Breeding In Your Main Tank?

[blendingshadow]

Just wondering...If space is an issue and you've only got one large tank; do people actually use the floating breeding 'pens'?

All the videos I have seen are people using seperate tanks with all the gear.

I have 13 zebra danios and some of the females are pregnant and being chased by the males in the tank.

 

[mhancock]

Just wondering...If space is an issue and you've only got one large tank; do people actually use the floating breeding 'pens'?

All the videos I have seen are people using seperate tanks with all the gear.

I have 13 zebra danios and some of the females are pregnant and being chased by the males in the tank.

I've tried the floating pen but not successfully - either the fish was not pregnant in the first place, or the stress of the pen was too much. It was helpful when I got a female guppy fry by mistake from the LFS with some males, the fry was tiny and would almost certainly have been eaten by the Angels if I had not had the pen. She is now in the other tank and will hopefully mate in a couple of months when she is old enough!

 

[Man of fish]

I'm pretty sure you won't be able to breed the danios. It's just one of those very difficult to breed in captivity fish.

 

[wirralbull]

danioes breed readily in aquariums

 

[Fishy friend2]

Danios are actually easy fish to breed. Very easy. But you usually can't attain it in a community aquarium setup. You would need a setup along the lines of a glass marble bottom. 8 danios, atleast 3 females. Dim lighting, and heavy ground cover.

 

[Man of fish]

Oh I read it was hard........ Don't know where.....

 

[Fishy friend2]

Nope, not at all. Possibly you were reading about the difficultly breeding them In a community setting

 

[Man of fish]

Maybe

 

[blendingshadow]

So using the own wouldn't work?

Should I just get a really small tank with sponge filter etc?

 

[Fishy friend2]

What type of fish a you considering in raising and breeding. Danios? If so then you should ideally do tons of research on breeding them, as it's a bit more complicate than you think.... For any type of fish

 

[blendingshadow]

Yeah trying to gather ad much info as possible. I would like to try breeding my danios.

I also have 3 three spot gourmai's and the tank is 450L.

 

[CezzaXV]

You don't necessarily need a special tank to do it in. Any decent sized container you can fit a heater and a filter in will do, even if the filter is just a cheap sponge one. I got a sponge filter from eBay for £1.68! I keep the sponge in my filter so it's ready to go if the need arises, whether for a fry tank, quarantine tank, whatever.

 

[creeker]

Back in the day, they used to make long, low tanks just for breeding. Not sure if they still do.