My silver tip tetra is full of eggs, I don't have a breeding tank, which is something I'd like to invest in. Woud it be ok to devide a part of my tank off and put her and the male in there and then take them out when they have spawned. I just know its hard to breed them and it seems to let the oportunity go to waste, Otherwise the eggs are going to end up a tasty snack for the algae eater, guppies and other tetras.
Silver Tip Tetra Breeding
- Thread starter Gemmylou
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Jazzzz
Fish Addict
be far easier to buy a cheap tank and filter a small tank will costyou from as little as £14.99 from pets at home for 6gallon and filters start at just £8 heaters are about £8 to. sand £2.50 argos (playsand) Plants 3 for £5 pets at home, wood £5 from pets as well total about £43 running and ready
Jazzzz
Fish Addict
yes but they will eat any eggs they find so marbles at the bottom is good, You may as well invest in the best tank possibl but yes a large plastic storage box would work fine as well, most even come with lids
Jazzzz
Fish Addict
£5 plastic tub
£8 heater
£8 filter
£2 pack of marbels
£23 is about as cheap as you could do it
£8 heater
£8 filter
£2 pack of marbels
£23 is about as cheap as you could do it
will keep everyone posted on progess StatMan
Fish Crazy
Gemmylou
Any update on the Tetras?
Interested as I am thinking of trying to get my group of 6 breeding.
StatMan
Any update on the Tetras?
Interested as I am thinking of trying to get my group of 6 breeding.
StatMan
Truck
UKAPS
make your own filter! save you 8 quid
saz326
Fish Herder
Spawned mine on Tuesday, and today had 36 wrigglers.... not that I could count that accurately.
Bare bottomed tank, few weighted-down fine leaved plants and a short air curtain for oxygen and slight water circulation.
Shall be feeding them this evening with the finest of fine foods. They are so tiny!
Statman - how many females and males you got in that group of six? Seen them chasing each other and "bumping" into each others sides?
Bare bottomed tank, few weighted-down fine leaved plants and a short air curtain for oxygen and slight water circulation.
Shall be feeding them this evening with the finest of fine foods. They are so tiny!
Statman - how many females and males you got in that group of six? Seen them chasing each other and "bumping" into each others sides?
StatMan
Fish Crazy
I have found it very hard to sex them, there is one that came with the tank slightly bigger than the other 5 I got to get up to a reasonable number. its a 60L tank with a few other mates.
I know the anal fin is meant to be a different colour between the sexes but I can not differentiate them unless I have a batch of all one sex. But they weer not labelled as a specific sex in the LFS when I got them.
They tend to be loners but stay close by each other if that makes sense, not shoaling but a losely attached group.
I'll watch them a bit tomorrow as they are in my home office and I will be working from home, very peacful when on long conference calls!
They do seem to play but can;t say I have noticed bumping! Mine are quite a pale colour but I have seen some in a LFS which specialises in local or UK bred ones some that have a much deeper colour.
StatMan
saz326
Fish Herder
Hmm. The males and females are not just tell-apartable from finnage. There is major colour difference when mature. The males are more orange, where the females are a pale colour.
http
/www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_silvertip.php
The photo isn't great but you can see a male on the left showing orange skin colouration. The fish in the middle is showing the pale colouration of females. The others in the photo have been washed out too much by the flash of the camera.
What is your water temp? Wonder if the tamp of your tank may be slightly low and not stimulate breeding.
Used a pippette to remove the fry from the breeding tank yesterday - and it took me AGES!! removed close to 100 fry. I wonder how many will make it to larger size. Removed them so that I could give the plastic tank a good clean. There were some eggs that developed fungus, so I wanted to remove these preventing the fish from getting the fungus.
Perhaps you could post photos of your fish so I could have a look, see If I could sex them for you.
http
/www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_silvertip.phpThe photo isn't great but you can see a male on the left showing orange skin colouration. The fish in the middle is showing the pale colouration of females. The others in the photo have been washed out too much by the flash of the camera.
What is your water temp? Wonder if the tamp of your tank may be slightly low and not stimulate breeding.
Used a pippette to remove the fry from the breeding tank yesterday - and it took me AGES!! removed close to 100 fry. I wonder how many will make it to larger size. Removed them so that I could give the plastic tank a good clean. There were some eggs that developed fungus, so I wanted to remove these preventing the fish from getting the fungus.
Perhaps you could post photos of your fish so I could have a look, see If I could sex them for you.
StatMan
Fish Crazy
Hmm. The males and females are not just tell-apartable from finnage. There is major colour difference when mature. The males are more orange, where the females are a pale colour.
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The photo isn't great but you can see a male on the left showing orange skin colouration. The fish in the middle is showing the pale colouration of females. The others in the photo have been washed out too much by the flash of the camera.
What is your water temp? Wonder if the tamp of your tank may be slightly low and not stimulate breeding.
Used a pippette to remove the fry from the breeding tank yesterday - and it took me AGES!! removed close to 100 fry. I wonder how many will make it to larger size. Removed them so that I could give the plastic tank a good clean. There were some eggs that developed fungus, so I wanted to remove these preventing the fish from getting the fungus.
Perhaps you could post photos of your fish so I could have a look, see If I could sex them for you.
Saz
Will get some photos tomorrow, lights out now. Thanks for your offer.
I wonder if I have a batch of females as they are definitely a lighter colour than some of the ones I saw in a local LFS the other week.
StatMan
StatMan
Fish Crazy
OK a bit later than intended other jobs got in the way!
could not find a way to upload pictures to this thread so I posted in members tanks:
http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showto...=0#entry2302882
The pictures aren't brilliant but the best I can do in the 100K size.
If you need higher quality I will look to get them up externally.
The darker one in the second picture is the orgingla slightly darker and older one.
If you can spot any gender with them I would appreciate it or at least more pointers to looking for myself. I have read many articles but still can't to differentiate these guys or gals!
StatMan
could not find a way to upload pictures to this thread so I posted in members tanks:
http
/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showto...=0#entry2302882The pictures aren't brilliant but the best I can do in the 100K size.
If you need higher quality I will look to get them up externally.
The darker one in the second picture is the orgingla slightly darker and older one.
If you can spot any gender with them I would appreciate it or at least more pointers to looking for myself. I have read many articles but still can't to differentiate these guys or gals!
StatMan
You Can Buy Plastic Floating Breeding thanks in pets at hime for about £5 and they have an egg protection bottom.
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