my knocked up neon!!! tank size and community size

[aninheritedtank]

ok so my neon tetra is V.fat and bobbly so we toddled down to porton and bought a birthing net!!! figured this is the right thing to do as nothing smaller than a tetra would survive my hungry marble molly"Motley" or My 3" loach "Boo" only now after a little research have found out that neons are not live bearers!? and that daddy tetra needs to squirt the eggs! but i don't know how to tell which is male and which is female(we have 4 Neon Tetra) so please can anyone with relevant knowledge help me!
Also need help calculating gallonage of my tank??? tis- 2'x3'x1.5' my maths was never any good!
Also we have - 1x great long yellow snakey loach( would like to know his official
title)
2x marble molly 1m 1f
2x blue guarami
1x blood red plaity
6x guppi
6x black widow m's and f's
4x neon tetra
is this too many

 

[GuppyDude]

well budy this is the livebearer's forum, but i think i can try. most egg layers to my knowledge wont eat their own eggs, so y dont u put them all in the net, or jus leave them in the big tank.

with gallons and crap for ur tank i cant rely help u there..sry

gl

 

[fifefish]

the neons will only not eat there eggs if they are the breeding pair. the rest will have a munch on them no problem.
your loach is probably a kuhli loach ..

 

[Spishkey]

i thought all neons were wild caught as they are so hard to breed in captivity?

 

[fifefish]

no theyre are infact breeding farms and private breeders.

 

[helterskelter]

ok so my neon tetra is V.fat and bobbly so we toddled down to porton and bought a birthing net!!! figured this is the right thing to do as nothing smaller than a tetra would survive my hungry marble molly"Motley" or My 3" loach "Boo" only now after a little research have found out that neons are not live bearers!? and that daddy tetra needs to squirt the eggs! but i don't know how to tell which is male and which is female(we have 4 Neon Tetra) so please can anyone with relevant knowledge help me!
Also need help calculating gallonage of my tank??? tis- 2'x3'x1.5' my maths was never any good!
Also we have - 1x great long yellow snakey loach( would like to know his official
title)
2x marble molly 1m 1f
2x blue guarami
1x blood red plaity
6x guppi
6x black widow m's and f's
4x neon tetra
is this too many

Neons will not produce fry even if they do breed they need special systems for the fry to survive.

i thought all neons were wild caught as they are so hard to breed in captivity?

yes most are farmed in Singapore, if u want breed then u have to work at it. eggs are photosensitive so any light and they die.

 

[LauraFrog]

You will not be able to breed neon tetras with a breeding net in the main tank, they need weeks of conditioning, a special spawning setup with mops and specially treated rainwater, and then the fry need special treatment and raised on rotifers. Unless you have a spare 15 gallon tank, spawning mops, a spare heater and a spare filter, you might be better off trying to breed livebearers. Neons are extremely hard to breed because when they reach their full size (the size they are sold at) they are already past breeding age, you need to get juveniles to attempt breeding. Most people who try to breed neons and fail are trying to breed with fish that are already too old. It's hard to sex neons, the only thing to go on is that females are wider and get fat when well fed, but an overfed male will get fat as well. There is a calculator at the top of the forum for working out the capacity by using the dimensions. I think it is large enough to add a few more fish (I THINK). If you want babies, try platies. They breed really easily with no help from aquarists. And raising hte fry is fun because they are so cute!