How To Breed These

tomo9

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:D hi everyone i have a 35gallon tank with the following fish in
3 bumbble bee gobys
5 neon tetras
5 glowlight tetras
5 zebra danios
1 moonlight gourami
3 swordtails
8 endlers

has any1 got any advice on breeding any of these fish what. specifications do they need?
do any need a seperate tank to breed in?
do i need to add certan features to my tank to make them breed? e.g. more plants,bogwood.


thanks a lot tomo9 :good:
 
just give the endlers some time.ull get fry soon enough.
ur swords probly already have.u just cant find the fry
 
Endlers and swords are livebearers, these will produce fry every 4-5 weeks and will produce between 5-50 at a time.

You can place the fry in to a rearing tank or a breeding trap and after 4-5 months you could them return them to you main tank.

The other fish are a bit more difficualt.
danio's are easy to breed but you would have to think of setting up a breeding tank for any other the other fish.

If you rearly want to breed the danio's the do so searching here there are plenty of posts and I've helped many people befor. just get's annoying retypeing every thing again....

so search and you will find
 
well i've had em quit a wile now and they've always been fine
 
There are several species of bumblebee gobies. One of them will tolerate freshwater quite well. The fact that they are alive suggestes that this is the species tomo9 has, as the brackish only ones tend to fade really quickly in a freshwater tank. (I've been looking into these guys lately.)
 
can we keep the thread normal plz not about bumbble bee gobys
 
As Helter has said, swordtails and endlers (assuming you have females) will breed without much encourgment from you and produce live fry. The only problem is that they may then proceed to eat same fry- as will others in the tank (the gourami springs to mind). So if you want to rear them, you would either need to set up a separate baby tank, or keep the babies in a breeding net for the first few weeks. Note that swordtail fry in particular can only stay in the net for a short period of time or their growth will be stunted. After that, you'll have to let them out. Also note that livebearers will go on having fry every month, even if you separate males and females (females store sperm) so it is easy to get overrun. Fry can be fed crushed flakes.

Danios lay eggs, quite easy to encourage them to do so by feeding them live foods, the only problem is that they and the other fish in the tank will regard the eggs and any hatching fry in the light of a nourishing snack- so the eggs need to be hatched in a separate breeding tank. The eggs are fertilised while they are laid, so you can only get fry if you have male and female together in the tank at the time the eggs are laid, moving an eggbound female on her own won't work (unlike with livebearers). Fry are small and need to be fed liquid fry food or tiny live foods.

The tetras are also egglayers but much harder to breed. They will only spawn if the water is soft and acid, they need to be conditioned first, and I have heard the male and female need to be exactly the right age at least for neons, the eggs have to be protected from other fish (including parents) and from daylight as they are light sensitive. So it's not something that's going to happen in your community tank, you need a special setup.

Not sure what it takes to get the gobies to spawn. And the gourami won't do it on its own. 1
 
I know a request was made to avoid BBG but I feel it necessary to point out that the goby expert Naomi Delventhal (who wrote the chapter on gobies in nmonks's new book) states that the BBG most often traded in the aquarium trade is actually found in freshwater in the wild. She has found they do equally well in either fresh or brackish water.

As far as I understand, identifying BBG down to a species level is not easy without scale,spine and ray counts.
 

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