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Posted by Elaine T on March 17, 2005, 2:33 am
Please log in for more thread options Richard Sexton wrote:
>>The tank setup sounds easy enough, but after watching the fish I think
>>I'd go with broadleaved plastic or silk plants over java moss. The fish
>>carefully chose only the undersides of broadleaved plants near the
>>waterline for their eggs and totally ignored the java moss in the tank.
>> I guess a spawning grid for falling eggs would be good as well.
>
>
> Just outof curiosity did you have crypts in that tank? The McInnery book
> mentions they could not get glowline rasboras to breen unless they
> juiced some crytpcpryne roots and threw that in.
>
Yep. I'm incapable of planting a tank without crypts. It's my little 5
gallon and has C. wendtii in it. 1 huge green one starting to
propagate, and 3 bronze ones growing like weeds. There are a few
smaller ones around too. The rasboras didn't touch the crypts, though.
The laid on the taller stuff. Maybe if I had balansae they would have
used it.
>
>>It's gonna be tough getting my water down to the pH where the eggs will
>>actually hatch. The tank where the fish were spawning this morning is
>>at pH 7.6 (maxed out my bromthymol blue) and it's already half
>>rainwater. I guess I'd have to use even less tapwater and filter both
>>the display tank and spawning tank over peat. I wonder at what point I
>>would be able to keep the fry in tapwater rather than RO.
>
>
> Take a bucket, half distilled 1/4 tap ad a hand full of peat moss
> wait 2 weeks, carfully siphon it off. This is the magic breeding
> water.
>
Okey dokey. Can do. I guess it's more the magic egg hatching water
than breeding water. ;-)
>>I got a paramecium culture at the aquarium society raffle so I'm fine
>>with food as long as it doesn't crash while I'm gone and I can
>>successfully propagate it.
>
>
> "Gee I can tell from the 8 one gallon glass jars in
> your kitchen you breed fish". Besides crashing the other
> problem is you need to have *enough* paramecium. Several
> cultures works pretty well. Lee Harper's recipe for infusoria
> is 1 dried corn husk and 1 or 2 alfalfa rabbit pellets. The
> latter gives them "fast" food while the corn husk keeps the
> culture going for a long time. Works for months.
>
The one I got is on alfalfa rabbit pellets. I'll hunt down some corn
husks. 8 gallons huh? ROFLMAO.
> You should only need infusoria for 2 weeks I'd guess, but
> depending on the size of the spawn you could end up needing a lot.
Randy's website says that the smaller rasboras he's bred don't lay a lot
of eggs. Hopefully the spawn will be somewhat manageable. I don't have
tank space for hundreds of fish.
> Now you know one of the reaosns I latched on to killies, they
> (pretty much) all take bbs upon hatching ;-)
>
Yeah. I'm a guppy fan myself. You can leave parents in with the kids,
special foods are optional, and breeding is trivial so you can
concentrate on fixing a line. Cichlids are fun too since not only do
they not eat the young, but guard them. Turn off the filter for a bit,
shoot some baby brine into the cloud of fry with a turkey baster, and
all is well. I tried F. gardneri once, but lost the first batch of eggs
to fungus and then the male killed the female so that was that.
But those blasted rasboras just HAD to spawn right in front of me.
*rolls eyes*
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>I've found a site describing egg-less fake spawning runs before the eggs
>are laid and I'm wondering if that's what is happening. Has anyone seen
>T. espei or even T. heteromorpha eggs, and what did they look like?