Dividing A Tank For Breeding

[tenohfive]

I've just picked up a 30x12x15 tank for breeding galaxy rasbora's/celestial pearl danio's. This is going to be my first attempt at breeding, so any advice is appreciated.

What I was thinking of doing was dividing the tank - once one or more of the females are looking pregnant, pop them into the smaller half, and once I see eggs move them back to the normal side.

Does this sound pretty sensible? If so, whats best to use as a divider (and would I need a seperate filter for the fry side?


Thanks
Chris

 

[SJ2K]

Any fine mesh wall will be fine, you can always make your own out of a piece of perspex cut to size and drilled. Provided its got plenty of holes then no you wont need a seperate filter and it should still allow circulation.

Another tip often heard about here when breeding danios is to use large marbles as a substrate, there egg scatterers so when they lay, the eggs fall between the marbles and the mature fish cant get at them.

 

[tenohfive]

Cheers for that - sounds like a novel solution to a problem I was worrying about - going up and down into the loft every 5 minutes when the females are pregant to avoid them going for the eggs once they've dropped.

 

[shelaghfishface]

you can get some plastic canvas( perforated) from a knitting shop that may fit it ,it comes in sheets and you can silicone them togather if you cant get a big enough sheet ,then silicone paper edge sliders to the side of the tank to secure them in

ps, you wont need to go into the shop you can get your mum/wife/granny to go in for you

 

[tenohfive]

Lol. My other half is at her wits end with me and fishkeeping as it is, I reckon trying to convince her to do me a favour for one of my tanks is unlikely.

I'll have a look, sounds ideal.

 

[rocknurworld2006]

Lol. My other half is at her wits end with me and fishkeeping as it is, I reckon trying to convince her to do me a favour for one of my tanks is unlikely.

I'll have a look, sounds ideal.

these will breed in spawning mops then u can either remove the spawning mop or remove them

 

[shelaghfishface]

either way hes due a trip to the knitting shop

 

[tenohfive]

Cheers. I'll do a bit of digging, I've not come across spawning mops before.

 

[rocknurworld2006]

Cheers. I'll do a bit of digging, I've not come across spawning mops before.

i have some good size ones for sale at £1 each
i use these for cpd's

 

[tenohfive]

How much for a couple with postage?

And would you consider selling your 8 babies? I've done a bit of digging, and apparently its about 4 months to maturity.

 

[rocknurworld2006]

How much for a couple with postage?

And would you consider selling your 8 babies? I've done a bit of digging, and apparently its about 4 months to maturity.

pm'd