The tank setup sounds easy enough, but after watching the fish I think
I'd go with broadleaved plastic or silk plants over java moss. The fish
carefully chose only the undersides of broadleaved plants near the
waterline for their eggs and totally ignored the java moss in the tank.
I guess a spawning grid for falling eggs would be good as well.

Just outof curiosity did you have crypts in that tank? The McInnery book
mentions they could not get glowline rasboras to breen unless they
juiced some crytpcpryne roots and threw that in.

It's gonna be tough getting my water down to the pH where the eggs will
actually hatch. The tank where the fish were spawning this morning is
at pH 7.6 (maxed out my bromthymol blue) and it's already half
rainwater. I guess I'd have to use even less tapwater and filter both
the display tank and spawning tank over peat. I wonder at what point I
would be able to keep the fry in tapwater rather than RO.

Take a bucket, half distilled 1/4 tap ad a hand full of peat moss
wait 2 weeks, carfully siphon it off. This is the magic breeding
water.

I got a paramecium culture at the aquarium society raffle so I'm fine
with food as long as it doesn't crash while I'm gone and I can
successfully propagate it.

"Gee I can tell from the 8 one gallon glass jars in
your kitchen you breed fish". Besides crashing the other
problem is you need to have *enough* paramecium. Several
cultures works pretty well. Lee Harper's recipe for infusoria
is 1 dried corn husk and 1 or 2 alfalfa rabbit pellets. The
latter gives them "fast" food while the corn husk keeps the
culture going for a long time. Works for months.

You should only need infusoria for 2 weeks I'd guess, but
depending on the size of the spawn you could end up needing a lot.
Now you know one of the reaosns I latched on to killies, they
(pretty much) all take bbs upon hatching ;-)

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