neon fry

[sushi]

Hi, i'm planning on trying to breed some neons.
I've read that you can feed them "strained egg yolk"
Has anyone done this. It's a lot cheaper option. Do you cook the yolk or just put it in raw???
Can I just feed them crushed tropical fish flakes? or do they need proper fry food. What other stuff can I feed them?
Do they like green stuff. I've read that fish like crushed peas, which i do, would it be ok for fry?

Any advice would be really appreciated as I'd love to breed these little fishies!!!

 

[Lateral Line]

To feed egg yolk, you hard boil it then wrap a small piece in a fine cloth which you swish about in the water to form a small cloud. The correct food is infusoria for the first few days then newly hatched brine shrimp. You can buy special food for egglayer fry, "Liquifry" is one I use.

Crumbling flake is rarely any good, you can't crumble it fine enough and the larger uneaten pieces just pollute the tank quickly, same is true of egg yolk. As I said in the other thread. Neons are difficult to breed because they require such clean and in small tanks, unstable conditions. It is easy to pollute the tank.

Crushed peas are to large for small barb/characin fry, although probbably less harmful then overdosing with flake or egg.

If you have never bred an egglayer before, you will not appreciate how small the fry are when they first hatch, or how difficult they can be to feed. Do not look at a new born guppy and assume a newly hatch barb or characin is going to be like that.

Up to you of course, but if you want to breed egglayers, you couldn't of started with a much more difficult species.

 

[sushi]

sorry, i feel like a pain in the butt asking all these questions. )
What would be an easier egg layer to breed. YOu said in the other thread that black widows are easier that barbs etc. Would they be better to start with? If not, do you mind reccommending one . This is really interesting to me and I'd like to make it a serious hobby.

 

[Lateral Line]

Of the three species you mention, the Black Widows will be the easiest. They don't require as precise water conditions as the other 2, and the fry are a little larger and more robust when it comes to water conditions. A few days with Liquifry or egg will help, but many of the fry will be large enough to take newly hatched brine shrimp straight as soon as they are ready to feed.

Apart from the body shape, (females deeper and wider, the males tend to have somewhat longer and more pointed fins, particulaly the dorsal.

You should maybe practice hatching brine shrimp before you get to the point where you need them. How you do that depends on what type of eggs you can get. The shell less eggs are much easier to use, but are more expensive.

If you were going to start egglayer breeding for the first time, I would have recommended Zebra Danios - they breed very easily.