I have a 6" male rotkeil Severum in a 30 gallon, soon to be a 55 gallon. I am going to receive a 5-6" female rotkeil from Jeff rapps. How do I get them to breed?
Breeding rotkeils
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Didn't take anything special for me, but a large water change refilled with slightly warmer water(just a couple degrees) seems to help. What are you planning to do as far as raising the eggs? Will you be leaving the parents with them or will you be pulling the eggs once fertilized?
Im probably going to remove the eggs and put them in a 20 gallon, than move them to a bigger tank for them to grow. I heard severums ate their eggs. I might try letting them take care of them. Have you had any successful spawns letting the parents guard and care for eggs?
I've never had them have fry live past a week when they're on their own, but they're in a community tank. mine were purchased together, but i didn't know they were "a pair" yet. But about two weeks after i bought them they spawned! Almost out of nowhere. Just get a female of comparable size and watch for shaking, digging, lip locking. My male shows off for the female by biting chunks of my plants and tearing them off. After they spawned once they kept doing it like clockwork every two our three weeks. when i decided to try and raise some, i set up a 30 gallon i had in storage, got it cycled and the next time they spawned i pulled the slate they laid on immediately after they were fertilized. I then kept them in a tank with an air stone and a sponge filter, and treated the water with a blue dye fungicide. After they hatched, you start feeding them once they've absorbed their egg sacs.
My male
My female
My male
My female
I've never had them have fry live past a week when they're on their own, but they're in a community tank. mine were purchased together, but i didn't know they were "a pair" yet. But about two weeks after i bought them they spawned! Almost out of nowhere. Just get a female of comparable size and watch for shaking, digging, lip locking. My male shows off for the female by biting chunks of my plants and tearing them off. After they spawned once they kept doing it like clockwork every two our three weeks. when i decided to try and raise some, i set up a 30 gallon i had in storage, got it cycled and the next time they spawned i pulled the slate they laid on immediately after they were fertilized. I then kept them in a tank with an air stone and a sponge filter, and treated the water with a blue dye fungicide. After they hatched, you start feeding them once they've absorbed their egg sacs.
My male
My female
Thanks for the help and i love your male hes very good looking. Heres my male:
Weird behavior going on: The male is wiggling very quickly back and forth, attacking filter intake, killing a tetra that was too big to swallow. I don't know if this is normal but today is the first I noticed it.
Sounds like he's starting to show of for her. Is he cleaning an area or digging a pit? He could just be claiming territory but my male definitely does a little wiggling act when he's in the mood