Neon Tetra breeding log...

[korbin]

So what Is going on with this project now that it is a year later? I read this thread from front to back and then BOOM, dead? How did it turn out?

 

[Smertrios]

My neons died on me =( They were from florida and when I got them most looked normal but there were quite a few odd shaped ones. Thinking they were ok and just "odd shaped" I kept them all and everything was fine at first but I think something I did stressed them and they all got a disease taking anywhere from days to a month to die. I am guessing I really dont know what happened but it could have been that the odd shaped ones had a disease and died but not before the other fishes had a chance to nip at the remains.

Before the mass die off I was well on my way to having loads and loads of neons. I had a few good spawns giving me 20+ young each but after the disease I gave it up at least for the time being. I have to be better prepared to deal with sick fish before I try the more disease prone varieties again.

 

[korbin]

Sorry to hear that. Neons can be touchy. I've had similar experiences with wild green neons that died for NO reason. Purchased 35 of them for a 75 gallon tanks that had been setup and completely cycled for awhile housing some small rams and apistos with a really nice/rare goby. The water parameters were perfect, I use an RO/DI filter unit for all my tanks to get the water parameters as close to perfect as possible and within 2 weeks I only had 6 left. Those 6 are still hanging strong and are now triple the size and beautiful. Sorry again for your loss. Are you breeding another species with all those tanks you accumulated?

 

[Smertrios]

Thanks, I was not happy with the die off. I have a 10 gallon tank of scuds and a tank with some plants all the other 10 gallon tanks are empty. I have a 55 gallon tank with marbled crayfish that produces quite a few crayfish and another 55 gallon tank with a pair of brown hoplo catfish which might give me some young fish someday.

Now that I think about it I have 5 gallon buckets with snails (x2), a small rubbermaid where I am experimenting with blackworms and some rubbermaids with hatching marbled crayfish.