breeading fish

[Justice]

Hi all, I am thinking of trying to bread my glowlight tetras, I am new
to fishkeeping so any help would be aprecheiated. I am having problems
trying to tell apart the sexes I have 3 fish 1 seems to be a little
slimmer than the other 2 but the difrence is small, could this be a
male? are there any other ways to tell? also I have hard alkaline water
@ the moment. but they are going to be moved into my yoyo loach tank. my
ph is @ 7.2 not shure of the hardnes i will check and post it. I have
sesiflora as plants. I have accsess to a 5gal for a breeding tank. How
should I set it up when needed. also I'm thinking of getting a few more
to help my chances.

TIA

[David Zopf]

"Justice" > wrote in message
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> Hi all, I am thinking of trying to bread *(sic) my glowlight tetras,

I'd reccommend drying well with paper towels before applying a light egg
wash, the breading will stick a lot better...

Sorry. I'm in that kind of a goofy mood Friday...

DZ
AW

[Marco Schwarz]

Hi..

> Hi all, I am thinking of trying to bread my glowlight
> tetras,

Sorry, no good idea.. ;-)

> I am new to fishkeeping

Well, sometimes I remember these times.. ;-)

> so any help would be
> aprecheiated.

Of course. Help to get a stable tank, help to keep your fish
in acceptable water and in an acceptable tank, help to make
your tank(s) stable and free of diseases.

> I have accsess to a 5gal for a breeding tank.

Please.., Justice.. ;-))

--
cu
Marco

[§tudz]

"Justice" > wrote in message
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> Hi all, I am thinking of trying to bread my glowlight tetras, I am new to
> fishkeeping so any help would be aprecheiated. I am having problems trying
> to tell apart the sexes I have 3 fish 1 seems to be a little slimmer than
> the other 2 but the difrence is small, could this be a male? are there any
> other ways to tell? also I have hard alkaline water @ the moment. but they
> are going to be moved into my yoyo loach tank. my ph is @ 7.2 not shure of
> the hardnes i will check and post it. I have sesiflora as plants. I have
> accsess to a 5gal for a breeding tank. How should I set it up when needed.
> also I'm thinking of getting a few more to help my chances.
>
> TIA

I think tetra are EXTREMELY hard to breed, as their eggs are
photo-sensitive, and mostly die.

I would imagine you need a heavily planted tank, with NO other fish apart
from a large shoal of the tetras, you will need some floating plants to
block out the light.

your should try with platies or mollies as your fish fish to breed, or
bronze cory, my cories have bred several times, without much intervention.
And I've only been in the hobby 12months.

§tudz

oh and LOL @ Davids comment, but harsh, very harsh!

[Steve]

Justice wrote:
> Hi all, I am thinking of trying to bread my glowlight tetras, I am new
> to fishkeeping so any help would be aprecheiated. I am having problems
> trying to tell apart the sexes I have 3 fish 1 seems to be a little
> slimmer than the other 2 but the difrence is small, could this be a
> male? are there any other ways to tell? also I have hard alkaline water
> @ the moment. but they are going to be moved into my yoyo loach tank. my
> ph is @ 7.2 not shure of the hardnes i will check and post it. I have
> sesiflora as plants. I have accsess to a 5gal for a breeding tank. How
> should I set it up when needed. also I'm thinking of getting a few more
> to help my chances.
>
> TIA
I don't know about tetras but white clouds breed without anything
special, and don't eat all their young. Keep a group of them in a
planted aquarium and you'll have babies - perhaps best to use a sponge
filter or a sponge cover over filter intake so babies aren't filtered
out of the aquarium.
Steve

[Justice]

Marco Schwarz wrote:
> Hi..
>
>
>>Hi all, I am thinking of trying to bread my glowlight
>>tetras,
>
>
> Sorry, no good idea.. ;-)
>
>
>>I am new to fishkeeping
>
>
> Well, sometimes I remember these times.. ;-)
>
>
>>so any help would be
>>aprecheiated.
>
>
> Of course. Help to get a stable tank, help to keep your fish
> in acceptable water and in an acceptable tank, help to make
> your tank(s) stable and free of diseases.
>
>
>>I have accsess to a 5gal for a breeding tank.
>
>
> Please.., Justice.. ;-))
>
I'm unshur of what you are trying to say? I have 2 stable tanks one of
witch has been established for over 5 years. I also have a new tank that
I am establishing for my clown loaches as I have them in a 10 gal tank.
i was told they grow slowly HA they have trippled thie size in 4 months.
I really like my glowlights so I want to try and breed them. I have a
great intrest in fish as I remeber the manny tanks my father had. I am
not new to fishkeeping but new to the practical part. If that makes sence?

[NetMax]

"Justice" > wrote in message
news:lmbAf.111448$km.66772@edtnps89...
> Hi all, I am thinking of trying to bread my glowlight tetras, I am new
> to fishkeeping so any help would be aprecheiated. I am having problems
> trying to tell apart the sexes I have 3 fish 1 seems to be a little
> slimmer than the other 2 but the difrence is small, could this be a
> male? are there any other ways to tell? also I have hard alkaline water
> @ the moment. but they are going to be moved into my yoyo loach tank.
> my ph is @ 7.2 not shure of the hardnes i will check and post it. I
> have sesiflora as plants. I have accsess to a 5gal for a breeding tank.
> How should I set it up when needed. also I'm thinking of getting a few
> more to help my chances.
>
> TIA

Your post topic should be 'breeding tetras', as some fish are very easy
to breed (just add water) and others are still impossible today, with the
rest somewhere in-between. Tetras can be very challenging to breed, and
sometimes you have the most success by not trying ;~). I bred Kuhlii
loaches until I read how difficult it was to do. Then I couldn't do it
again.

Glowlights spawn in fairly typical tetra fashion (egg scattering amongst
fine-leafed plants, mosses etc), and they are not very hard to sex when
conditioned (female obviously heavier with eggs, male more slender). You
only need one pair, and it might be better to only have the one pair in
the spawning tank as they will eat their eggs (and more fish would eat
the eggs faster). You would need to familiarize yourself with how to
condition them (live foods etc), then what spawning triggers to try
(water acidity, softness, light duration, temperature etc), the types of
plants (furry ones), observe them carefully for the right time (if the
males start chasing and butting the female, you don't have much time
left), have a breeding tank ready (5g is ok, but must be soft acidic
water (got any peat moss and RO or DI water?) with lots of bushy plant
cover), be ready to pull them out after they are finished laying the eggs
(several hours), and have a culture or other size-appropriate foods ready
about 4 days later (they hatch in a day, but will not need food for 2-3
days while on their yolk-sacs.

It's a little ambition to try, but not overly complicated is you do a bit
of research and preparation. However, you're being ready for them to
spawn does not provide any certainty that they will cooperate, and unlike
many other less-demanding fish, tetras will generally not compromise
their requirements, so you have to get their tiny fish-brains to think
that the conditions are to their liking, and that is where much of the
challenge lies.
--
www.NetMax.tk

[Altum]

Justice wrote:
> Hi all, I am thinking of trying to bread my glowlight tetras, I am new
> to fishkeeping so any help would be aprecheiated. I am having problems
> trying to tell apart the sexes I have 3 fish 1 seems to be a little
> slimmer than the other 2 but the difrence is small, could this be a
> male? are there any other ways to tell? also I have hard alkaline water
> @ the moment. but they are going to be moved into my yoyo loach tank. my
> ph is @ 7.2 not shure of the hardnes i will check and post it. I have
> sesiflora as plants. I have accsess to a 5gal for a breeding tank. How
> should I set it up when needed. also I'm thinking of getting a few more
> to help my chances.
>
> TIA

Here's some references.
http://fish.mongabay.com/species/Hemigrammus_erythrozonus.html
http://www.thekrib.com/Fish/tetras.html#1

You will probably need more fish, lots of peat, and DI or RO water.

[Marco Schwarz]

Hi..

>>>I am new to fishkeeping
> I have 2 stable tanks one of witch has been
> established for over 5 years.
> I am not new to fishkeeping but new to the
> practical part. If that makes sence?

:-) Well, your clown tank, the one dead fish and your
statement that you are new to fish keeping made me wonder
if you were really ready to reproduce fish..
--
cu
Marco

[Justice]

Marco Schwarz wrote:
> Hi..
>
>
>>>>I am new to fishkeeping
>>
>>I have 2 stable tanks one of witch has been
>>established for over 5 years.
>>I am not new to fishkeeping but new to the
>>practical part. If that makes sence?
>
>
> :-) Well, your clown tank, the one dead fish and your
> statement that you are new to fish keeping made me wonder
> if you were really ready to reproduce fish..
Well I've learned some things the hard way, Like the clowns were for
snail controll with not quite knowing how big they gan get. at that
point I never thought a 1.5" fish could grow to larger than 1'. the dead
fish was I think just one of those things all others seem good colour is
good active water levers good. it was also a new tank I'm trying to
establish for my clown loaches. I am probably not ready but is that not
part of learning ;). and from my clown loach experience I've learet that
reserch first, hence my post. And thank you for your responce.