29g breeding catfish

[Kolton13]

You ever thought about breeding lake Malawi cichlids ? Pretty easy. I just breed a pair a couple months ago. The baby’s are now juveniles ? they are 2-3” I even had a strange color morph on 1 fish which I will post this evening. And not to mention I just pulled about 30 fry from another female 3 days ago, a smaller batch then usual but that’s alright.
I’m not sure if it’s the proper way but the way I collect the babies is I take a Q tip and remove the swab on one end, grab a 5 gallon bucket fill it up with water from the tank, catch the female and I hold her upside down with the tip of the Q tip just in her mouth enough to hold it open, and I continuously dunk her in n out of the water. The fry just flood out of her mouth into the bucket and into there own tank where I then smash the pellet food into smaller portions and feed them. I half to do it this way because I have many fish in my tank that just happen to love eating babies ? if I had another tank I’d probably do things differently with breeding.

Does sound like fun, but my room is all catfish based. So 4 tanks will have catfish in my room

 

[Kenneth iacuessa]

Does sound like fun, but my room is all catfish based. So 4 tanks will have catfish in my room

There gonna start calling you cat man ? although some catfish are pretty cool looking. I only got the original pictus catfish right now.

 

[Kenneth iacuessa]

This is the color morph I was talking about earlier today. Nothing special just kinda cool

 

[Kenneth iacuessa]

Seems just the back end was all black, never seen one like this before

 

[Kolton13]

It’s funny u say “Cat Man” my dads nickname for me is Katfish King and Kolton Exotic

 

[Kenneth iacuessa]

Oh really.. see it’s already happening ?

 

[Kenneth iacuessa]

Anyone know how to breed zebra loaches ? Or if they lay eggs or give live birth? I have 2 and one is definitely fatter then the other and she is hiding inside of a shell like she’s nesting

 

[Hendre]

As far as I know loaches are usually spray and pray... Not exhibiting parental behaviour

 

[DwarfCichlidLvr]

Anyone know how to breed zebra loaches ? Or if they lay eggs or give live birth? I have 2 and one is definitely fatter then the other and she is hiding inside of a shell like she’s nesting

Loaches are incredible difficult to breed. Only a few lucky people have had them breed. And this is usually not intentional.