Breeding Egg Scatterers?

[coolie]

Breeding egg scatterers?
 
Does anyone have any useful info on timing moving egg scatterers to a breeding tank to spawn. With Rosy Barbs, you can see when the males are ready
because they turn bright red, but what about the females?
 
Obviously it's quite a bit of effort to acclimatise and release them in a breeding tank, to leave them until morning in the hopes there are eggs. Or do you move them and move them back when you see the eggs.
If that is the case, do you have to spot the eggs first and then separate the adults back to the community tank.
 
These Barbs have a hellish appetite and I don't think the eggs will be around for more than a few seconds so probably have to get up at the crack of dawn, excuse the expression.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

Might be easier to just keep them in the breeding tank, with marbles as the substrate, and move them out after they spawn.  The marbles allow the eggs to fall into places the fish can't eat them - while also allowing a fair amount of flow through there also.

 

[coolie]

Hi yes, read about the marbles thing growing up. While I do have a separate breeding tank, it also has plants in it.
I guess I'm trying to breed fish in display tanks and don't really want my living room to look like an experiment from the film Frankenstein's monster.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

Not sure how that would work, but I understand your dilemma.