Iāve mixed my tap water with Reverse osmosis water and got my Gh to 0 and my kH is around 80ppm so around 4.5 dKh. Iāve got my pH to 6.3-6.5
Would a piece of drift wood do just as good a job as the peat?
Itās a 20 gallon aquarium with LED, should I cover a lot of the LEDs and leave a few or leave them in complete darkness?
Iām hoping to buy some brine shrimp eggs for the adults because I already have freeze dried blood worms. Iām beginning to culture infusoria for the fry once they hatch.
Let me know what I can improve on, thanks!
I would use straight R/O water. You want 0 GH, 0 KH and a low pH. Your pH and GH are fine, but you need to get rid of the KH for breeding them.
Driftwood can release tannins and it does work. However, it depends on the actual piece of driftwood. Some driftwood takes a long time to release tannins, whereas peat will release tannins within hours of being put into water. If you have a safe piece of driftwood that turns the water brown in a few days, then use that.
You don't want any light units on the breeding tank. No light should get on the eggs otherwise they won't develop. Put the fish into a breeding tank that has the back and sides blacked out and no light unit on that tank. Leave the front uncovered while the adults are in the breeding tank but cover the front after the adults have been removed.
Brineshrimp eggs need to be hatched before you can feed the nauplii (baby brineshrimp) to the fish. You hatch them in salt water.
The following link has information about hatching brineshrimp eggs and culturing food for baby fish.
STARTING OUT Make sure you have a pair, (1 male + 1 female). There is nothing worse than spending your hard-earned dollars buying a couple of fish to try and breed and ending up with a pair of fish of the same sex. Let's face it, to reproduce fish you need a male and a female. Two males won't do...
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