gonna try lf albinos have a few good specimen need to know about tak size temp and anything else to improve my chances
breeding bristle nose
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I don't really do anything for mine to breed. I have really hard water, and kept the tank at about 76. I don't know if they are still breeding right now, it's been only 70-72 since winter came.
I have mine in a 90 gallon with goldfish and cory's and they still make babies. Couldn't tell you the minimum tank requirements. Water quality is more important than any specific pH.
I have mine in a 90 gallon with goldfish and cory's and they still make babies. Couldn't tell you the minimum tank requirements. Water quality is more important than any specific pH.
Just add water is what I've always been told! These guys aren't difficult at all, nothing special to do, no temperature rise/drop required, no special foods, nothing. Keep their water clean, and in a well-cycled tank, and they will do the rest. Oh, you should definitely provide caves, the males prefer to raise their young in cave-type enclosures.
I bought min as juveniles and had to wait 1 year before they were actually sexed. Good luck though
Btw my water is
GH 4-5
KH 3
PH 7.5
Nitrate 12.5 -25 max
nitrite 0
ammonia 0
I had fry about 35 days ago. My male is in the cave now been there for 2 days but no eggs yet.
Good luck
Btw my water is
GH 4-5
KH 3
PH 7.5
Nitrate 12.5 -25 max
nitrite 0
ammonia 0
I had fry about 35 days ago. My male is in the cave now been there for 2 days but no eggs yet.
Good luck
brutonsbrew;4699488; said:
20-40g, LONG..........Medium to strong current, so place in a powerhead.......Lots of driftwood.......Some 2 inch PVC piping.......Cut the PVC into 5-6 inch long peices.........Place in differnet areas of the tank, under driftwood, some partially buried in the substrate..........Keep the diet varied.....Peices of lettuce everyday........Live foods such as tubifix worms and brine shrimp.......Flakes and sinking pellets are and should be a staple diet twice a day........Always have an extra tank ready and cycled for the fry...A10g will do until the fry are saleable, around 2 months of age.....Feed the baby brine either frozen or live, preferably live because the protein content is a lot more than that of frozen..........
Mine bred in a 20 long in clay pot with sponge filter. Breeding is easy. Raising them up is the challenge. Clean water. Repeat clean water. 50% a day worked for me.
Joeygee23;4706630; said:
I haven't found raising the fry to be a challenge at all, and I've been breeding them for years...as a matter of fact, they are by far the easiest fry I've ever dealt with. I have a group breeding now. I do a water change twice a month. I leave the fry with the parents as one big colony. No issues at all.
yeah, I don't have an issue with the fry either. The first time I realized mine were breeding is when I found a handful of tiny babies in the bottom on my fluval FX5 canister filter. They even survived being taken out of that and plopped back into my main tank. Survival of the fittest this way!