Neon Tetras

[nakomis90]

heya looking to find out if anybody has bred or knows how to breed neon tetras
i have 12 and would love to breed them and the guppies

 

[omega59]

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equipment needed.
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10 gallon aqaurium
baby neon food;live brine
rain water (if possible)
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Requirements
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water at 75 to 78°f for spawning
7.0 ph level
still water before spawning
no gravel; expecially sand
no snails, for they eat eggs
foilage (meaning plants)

The breeding tank should be clean of everyhing except a single foliage (plant). Some aquarist think it's ok to keep snails in the breeding tank. This is not true. Snails are scavenders. They eat eggs. Before putting the parents in the breeding tank, the water should be stertilized by boiling for twenty minutes. This will kill any bacteria in the water (stertilizes). The pH should be as close as you can get to 7.0. The water temputer should be 75-78°f for the spawing. Rain water would be the best for this is you can gather it. Once you choose the male and female put the into the breeding tank. Female being round in comparison to the slim male. Refer to Fish Facts for help. Use a dim light or cover the aquarium with a sheet to dim the sun's light. If your lucky, they'll start breeding the next morning. The eggs are about the size of a grain of sand and practically invisable. This is why you can't have gravel or sand. The eggs fall at random and will be lost if fallen on any gravel. Once the spawning is over and the eggs are laid, the female should be removed first for she will eat them. The male will chase here around the tank to prevent this. Have plenty of brine shrimp ready for the offspring will hatch the next day or in 36 hours.

 

[Amerce]

If the eggs of tetra's are that small surely bbs is much too large for them, infusoria would be better for first hatchings and then possibly vinegar eels and then finally microworm and bbs.

I'm breeding the galaxy rasboras and their fry are tiny, easy to catch with a medicine pipette as they are helpless initially and they are much too small for bbs initially.

 

[Alistriwen]

Mature, growing clumps of java moss make an excellent source of microorganisms for tiny fry to munch on. My rosy barb fry survived entirely off that until they were large enough to eat bbs.

 

[Lateral Line]

Neons, the "recipe" above is flawed in many respects, difficult to know where to start in fact. Neons are not an easy fish to breed, rather they are, but the conditions required are difficult to maintain. They require almost no hardness in the water for the eggs to hatch, and such water is very unstable.

The fry when they emerge after around 24 hours will be consuming their egg sac and do not require feeding until free swimming, after 5-7 days, adding food earlier will pollute the tank and kill the fry. Infusoria or a good quality liquid food is essential, BBS are, as posted above, FAR to large. The original author of that description has not bred Neons.

Guppies, just add water and wait.