I'd say I've bred a decent variety of things. Easy livebearers, easy cichlids, not so easy cichlids, bettas, tetras, etc
So as for random successes, I would say my cutteri and convict pairs spawning within days of being together is a success but then it's convicts and cutteri so it's not too special for them to have that high of a sex drive.
However my esmeraldas gold acaras were a random pair picked out for me by Jeff Rapper, and they spawned on the second day of me bringing them home. My (domestic) bettas were the same, minus the Jeff Rapps part. My nanolutea spawned within days of being in their tank, hell even my black skirt tetras spawned as soon as I put them in my blackwater.
However, I have some pretty confusing failures. For one I've never had an intentional guppy colony in a tank. The pond was a success until the rat incident. But then that's a pond. I say intentional as in I've never purposefully put guppies together for the sake of breeding and had success. I have however put culls together, had them spew fry, and a sort of colony formed out of that. I think I just don't feed enough, which I'm working on now. Every other day does not seem to work for making a guppy colony. I think with the culls they just had a repeating cycle of giving birth and eating the fry, then using that energy to make more fry.
I also had a pair of L144s, which you'd expect to also be spewing fry, and they did spawn on the second night of being home but the male kicked out the eggs (which did not make it) and never spawned again. I tried everything but light cycles. I did cooler rain simulations, gave them more caves made of different materials, gave them more driftwood, etc. I have the pair in a sunlit tank right now, and I heard the light cycles of our American falls and winters causes them to breed, so I'm hoping something comes out of that. The fry are probably going to get ravaged by mosquitofish and my cutteri pair anyway.
But tldr, why am I having successes with uncommon things that other people have trouble with, but I myself can't breed the easy things that people have too many of?
So as for random successes, I would say my cutteri and convict pairs spawning within days of being together is a success but then it's convicts and cutteri so it's not too special for them to have that high of a sex drive.
However my esmeraldas gold acaras were a random pair picked out for me by Jeff Rapper, and they spawned on the second day of me bringing them home. My (domestic) bettas were the same, minus the Jeff Rapps part. My nanolutea spawned within days of being in their tank, hell even my black skirt tetras spawned as soon as I put them in my blackwater.
However, I have some pretty confusing failures. For one I've never had an intentional guppy colony in a tank. The pond was a success until the rat incident. But then that's a pond. I say intentional as in I've never purposefully put guppies together for the sake of breeding and had success. I have however put culls together, had them spew fry, and a sort of colony formed out of that. I think I just don't feed enough, which I'm working on now. Every other day does not seem to work for making a guppy colony. I think with the culls they just had a repeating cycle of giving birth and eating the fry, then using that energy to make more fry.
I also had a pair of L144s, which you'd expect to also be spewing fry, and they did spawn on the second night of being home but the male kicked out the eggs (which did not make it) and never spawned again. I tried everything but light cycles. I did cooler rain simulations, gave them more caves made of different materials, gave them more driftwood, etc. I have the pair in a sunlit tank right now, and I heard the light cycles of our American falls and winters causes them to breed, so I'm hoping something comes out of that. The fry are probably going to get ravaged by mosquitofish and my cutteri pair anyway.
But tldr, why am I having successes with uncommon things that other people have trouble with, but I myself can't breed the easy things that people have too many of?
