How often do tetras breed?

[Nicki Gaga]

I have two glowlight tetras and 5 neon tetras.

If they are in very good condition and fed a variety of flakes, pellets, frozen and meaty foods, how often should I expect them to breed?

 

[emerald76]

Tetras tend to be scatter layers so it's unlikely you will get fry to live if they stay with the parents. I'd recommend filling a ten with a two inch layer of marbles and fill it with water two inches from the top. Add a sponge filter and one of your schools. As soon as you see spawning, remove parents and filter. Someone else will have to help from there I'm unsure on raising.


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[Fresh2o]

You would probably get better success with greater numbers of each gender. With the pairs that you have, there is no guarantee that you have male and female combinations.


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[Nicki Gaga]

I know. But how often is the female able to produce eggs?

 

[fazal]

Tetras generally spawn every 8-10 days once conditioned properly after spawning...i put my cardinals,harlequin and blue flame tetras every 2 weeks to spawn and i always get a handsom spawn...


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[fazal]

Raising them is not very easy but its a challenge...what i found works well to raise my fry are infosoria or alot of java moss....when the fry are free swimmimg they feed on the bacteria of the javamoss for 2-3 days then they will be abled to eat live brine....

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[fazal]

I breed and raise alot of tetras so i would be abled to tell you the methodni go about breeding them...and raising the fry

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[Nicki Gaga]

Tetras generally spawn every 8-10 days once conditioned properly after spawning...i put my cardinals,harlequin and blue flame tetras every 2 weeks to spawn and i always get a handsom spawn...


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Thanks. That's a bit more than a week...so thanks. That's all I needed to know.