Spawning Cardinals :)

[keenonfish]

Hey folks my tank been busy lately First my Cory's, then my BPT's and Now my Cardinals are at it

I managed to get the video camera out this time too...

[URL="http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T1NJUS-uaI"]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T1NJUS-uaI[/URL]

Not sure if any eggs were deposited - having not experienced this before it wasn't clear to me if this was a stage before egg scattering or during?

 

[drobbyb]

Very nice! I don't own cardinals, but that certainly is interesting.

 

[keenonfish]

I have since noticed one of the larger fish (clearly a female, possibly the one being chased here) has also changed colour of the stripe! Looks very slightly different from the side, but when viewed from above there is a golden / orange hue to the stripe!

 

[joshjames]

are they difficult to breed? any special requirements?
im looking to breed something in the near future and seeing as i have 10 of them in my tank ATM

 

[SimoUK]

hmm, first of all congratulations,

my angelfish spawned erlier this week but to no avail,

i wasnt hoping for much with it being in a community tank, and they had spawned on the filter intake pipe, so i couldnt remove them

but i have a question, i have 3 black widow skirt tetra in my 40 gallon tank, and there are two which lately are swimming side-by-side, so close in face that they are pretty much touching side by side, i was wandering if these could be a male and female pair?

 

[keenonfish]

hmm, first of all congratulations,

my angelfish spawned erlier this week but to no avail,

i wasnt hoping for much with it being in a community tank, and they had spawned on the filter intake pipe, so i couldnt remove them

but i have a question, i have 3 black widow skirt tetra in my 40 gallon tank, and there are two which lately are swimming side-by-side, so close in face that they are pretty much touching side by side, i was wandering if these could be a male and female pair?

Not sure mate. My BPT's swim side by side / flair and most of the time it is a territorial thing but then males females do this. However I would say the difference it that when territorial they tend to stay in the same area but when courting they tend to move around the tank a lot!