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[Truck]

yes i wass looking at them do u have any tips?

 

[Jazzzz]

I last kept and bread them about 5 years ago and that was totaly by accident I am afraid. I simply had 10 in a tank with a few live plants and no heater, gravel substrate and a bubble filter, i fed the fry liquifry and the parents didn't eat them if i rember right.

I bought 3 new ones about 2 months ago but nothing has happened yet.

 

[Truck]

oh cool i might buy 10 or so this after noon

 

[Jazzzz]

pets at home do 10 for £9 i think

they were in the kitchen so it was warm, the 3 i have now are on sand with a heater same filter though.

 

[Truck]

but with 10 i spose i have a better chance of getting both sexes

 

[Jazzzz]

would be unlucky to only end up with one sex

will let u know if my 3 breed for me

 

[minxfishy]

Truck bit of info for you:

White Clouds are often bred in the aquarium, but the water needs to be cool – between 68F and 72F. They are best spawned by introducing a single pair to a spawning aquarium; the males are much thinner than the females, who become conspicuously fatter when ready to spawn. The spawning tank should be heavily planted, and a layer of marbles on the bottom is a good idea. This décor is not particularly for the benefit of the fish, but to ensure that at least a few eggs fall in a safe hiding place from the parents depredations, who will be hungry after spawning; they should be removed as soon as possible to ensure that some eggs remain! As up to three hundred eggs can be scattered by the parents, enough should survive for the aquarist to rear. The tiny fry will hatch 36 hours later, and can be fed on fine food – infusoria or green water is good as a first food, or a proprietary egg-layers fry food.


So you will need to keep a close eye on them because with plecs in there, those eggs will be gone very quickly.

Thats why I suggested gourami's as you can tell easily when they have spawned.

 

[Jazzzz]

Truck bit of info for you:

White Clouds are often bred in the aquarium, but the water needs to be cool – between 68F and 72F. They are best spawned by introducing a single pair to a spawning aquarium; the males are much thinner than the females, who become conspicuously fatter when ready to spawn. The spawning tank should be heavily planted, and a layer of marbles on the bottom is a good idea. This décor is not particularly for the benefit of the fish, but to ensure that at least a few eggs fall in a safe hiding place from the parents depredations, who will be hungry after spawning; they should be removed as soon as possible to ensure that some eggs remain! As up to three hundred eggs can be scattered by the parents, enough should survive for the aquarist to rear. The tiny fry will hatch 36 hours later, and can be fed on fine food – infusoria or green water is good as a first food, or a proprietary egg-layers fry food.


So you will need to keep a close eye on them because with plecs in there, those eggs will be gone very quickly.

Thats why I suggested gourami's as you can tell easily when they have spawned.

that would explain why mine bread years ago, as they had no hetaer and there were only wcmm in the tank then I only had 3 young make adulthoud though.

 

[Truck]

so what would you recomend temperature wise?

 

[minxfishy]

As low as can be tolerated by your other fish would seem the best way to go.

 

[Jazzzz]

maybe 20 degrees c they go inactive at 13 degrees so you could experiment lower than 20 if you wanted to.

 

[minxfishy]

Thats gonna be low for the plecs and others though, I wouldnt drop it below the 72 if I were you.

Whatever you decide to do, drop the temp slowly over a couple of days for the other fish.

 

[Jazzzz]

buy a new tan tank for the wcmm start at £15 at pets at home would make life better for your other fish and greatly improve the chance of babies

 

[minxfishy]

yeah new tank is always the way to go.

Any excuse in my opinion

 

[Truck]

cant go for the new tank