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Depends on your location, but here is some information about breeding them
Spawning is initiated by adding cooler water to the tank.
The fish need to be conditioned before spawning. This can be done with live food such as blackworms and frozen food such as bloodworms.
If you want to spawn them, recommended values for the water are:
The Emerald Catfish usually spawns in groups consisting of one male and several females. Each spawning produces 5-12 eggs and lasts between 1-3 hours.
Brochis splendens is an egg-scatterer. In the aquarium, females will collect the fertilised eggs in a pelvic fin basket and deposit them individually on plants, rocks, driftwood and other objects. After spawning is done, about 200 eggs will have been laid on leaves, roots, stones and tank glass.
The parents don't look after the eggs, so they can be removed and placed in a rearing tank. The fry hatch in 5-6 days, at which time they swim immediately to the bottom. The fry should be fed fry food initially.
The fry have a high rounded dorsal fin that is nearly as tall as their bodies are long. The bodies are marbled until about four weeks, when they start to turn green.
Breeding the Emerald Catfish is reasonably difficult.
They may begin to breed at around a year and a half old and about seven centimetres in size.
Special breeding notes....Brochis splendensis harder to raise from eggs than many of the Corydoras and similar catfish.
The eggs have a tendency to fungus during the incubation period. The addition of methylene blue or a similar antifungal to an incubatory tank may be necessary to inhibit the growth of fungus.
Hope this helps... Also breeding size is around 2-21/2 " if I'm not mistaken... someone correct me if I'm wrong on that
Spawning is initiated by adding cooler water to the tank.
The fish need to be conditioned before spawning. This can be done with live food such as blackworms and frozen food such as bloodworms.
If you want to spawn them, recommended values for the water are:
- Temperature of 22oC
- pH of 6.0, and
- hardness of 2-4dH.
The Emerald Catfish usually spawns in groups consisting of one male and several females. Each spawning produces 5-12 eggs and lasts between 1-3 hours.
Brochis splendens is an egg-scatterer. In the aquarium, females will collect the fertilised eggs in a pelvic fin basket and deposit them individually on plants, rocks, driftwood and other objects. After spawning is done, about 200 eggs will have been laid on leaves, roots, stones and tank glass.
The parents don't look after the eggs, so they can be removed and placed in a rearing tank. The fry hatch in 5-6 days, at which time they swim immediately to the bottom. The fry should be fed fry food initially.
The fry have a high rounded dorsal fin that is nearly as tall as their bodies are long. The bodies are marbled until about four weeks, when they start to turn green.
Breeding the Emerald Catfish is reasonably difficult.
They may begin to breed at around a year and a half old and about seven centimetres in size.
Special breeding notes....Brochis splendensis harder to raise from eggs than many of the Corydoras and similar catfish.
The eggs have a tendency to fungus during the incubation period. The addition of methylene blue or a similar antifungal to an incubatory tank may be necessary to inhibit the growth of fungus.
Hope this helps... Also breeding size is around 2-21/2 " if I'm not mistaken... someone correct me if I'm wrong on that