HOW TO BREED CARDINAL TETRAS FROM SPAWN TO FREE SWIMMING
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Hi guys. On this video I'll be showing you how I breed Cardinal Tetras.
This is quite a long video but I try and show you as much as I can. Sorry if I waffle on a bit. Here's the link to the infusoria video
• HOW TO CULTURE INFUSOR...
And also the links to the Neon Tetra breeding videos.
Part 1 • HOW TO BREED NEON TETR...
Part 2 • HOW TO BREED NEON TETR...
Part 3 • HOW TO BREED NEON TETR...
Part 4 • HOW TO BREED NEON TETR...
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Mark, your breeding videos are great! One thing you might think about doing is adding a few bullet points to your summary that cover the key points e.g. Ph range, temperature, pair or small school, typical spawning time of day, number of infusoria feedings per day, etc. All these things are in the video, but sometimes they are pretty spread out and it would be FANTASTIC to have that as a reference in your comments when you post the video, so it's all easy to find when the viewer wants a quick refresher but doesn't want to spend the 15-30 minutes rewatching the whole show. Again, hats off: your channel is great!
Good idea.😀👍
Mark you are simply one of the best fish breeders I've ever seen. I've learned a lot from you and I will be watching your Channel for a long time to come from here in California.
Thanks for watching Steve.
New subscriber here, and I absolutely LOVE your channel! The breeding videos have been fantastic and your DIY tanks are inspirational. I never knew these were so easy to breed and I can't wait to try it myself. CHEERS!
Thanks for watching and subscribing. 😀👍
Mark, it's people like you who keeps this hobby going. Thanks.
When i bred fish back in the day ,it waswhen they were all wild caught fish ,noone knew really how to get a surviving brood,your vids amaze me,thank you
Hello Mark. Coming from a true veteran of the hobby, I'd like like to say I think you are the finest aquarist on U-Tube - bar none. Your work is very much appreciated.
By far the best and most detailed fish breeder on UA-cam... Keep up the excellent work mate, THANKS!!
Thanks for watching 😀👍
I must also add that I love your organic approach. I have tried the same and it works really well. There is a HUGE discussion around this sterile environment for breeding or not, and some of the folks I have learned from get really upset if you try to breed tetras in an "organic" environment. "THEY NEED STERILE TANKS!!!". Yeah, right. :D But I can admit there is a difference if you breed professionally or not - the record neon batch for one of my friends is 130 (plus) fry from one pair. That is insane, and professional. Personally, I am really happy to see a few youngsters born in the "natural way".
Perfect timing mark ! After following some of your previous breeding vids and having success I was thinking of giving my cardinals a go 👍 as always love your vids and thank you 👍
Inspiring vid! Now i know what im gonna breed, everyone here in Sweden ive talked with are sceptical when i say i want to breed Kardinals hehe, im gonna prove em wrong!
Hur gick det?
Excellent presentation and very thorough. I appreciate all the work you've done on this. Thank YOU! Thumbs up and I wish you all the best!
Finally got my ember tetras to successfully spawn and not eat their eggs and young! I have gobs now!!! Love your videos!
Hello Nice.. how did you manage to spawn ember tetras? Did you lower the hardness and lowered pH. What were your parameters?
Those diamonds are stunning. They really come to life in a blackwater set up.
🙂 Hi Mark...I think, your videos are among the best when it comes to helping others with fish keeping and breeding...thanks for your time....great to see a guy, like yourself, enjoying his hobby...and very informative for those who watch it.THANKS 👍
That’s a cracking video Mark. I teach aquatics at a college, and will be showing your channel to my students next week, and getting them to have a go at breeding some cardinals and rummeynoses that we have. I’ll also make sure they all subscribe! Thanks for all your hard work.
That would be amazing Andrew. Thank you.
Guppy also easy to breed 😁
What kind of jobs are available with a degree in aquatics? Idk if that’s a stupid question or not, but that subject would interest me. Please let me know thanks.
grumble420 I teach aquatics modules on Foundation Degrees in Marine Conservation and Zoological Conservation, so they’re not full aquatics degrees. There’re all kinds of jobs to go on to though, and some of our ex students work in public aquariums, zoos, conservation organisations, aquaculture facilities, as wildlife guides, diving instructors, researchers etc. One of my recent students has recently started a job in Madagascar working on coral conservation, and another has started his own business doing pond and aquarium installations and maintenance. The world is your oyster!
First fish I ever kept, take me back to when I had tanks instead of ponds😂😂
Wow great videos mark! Just amazing!! You really know your stuff and what your doing! Can't what for an update vid on these lil guys and see how they are doing
Simply amazing video mark, love ur breeding series, great video with lot of detail. Thanks Mark's
Fantastic as usual. I just wish I am half as successful as you with my fish endeavours. Lots of love to you and yours
Hi Mark your videos are just brilliant and I will be having a go at breeding my cardinals using your method.
Awesome 👏
These videos make me want to breed so much
Ps I was thinking maybe little mood music in the background would have helped the breeding start lol 😂
I think this is about breeding the fish.
You read my mind! I literally picked up some cardinals to breed today!
Another excellent video Mark. You said you avoid pH buffers, but would tannin powder you can buy from your wine & beer brew shop work well? A lot cheaper than almond leaves at least around me....
Wonderful job Mark! You are my go to guy On the how to's for breeding my favorite hobby fish.
i want to no if i can go from hard to asisic (cant spell ) water and be safe
You put me in such calm mode, I would totally breed.
I think I've watched this 4 or 5 times now. Maybe one day I'll actually catch out a few of mine and try it.
clicked the like button before watching 😊
Another amazing video Mark. Always look forward to your videos!
Hi Mark! Great video! Loving the breeding series! It would be great if you did Boraras brigittae (chilli rasbora). Thank you for the great videos!
Thanks again Mark for another stupendous video on how to do something I think we have all wondered about. You have de-mystified the Cardinal tetra. I like the fact that you figured out what to do even after the first pair wasn't cooperating. I appreciate all of your great videos. Thank you so much!! #fishfam
EXCELLENT MARK 👌🏻 CARDINALS BEING ONE OF MY FAVOURITE FISH.JUST BUILT A RACK SYSTEM FOR 9 TANKS 4 BEING 1 GALLON EACH..IM GONA GIVE THIS A GO 👌🏻👌🏻Steve,Devon.
Great video again Mark. Any chance you would be willing to try breeding green neon tetras? I've heard that they are pretty difficult to breed, and as they are somewhat hard to come by I think a video of breeding them would a nice way to make them more available and popular. I've got 14 of those and they are such a nice little fish that I wish more people would be able to keep.
Finally!!!! Been waiting for this! Amazing job!!!! Altums next?
Mark, you are a master breeder! I love your breeding videos, keep them up!
The other I day I fought my way through a Spanish paper from Argentina about standardizing ways to spawn cardinal tetras. They had interesting experimental setups, from doing nothing particular to simulating rainy season and even loading up baby brine shrimp with hormones. In the end, they didn't get a single spawning. But apparently, when they did histology on the females afterwards, all had been carrying mature eggs ready to spawn, even those in the control groups... It can be so easy and sometimes it just isn't.
Thankyou alot mark, I really enjoy watching your videos 💪🏻🏆
Mark great video and fantastic channel from a fellow fish keeper.
Hey Mark im a new sub, found your channel yesterday and have been watching all you're videos. Question, how often are you changing water on a set up like this? will this tank stay un filtered till they are big enough to move?
Thanks for watching and subscribing. As soon as the egg are laid remove the adults and then wait until the fry hatch don't do any water changes for the first two weeks . Then do 10% once a week adding it slowly and up to temperature ok.😀👍
Good question.
Love this vid subscribed. I'm planing on getting rid of most my convict cichlids and upgrading my 55 showtank to a 90 planted tanks and planning on breeding a gyant cloud of tetras.
Saw this video the other week and thought I’d give it a try. I got 8 cardinals today and will start feeding them up over the next few weeks. Thankyou for this video. I hope to see more new videos soon.
Great channel, don't worry about zooming too much ,like you say you can tell whats going on just from the way the adults and the fry are moving ,and yes man you make it look so easy
Hi Mark. I've seen your neon tetra breading video but wanted to have a go at cardinals so it's great to see this video. I'm just feeding up about 10 cardinals now to get them ready for breeding. Just wondering if you thought sedge peat would be ok for substrate or if you had a link to any suitable composts. Excellent video as always mate.
Hay mark. You should do a quick video on how you soak your compost/peet lol. Just to make it clear for people. Because some people won't get it... :/
How hard can it be? Simply put in water, done.
These videos about breeding are fantastic.
Mark, watching this has made me curious, I've been trying to breed my green neon tetra, but I've seen no spawning activity, I have really struggled to pick out males and females due to their tiny size, I have 6 fish in the tank of which I'm reasonably confident at least some are opposite sexes, but in this video you mentioned wild caught specimens being harder to breed, and it turns out that most green neon tetra are wild caught fish, I'm not 100% certain that mine are as I never asked the question, but I'd assume they were, I was wondering if you might be able to do a video series on them, or even just on breeding wild caught fish explaining the difficulties, and how to find solutions, it'd be a great help to me, and hopefully other people in a similar position, and to my mind it would also be a help to the river systems these fish are taken from!
Thanks either way, your videos are easily the most in depth I've found on youtube.
I am trying with Green Tetra and would also really appreciate any advice on breeding wild caught tetras.
Fantastic video thanks for taking the time Mark, my next project is these fish
Great learning video on caedinal tetras spawning. Did the update ever happen? I have not learned to make a search on just your channel so I get tons of orher hits. But I suppose you make playlists if you have several connected videos.
Again, a very nice video. Inspiring and full of facts. I just wanted to add another method one can try, if the species one tries to breed is difficult and won´t spawn. "The natural hormone method". As for the cardinals, add a pair of neons instead of more cardinals. They neons might spawn easier, and release "spawning hormones" in the water. That can trigger the cardinals too. There are many setups for tanks here, and of course it differs if you breed professionally or just for fun - but it is a cool trick that has sometimes worked for me.
Thank you very much for your videos and the knowledge on how to breed neon Tetris
No problem. 😀👍
i have used hard boiled egg yolk to feed fry before. you take a pinch and the rub your fingers together in the water. wham!! baby fish food.
Josh Turtle that will not work until the fish are much older! These fry will only eat microscopic live food.
I love Cardinal Tetras. Thanks For The Video
You are the best...
Well done! Please post an update. Been looking everywhere for a video showing this. Subscribed.
Thank you for subscribing 😀👍
What brand of heater are you using in this video? Great work as always! 🥂
Hi, Mark. Great channel you have here so I’m a new subscriber. Watching your cardinal breeding video has spurred me on to giving it a go. I’ve brought a 10l tank, lights and heater and have an infusoria culture on the go, although after 5 days I see no sign of life just a bacteria bloom and a rotten smell lol. Anyway, I have a question for you. It would appear that its all about the timing with things like getting the tank ready, the infusoria breeding and so on. The only thing you don’t mention is when to start to condition your adults. Could you give me some idea on the number days you start to condition before you want to transfer them into the breeding tank?
Hey Mark, thanks for all your informative video's. They are brilliant and so educational!!!
I'm about to attempt breeding Cardinals. How often (or capable) will the adults spawn??? Every 24hrs???, 48hrs???, Weekly??? (I'm after a lot of babies) Also, at what point in time would you add a filter and start small water changes for the babies tank??? Cheers
Great video thank you. I haven't got a separate tank but our cardinals, couple in particular are full of eggs and ready to spawn, will any ever survive in the main tank please? 😕
What's the water parameters in your community tank?
doing great mark!
Love video Mark
Could you feed vinegar eels or micro worms to the newborn fry?
Also could you do a video on how you grow bbs to adults?
Thanks mate. Gr8 job
You can feed Walter worms after a week but always start off with infusoria ok.
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Thank you Mark.
Would u be able to do a video on growing bbs to adults
Peat moss should work to lower pH too.
Sphagnum peat moss is often suggested as a soil amendment to decrease soil pH. However, most peat moss found in garden centers is neutral or slightly acidic. *Only Canadian sphagnum peat moss has a low pH of 3.0 to 4.5 and will effectively reduce soil pH.*
Just something I found on Google...
Excellent video. Subscribed!
Watching from West Yorkshire
Thanks for watching and subscribing 😀👍
Mate I thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Do you have a later video of these results? It's now December?
Is there a reason why you don’t cap your compost with sand? Is it to speed up the process of lowering the pH? So the eggs are hidden within the peat?
I counted 27 fry and I bet there are at least 10-15 more. Tops 45 fry.
Super,Mark!!Greetings from Poland!! I love cardinal tetras I also breed them.
Hello 😊👍
Technically the transition from hard to soft water is a lot more stressful and it takes days. When fish take oxygen from the water they lose ions like calcium and sodium. The gills have mechanisms to compensate that, but when the ion concentration suddenly drops, this capacity is overrun and it takes a few days to adapt. Apparently, this stress is part of their spawning trigger.
I have an quetion about that my cardenal are of soft water Then i change they to hard water if I change they to soft water they will spawning
Awesome informative video. Learning a lot from you.😊👍
Hey guys, my neon tetra eggs haven't hatched in 40 hours. any ideas on what is happening? They didn't turn white, pretty much stayed the same color they were on day 1 (transparent). Pure RO water reminaralized with tannins from maple leaves, 25 degrees temp. No fungus or anything on them, just stayed like they were on the first day.... Whole tank was cover with aluminium foil for 40 hours (since they hatched until now).
Thanks for sharing sir!!!
thx another great video i love them all. question have you ever made a pywood tank. and if plz make a video about it. i like too make a tank 2,50 m x 1,25m x 0,5m how thik do you then the glas have to be. sory about my English. im only a stupid dane. ;)
Hi Mark, if I cultured infusoria can I freeze them, alternatively what's the best way to keep them?
On another note I'm having a clear out and have a large amount of Indian almond leaves, if your interested let me know and there yours it's the least I can do given all the questions I've asked over the last 12 months ;)
New sub here. This will be my next project. Thanks for the video.
Hi. Thanks for watching and subscribing 😀👍
I love all your breeding videos....
if i want to breed any fish ... first to check in your channel avialble or not ...
Thanks Mark.
Hi Mark, just stumbled across your channel - instantly loved it!
I’ve got a question: with the peat, can we use normal substrate?
Yes you can as long as you get that PH down 6 to 6.5 you can use buffers.
Hi Mark, another great video. Where do you get your live foods from? None of my local aquarium shops stock live food any more. Thanks
I get bloodworm from Ebay dry packed.
Thank you Mark, reproduction ok. Greetings from Turkey.
can you inject Co2 to drop the pH instead? like a planted tank
Hi Mark, I have been watching your video on breeding cadinal tetras. I want to try this but im having bother with the compost. I have purchased westland Aquatic Planting & Potting compost, peat free. It says its compost for outdoor plants. Can I use this.
Mark, I rasied Bettas for a long time haven't been in the fish raising in quite sometime - is there a way to list like the clay size pots you have for the Neons and the long caves that look like pots - - this was from the video part 4 when you take the young and let them swim into the larger tank on their own. Also, you had a device to measure the PH - couldn't find one - not that I looked real hard. Maybe list the item by manufacturer's name. Thanks a bunch - I wish I would have had these videos 18 years ago when my youngest was 12. Keep up the good work. Bob from OHIO!!
Mark what I think helps with reluctant breeding fish as well as live food is a Barry White album to get them in the mood?....it works for me ...great vids thank you
I've got those albums as a back up. 😀👍
Hi Mark, I was just wondering if I could ask whether you are using tap or R.O water
Great video. Two thumbs up
Mark I’m just now viewing this video on breeding cardinal Tetris. Mark if you need the tank at 6.0 to 6.5 why don’t you just use distilled water with a little tapwater to adjust pH? Why add the compost if your goal is just to bring it to 6.5 why not just use distilled water and get rid of the compost? Or is there something about the compost That is needed?
Does the compost provide extra food is that why you use it?
Hi Mark I'm ripper Rita from Australia just want to ask what type of leaf litter do U use so I don't poisen me cardinal s let me no please your the best 😅
I use Indian almond leaves 😀👍
I was wondering have you ever kept the African dwarf clawed frogs? The males sing in the tanks they are in. I don't know if they have been bred or not. I would think they would eat shrimplets or fish fry if given the chance, but they tend to feed by scent not sight. They do eat all sorts of worm like foods, fresh frozen and live.
I imagine in the wild they all mass-spawn in a massive school together rather than a select pair or trio going off together and spawning independently. Perhaps the addition of more pairs makes them feel more comfortable and makes them more likely to spawn? I don't know the ins and outs of tetra spawning very much
Hi, if the eggs will be dropped into the mop or some plant what is the reason for using compost? It's the water pH? Isn't there another way to adjust the parameters, a cleaner one?
great stuff ,thanks Mark
nice
How often will you change the water and how much will you change?
When will you do the first water change?
Hi Mark, is it fine if you can share a URL or some reference of the peat/substrate/compost you use? What I keep finding here are all cattle manure base, not sure if that would work. Please enlighten us.
Hi Mark do you change some water when you put infusoria? or nothing and how long ?
Would it help to play some Barry White in the background? Can't Get Enought of your Love, Baby? Or tropical thunderstorm and rain sounds?
hi Mark i have a question may use real peat moss in substitution of the compost because here in my country (Panama) i have big doubts of the compost offer in the store or any plant oriented store is free from fertilizers and with the peat moss that i can find is 100% guarantee that is free from any fertilizer or chemical, by the way , you are the BEST, cheers from Panama
The mob of what kind is it? any organic? are they in 100% osmosis water? without oxygenator? excuse so many questions it happens that the video is in English and I don't understand that language, thank you.
Thank you for the brilliant videos, I’ve failed my Neon tetras breeding project last night, both male and female floated the next morning, something wrong with the water.... was it because I had no air stone inside? Suffocated?
That's a really good question. Clearly he didn't use an air stone in this video and nor did he worry about agitating the water surface to illicit gas exchange. Did you have any live plants in your breeding tank? Plants will release a certain amount of oxygen into the water, but I'm not entirely sure how much is needed.
The fish don't need to be in the tank any longer than 4-6 hours, so might I suggest the next time you do it that you agitate the water rigorously in a bucket before pouring it into the tank. This will inject large amounts of oxygen into the water column.
Another thing to consider is that you may have had an amonia spike if there were any dead organism in your substrate. Always test your water quality before introducing the fish. Using 50% aged aquarium water and 50% fresh water might benefit also. And don't forget temperature too.
Could you add peat to your canister filter to lower ph? I haven't tried that yet. How much would you use and what kind of netting would be able to hold something so fine? Would it block water flow too much?
What is the temperature of the heater in degrees Celsius?
Mark would you include a link to the light that you are using on the tank?