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I've just braught a new tank, I believe it's around 10 gallons. I'm going to try and breed a few tiger barbs but need some more help on what exactly to do. I've done some reasearch and people suggest a bare tank with marbles at the bottom. So my first question would be where to get enough marbles? Also, it came with a small power filter, not sure how many gph but it's only got too settings, slow or fast. I know your ment to use a spunge filter but I'm not sure how these work, and the filter it came with only has an inlet at the back directly facing the back of the tank, so I figure this will help prevent the fry from being sucked up.
I've found that your ment to put the barbs in at night so there not that stressed and have some time to get to know each other as it were. The actual spawning happens in the morning, they chase each other and the female lets the male catch up while she releaced her eggs and he fertilises them. The female will deposit around 500-700 eggs. I would have to remove the marbles now right so when they hatch they dont get stuck or anything.
After I take them out should I dose them with methylene blue at a 90% solution to kill off any fungus and leave them for 15mins then do a complete water change with fresh dechlorinated water. The eggs will hatch after 48hours and stick to the glass and bottom.
The things im not sure on are what to feed and what to put in the tank other then the barbles or just totaly bare?
Any help would be appritiated, and when I get it going i'll post daily pictures and information on the fry, if I'm lucky!
Thanks for reading!
I've found that your ment to put the barbs in at night so there not that stressed and have some time to get to know each other as it were. The actual spawning happens in the morning, they chase each other and the female lets the male catch up while she releaced her eggs and he fertilises them. The female will deposit around 500-700 eggs. I would have to remove the marbles now right so when they hatch they dont get stuck or anything.
After I take them out should I dose them with methylene blue at a 90% solution to kill off any fungus and leave them for 15mins then do a complete water change with fresh dechlorinated water. The eggs will hatch after 48hours and stick to the glass and bottom.
The things im not sure on are what to feed and what to put in the tank other then the barbles or just totaly bare?
Any help would be appritiated, and when I get it going i'll post daily pictures and information on the fry, if I'm lucky!
Thanks for reading!