Humm Has Anyone Sucessfuly Bread These Before?

[my fat fish]

well i belive that 1 of my femail dwarf gourmies is pregnant and the male has started making ther famous bubble nest so my tank is looking good lol

ne ways how easy are these to breed i know when the gourmie has the babie you remove the femail strait away and wait about 2-3 days then remove the male anythink else i need to know?

 

[helterskelter]

The thing here is the fry from dawrf's are so small you idearly need to feed microspocic food's like micro worm and vinager eels.

If you want to breed then it cna be done and breeding is relativly easy, I've breed then several times over the years but never raised the fry myself.

what u said about removing the fish is correct as males will defend the nest and sometime mistake the fry as food!!!!!

At day 2-3 after free swimming (5days old)you need feed these micro foods I've said about already.

Then at 8-10 days old you may try newly hatched brine shrimp which is easy to produce, then u can feed brine shrimp totaly intill the fish are an inch long when u get them onto flake foods.

At weeks old the fry start to devlope their laybrinth organ to process air, at this stage u may get stdden death's, the air temp needs to be the same as the water, cos if it's cooler then the difference will chill the fry and kill them.


I know sounds like fun but well worth the try if rearly want to try it.

Helter

 

[my fat fish]

i shall let u know how it gose

 

[geo7x]

You will probably need super small food. When I thought my bumblebee gobies were spawning (tiny fry too) I learnt that infusoria can be a good source of food (there are instructions on loads of sites) and also it sounds dramatic but algae from fish-free lakes can contain some good little critters.

edit: they will probably take the product liqufry too, may be easier lol