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Weasel, Panduro are part of the Nijsseni complex, and are monogamous. You can buy a pair, but you are not guaranteed they will spawn, they actually have to choose their partner, and if they don't like the female/male they will not spawn with them. I find with any member of the nijsseni group...

Angelfish fry are pretty hardy, but 20ppm might be a little high for any fry. If you notice any significant losses once they hatch you should perform a 50% change immediately.

Good luck! and nice pics! They grow extremely quick on BBS, hope you have another tank handy! Within two months they should be a quarter of an inch.

Most fry aside from livebearers don't fare well on dry foods, and they grow 10x faster on live BBS. You can use micro-powered foods, but you have dump alot in for them to get the idea to eat it and it spoils the water quickly. It's safer and healthier to use BBS. You might want to order some...

Congratulations! The fry usually take about 48 hours to hatch and another 5-6 days to become free-swimming, at this point is where you begin feeding them newly hatched brine shrimp. Unfourtunealty these are no livebearers and will not accept dry or even liquid fry foods. You'll need either a...

There's an issue of TFH that covers breeding the exact species you have, as well as others. September 2005, Volume LIV- number 1- #594.

Well in short, you can't. They have enough problems eating their own eggs without having other fish eating them as well. Tetras are egg scatterers, when they spawn their eggs fall into plants or leaf litter in the wild, safely away from predators. Even still they breed every morning during the...

They're most likely fertile, but make sure she's in the proper evironment for them to successfully grow in. Lots of java moss, no fish or other shrimp. Let her release and take her out. The larvae will do the rest. Adding infusoria or green water every second day can't hurt either.

Most angels will clean/"prepare" as a grazing technique. It's doesn't necessarily meaning they're spawning or preparing too. 6.8 is a little too high for them to spawn. If it were 6.2-6.5 maybe, but 6.8 is still too hard. I'm crossing my fingers for you though! :wink:

I've never agreed with schools doing this, you can still introduce foreign pathogens into the local ecosystems in doing this. This is why farmed salmon is such a scurge in the pacific northwest. If these organizations want to educate the children then they should give them a pair of convicts or...

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Spawning altums and raising altum fry seems to be really difficult. These are not you average angels, they need a low ph of around 4.5 to spawn and it's even more difficult to raise the fry than discus. Reason #1 there are not more altums in the hobby. Of in the wild they seem to have no...

Don't you think If it were at all possible it would have been done by now? They both require totally different breeding conditions, so NO.

As far as I know they've never been bred in captivity.

wait until it's about 1" to be on the safe side.

The best way to stay a quality breed is to introduce a new wild gene every few generations. Always keep it 'out' of the family though, not only does it degenerate the gene pool, most of the fry will come out with stunted fins and problem growth.

I just let them have a go at it when I spawn my fish, I want to keep their genes as pure as they came to me. I'm not in favour of this selective breeding, because that's how alot of manmade and problem breeds of animals came to light in the first place. See the pitbull, rotweiler, parrot...

Usually sexing tetras is in the size of the fish and the anal fin. Female anal fins are usually more rounded and the females will have an obvious distention in their belly where they store the eggs. Males will often have a more pointed or lancet shaped anal fin. This is of course a general...

The third angel is going to have to go, while 55 gallons may be enough for one pair. It's definately not enough for one pair plus a loner. Once the pair starting actually spawning they will become ALOT more aggressive and take over the entire tank.

It may indicate an upcoming spawn, but it is still an act of aggression. If the tank is any smaller than 50 gallons I wouldn't keep this pair together full time or one of them may eventually be killed. Particularily the female. When the male wants to spawn and the female isn't ready this results...

They're snail eggs, ghost shrimp carrying the eggs in their abdomen inside the finnerets to fan them. Unless you have another apple snail I wouldn't worry about those eggs, they'll be fish food in no time.

Try the http://www.thepufferforum.org/ someone is bound to know there, but puffers are not known as a digging genus, however they do bury themselves in the sand to wait for prey. I've never heard of them actually cleaning out a pit though.

Sorry for taking so long to reply Steve! It's not necessarily a spawn, dwarf puffers are generally that aggressive to each other and even to their mates aside from spawning. It would be best to have one pair in the tank and that's all. They're an egg scatterer, and spawn like killies in java...

Once you turn off the air flow the BBS should settle at the bottom of the hatchery granted you don't have a light on over the hatchery. Which brings me to your second question, in order to feed BBS you should have a light over the hatchery 24/7. They eat algae that grows in the water column.

Go with a hatchery, brineshrimpdirect.com has excellent lab quality ones. Don't waste your time with those crappy hatcher/feeders. hatching brine shrimp is very easy, but you really need at least two hatcheries going at once for 1-6 tanks of fry.