ClownLurch
Fish Gatherer
Cheers.The success rate should be high sometimes it can go the opposite way depending on many factors for one example there may be more eggs turning fungus than usual.
it's good news that you have found some long fins there not often available from local fish shops if and when they do come readily available chances are they will be related.
I personally do not worry if they're related or not either way you should be able to produce good quality fish if you are thinking of breeding the ones that you have I would suggest to let them flock breed, pick out your best male and female and breed them back together always remove any deformed fish when a new stock becomes available you can then add new blood if needed.
To bring out the best colour in fish they should receive natural daylight and live food added to there diet. live food is the most natural food that you can give a fish I feed my fish a good quality flake food and i regulatory feed a variety of live foods atm I have number of juvenile White Clouds which are fed daily on daphnia, some of my live food cultures 2 of my water butts I have daphnia available all year round. and micro worms and vinegar eels are very good foods for egg-laying fry, last pick vinegar eels the smallest of the nematodes that we feed to our fish
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I managed to get my hands on three pairs of long fins a couple of weeks back. They’ve been in QT for two weeks now and will be going in main tank alongside 4 guppies next weekend. (Would’ve been today but govt permitting I’m away for a couple of days this week).
Im gonna order another six online midweek so what sort of M/F ratio would you recommend on top of the 3M/3F I have now?
I’m gonna try breeding em once the tanks settled and my two QT tanks are empty.