To Keep Trying to Breed or not?

[EmmaS]

I breed and sell cpd's all the time. They are the easiest fish to breed after live bearers.
I have five aquariums. When I want to breed them I place them into a small planted 24l aquarium. The bottom is filled with small lava rocks. I leave them in this tank for at least a week. I then take the parents out and simply wait. It's that easy. I absolutely love these fish
I don't even feed the fry in here for about two weeks as there is plenty of things they can find to eat.
Guppy grass is fantastic for fry tanks.
I'm currently raising about 30 fry now.
I have shrimp in every aquarium but zero snails.

 

[EmmaS]

I've actually "bred" beckfordi by giving them a heavily planted single species tank, and feeding them small food. Babies appeared and became adults in time. I had medium hard (ish) water back then. If I could get some now with my current soft water, I'm sure I could have lots of them.

They show something no one wanting to breed should forget. These are not breeds of fish, but are species. What you do with a Nannostomus from one region (let's say beckfordi) and one from another region (trifasciatus, for example) is very different. I had fry show up with beckfordi, but if I try with trifasciatus, I'm playing in a higher league. One size doesn't fit all. That's half the fun. If it were easy, they'd be guppies.

Interesting you had fry from hardish water. I was looking into these but reports say you need soft water to breed them.
My display tank of 125l is home to about 15 cpds. 3 Ottos, cherry shrimp and amanos.
I want one more species and they must be able to breed in Moderately hard water.
I'm leaning towards Vietnamese white clouds but this has put a spanner in the works.
My go to fish shop currently has Beckfordi in stock. I believe they can get aggressive?

 

[seangee]

I really relented to ask.. More than x...

But the process between removing adults and adding cattapa.

Leaf me open to discussion.

What would it do more ?

Haha - Tank has 0KH so adding the leaf will drop the pH and make the water darker in case the embers need convincing that the conditions were perfect. pH was much lower in the tank where I had them previously (<5). No need if they do spawn. I didn't know the pH until tonight because I had nothing to test it with but it is pretty much what I expected. Its RO water mineralised back up to 3dGH (for the shrimp!). I ordered a bag of leaves today in case I did need to drop the pH, and I will need them in the other tank when I try with the pencilfish.

 

[Colin_T]

Swimmerets Are primarily swimming legs, and are also used for brooding the eggs.

Spinnerets Are the organs that produce thread from silkworms and spiders.

your right, I dont know where i got spinnerets from

pleopods or swimmerets is what it was meant to be