other egg scatterers.