When your fish spawn

[BrianNY]

One of the most satifying achievements in the aquarium world, is when you set out to breed a species and it actually happens. When a spawn occurs it would be helpful if you posted the following info.

1. Tank size
2. Temperature
3. pH, [acronym:5000dcf523="General Hardness"]GH[/acronym:5000dcf523]
4. Conditioning (or what you've been feeding)
5. Fishes activity prior to spawning
6. Selection of spawning site (if any)
7. Anything you might have done to induce the spawn
8. Pics are always great

Having this info will really be helpful to others that want to spawn the same species.

[RoK]

Yes, that info would really be great. Nice post Brian.
Lovely discus and babies [acronym:fa3771f6e9="By the way"]BTW[/acronym:fa3771f6e9].

[TomK2]

Platies

1. Tank size = 10 [acronym:5af7310709="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:5af7310709]
2. Temperature = 78
3. pH, [acronym:5af7310709="General Hardness"]GH[/acronym:5af7310709] pH=7.6 [acronym:5af7310709="General Hardness"]GH[/acronym:5af7310709] @ 8 degrees
4. Conditioning (or what you've been feeding) = flakes, freeze dried tubifex, frozen bloodworms
5. Fishes activity prior to spawning = normal. looking swollen, can see dots in front of anal fin
6. Selection of spawning site (if any) = none, they let them drop
7. Anything you might have done to induce the spawn = no special care, just good water and good food. removed the female to divided breeding tank 5 days before fry delivered.


edit: tank backdrop is art work by my 5 and 6 year olds. Hey, they get a kick out of it!

[Liggs17]

Corydoras paleatus spawn

1. tank size: 30g tall
2.Temp: 70
3. pH~7 gH: don't know
4. Conditioning: lots of frozen bloodworms (thawed first, of course)
5. Activity before spawn: females appeared slightly plumper than usual. Did not observe the spawning, but have in the past and they form the traditional "T" position.
6. Selection of spawning site: glass sides of tank and leaves of vallisneria sp.
7. Anything done to induce spawn: not really. I simply began giving them bloodworms once a day during the last feeding time (night).

[medge00]

good idea brian!

Blue rams

1. several times in 30t, a few times in 20L and regular 10
2. temp - 78
3. pH, usually 7 or below. I've seen them do it with a pH above 7.4, but not often. kH, about 4 at the time. gH, not sure
4. Regular feedings of high quality flake and blood worms every other day.
5. Before spawning female sometimes gets a little plumper. The pink in her belly is almost always brighter. Males sometimes get more colorful.
6. on a rock, on a leaf, in a pit in the substrate
7. Extra water changes, and extra blood worms

[TomK2]

Hey! Anyone notice that Brian didn't give away any of HIS secrets in the initial post? C'mon Brian, fess up!

[anna8297]

Angels

1. tank size: 90g
2.Temp: 78
3. pH/gH: never test for the stuff
4. Conditioning: feed a variety of food, i.e. flakes, frozen blood worms, tubifex worm cubes.
5. Activity before spawn: pair became aggressive towards other fish in tank, picked at several spots in the tank to try and clean them.
6. Selection of spawning site: big driftwood log
7. Anything done to induce spawn: just put them together, angels breed pretty readily.

We have in the past put a pair in a separate tank to spawn. We tried three times to let them parent raise, but no success. Each time the eggs dissappeared before hatching. This time, we left the pair in the community tank to spawn and then removed the spawn to a hatch out tank.

[Lepomis]

Bettas

This is my first attempt breeding bettas but going well so far.

1. using a 5 quart bucket
2. ~ 75 °C
3. didn't test
4. blood worms
5. placed female in mason jar next to males tank for 3 days, then transferred the male betta to the 5 gallon bucket, set mason jar into bucket.
6. Place piece of styrofoam cup into bucket.
7. After he had made a bubble nest in~ 1hour poured female into bucket. Flaring and a little show for 30 minutes. Have been spawning off and on over the past hour.

[mumrah]

German Blue Rams

1. 10g planted
2. 83*F
3. pH:7.5, kH: 7dkH, gH: 10dgH
4. wardleys tropical pellets
5. The pair started getting fiesty with each other. Colors started to come out a lot. Then they started hanging out near one spot in the tank. Viola! Eggs!
6. In a small overturned terra cotta pot
7. Raise the temp, lower the kH, lower the pH
8. link here

[Elmware]

Marigold Swordtails

1. 10gal. planted.
2. 78*F
3. pH Approx 7.5
4. Nutrafin Max flakes and AquaYum frozen Blood Worms.
5. The male harasses the heck out of her. I noticed her getting bigger in the abdomin.
6. Not sure because they had their babies while I was at work and I came home to see them swimming at the top.
7. Wasn't really trying to breed them. It just came as a surprise. When the frys got about 4 weeks old, she had more and that was last night.
8. Here's some from the first run, but the camera is a cheap $20 thing I got at The Real Canadian Superstore(Loblaw Foods)



Now that I've turned them on, how do I turn them off?