That's amazing! sometimes I see breeding behavior on my green neons and cardinals, they live together so I am thinking that they might be eating the eggs and any fry that's able to hatch, I made the mistake of introducing two Apistograma Cacatuoides to the tanks and those guys are ferocious, they wiped out all the cherry shrimps in my 20g tank 😢 they would definitely not allow any fish fry to survive if any ever hatches, thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Sergio! In my experience, it's very challenging to get tetras to spawn and grow by itself. Although it's not impossible, I've only had one ember tetra fry survive in a heavily planted tank before. Introducing two Apistograma fish would definitely decrease the likelihood of any fry hatching and growing into adults.
Hi Bo, thanks for all the informative videos! I am currently trying to breed neon tetras and was wondering if the fry can be raised in pure distilled water? I just had a batch of fry that died on the second day after hatching using distilled water and i was wondering if the lack of calcium and other minerals might have contributed to that.
Hi Polysheep, Thanks for your comment! I also had the same problem recently. I tried to hatch green neon tetra using another type of bottled mineral water, but all the fry died before reaching the free swimming stage. Finally, I used the old water from the fish tank to hatch them again and found that there were not many deaths. I don't know the specific reason, but some types of distilled water may not be good to the growth of fry.
@@bothetetrabreeder8734 I currently have a second batch of hatchlings and i'm mixing a bit of dechlorinated tap water to the distilled water. They are coming to 3 days old now. 希望这次不会又集体阵亡吧。
@@polysheep Good job, that's a great improvement! 3 days old ember fry should have eyes developed already. After 3 more days, they should be free swimming and you can feed them baby brine shrimp! 我觉得应该不会全灭了。下个关键点就是开口了，喷火灯一般我是直接丰年虾开口的。如果你有草履虫之类当然更好，祝你成功！
Hey Bo, what is your feeding regime for conditioning tetras prior to spawn? I.e., are you feeding twice or four times and what sort of foods are you using?
Hello! If you want to breed a specific type of tetra, ideally, we should separate the males and females into two tanks. Feed them plenty of live food, 2-3 times a day. This way, we can quickly condition the fish and prevent them from spawning prematurely in the community tank. However, this approach is quite strict and demanding, requiring a lot of time and effort. Nowadays, I don't follow this method. I don't feed them special food a few days before breeding either. As you can see in many of my videos, I keep all my tetras in a community tank. I mostly feed them flakes and occasionally offer live food like baby brine shrimp or mosquito larvae. When I want to breed them, I simply select the healthiest males and the fattest female.Most the tetra I breed are all pretty common ones on the market.
Hi KP, Cardinal tetras are generally more difficult to breed compared to ember tetras. In my experience breeding both types of fish, I've never had an issue with getting eggs from my ember tetras, but with my cardinal tetras, I've only had about a 50/50 success rate. Additionally, ember tetras tend to lay more eggs than cardinal tetras.
Hi,is this your first time getting the eggs? If it's your first time, it's possible that the eggs weren't fertilized. You can try again and make sure to use clean, filtered water for hatching. I've found that using water from a community tank can also work well , so you don't necessarily need to use distilled or purified water.
Hi, I only use this method for breeding Neon Tetras because other tetras don't show as many deformities as I've experienced in breeding Neon Tetras. Thanks for your question.
@@bothetetrabreeder8734 thank you for the clarification. Your videos are great thanks for sharing the methods for breeding neon tetra's with different technique since it can actually save a lot of space using the jarring method that you have explored and shared to us.
Hi Haricot! I personally have never used methylene blue before, mainly because I don't have a large amount of fish eggs to hatch. I think using methylene blue may potentially improve hatch rates for those who have a large quantity of fish eggs. Thank you for your comment!
Hello! I remember the temperature was about 26 ℃, but I don't think it was the reason that led to their spawning. The main reason was that I fed them blood worms every day. I don't think water has any special requirements either. This aquarium is actually the one where I bred neon tetras a while ago.
Hi Christian,Thanks for your comment! Actually, the fish in this video are green neon tetras. To determine the sex of neon tetras, you can simply look at their bellies. The female has a short and round body, while the male has a long and slender body. You can check out my video on "Neon Tetra Fish Breeding Tips: Conditioning and Sexing" for more information.
@@bothetetrabreeder8734 hello sir thanks for your reply, I just bought 10 neon tetras I will just check their physical appearance 😊 happy fish keeping 🐠🐟😊
Great to hear that you bought some neon tetras! Do you have any plans to breed them? I'm planning to breed my neon tetras again soon using the Jar method, and I'm hoping for better yields this time. Thanks for your comment!
Darf ich darum bitten, in den Titeln der Videos die wissenschaftlichen Namen und nicht die umgangssprachlichen Namen zu nennen, damit die Tiere auch identifizierbar sind? Das wäre eine große Erleichterung für anderssprachige Interessierte. Vielen Dank.
Thank you for your comment! the scientific name of the fish in this video is Paracheirodon simulans. Using scientific names can indeed be more precise and helpful for international viewers. I'll try to include them in future video title. Thanks!
That's amazing! sometimes I see breeding behavior on my green neons and cardinals, they live together so I am thinking that they might be eating the eggs and any fry that's able to hatch, I made the mistake of introducing two Apistograma Cacatuoides to the tanks and those guys are ferocious, they wiped out all the cherry shrimps in my 20g tank 😢 they would definitely not allow any fish fry to survive if any ever hatches, thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Sergio! In my experience, it's very challenging to get tetras to spawn and grow by itself. Although it's not impossible, I've only had one ember tetra fry survive in a heavily planted tank before. Introducing two Apistograma fish would definitely decrease the likelihood of any fry hatching and growing into adults.
very nice, thank you for share! Amazing
Thanks!
Really cool look at those guys zipping around they’re really in the mood
Thanks Jack and dan! Appreciate you guys support!
@@bothetetrabreeder8734 likewise😀😀👍👍
they are really pretty, and they love it in there
Haha, I agree, otherwise they wouldn't spawn in there.
Hi Bo, thanks for all the informative videos! I am currently trying to breed neon tetras and was wondering if the fry can be raised in pure distilled water? I just had a batch of fry that died on the second day after hatching using distilled water and i was wondering if the lack of calcium and other minerals might have contributed to that.
Hi Polysheep, Thanks for your comment! I also had the same problem recently. I tried to hatch green neon tetra using another type of bottled mineral water, but all the fry died before reaching the free swimming stage. Finally, I used the old water from the fish tank to hatch them again and found that there were not many deaths. I don't know the specific reason, but some types of distilled water may not be good to the growth of fry.
@@bothetetrabreeder8734 I currently have a second batch of hatchlings and i'm mixing a bit of dechlorinated tap water to the distilled water. They are coming to 3 days old now. 希望这次不会又集体阵亡吧。
@@polysheep Good job, that's a great improvement! 3 days old ember fry should have eyes developed already. After 3 more days, they should be free swimming and you can feed them baby brine shrimp! 我觉得应该不会全灭了。下个关键点就是开口了，喷火灯一般我是直接丰年虾开口的。如果你有草履虫之类当然更好，祝你成功！
@@bothetetrabreeder8734 结果过了８天左右全灭了。估计是我的水量太小，用滴虫喂养使水质败坏。
@@polysheep 是到8天后一起全灭还是每天都死？到第八条死光? 一般建议从卵到4天左右尽量不去打扰它们，把它们放置阴暗处，到第5-6天左右，一般就可以平游了，用丰幼喂比较少细菌。如果第八条突然开始全部挂掉有可能你喂的滴虫它们根本并不喜欢吃或者没有营养，你可以看他们腹部就知道有没有吃进去。滴虫是不是就是那种infusoria之类的？我觉得喂这玩意还不如直接蛋黄水。
Hey Bo, what is your feeding regime for conditioning tetras prior to spawn? I.e., are you feeding twice or four times and what sort of foods are you using?
Hello! If you want to breed a specific type of tetra, ideally, we should separate the males and females into two tanks. Feed them plenty of live food, 2-3 times a day. This way, we can quickly condition the fish and prevent them from spawning prematurely in the community tank. However, this approach is quite strict and demanding, requiring a lot of time and effort. Nowadays, I don't follow this method. I don't feed them special food a few days before breeding either. As you can see in many of my videos, I keep all my tetras in a community tank. I mostly feed them flakes and occasionally offer live food like baby brine shrimp or mosquito larvae. When I want to breed them, I simply select the healthiest males and the fattest female.Most the tetra I breed are all pretty common ones on the market.
@@bothetetrabreeder8734 thanks,Bo. So you can get your tetras to spawn from feeding flake once a day and occasionally feeding live baby brine?
I feed them flakes twice or three times a day, and occasionally feed them live baby brine shrimp and mosquito larvae.
@@bothetetrabreeder8734 ok great, thanks. Keep up the good work
@@chrismelb100 You're welcome!
it would be amazing if u did a video on spawning cherry barbs
HI Ryan, That'd be a great idea! Wait till I successfully breed my cardinal tetra. please stay tuned! Thanks!
Hey Bo, are cardinal tetras easier to breed than ember tetras?
Hi KP, Cardinal tetras are generally more difficult to breed compared to ember tetras. In my experience breeding both types of fish, I've never had an issue with getting eggs from my ember tetras, but with my cardinal tetras, I've only had about a 50/50 success rate. Additionally, ember tetras tend to lay more eggs than cardinal tetras.
@@bothetetrabreeder8734 oh ok! But my ember tetras eggs weren’t fertile so. I don’t know the reason why?
Hi,is this your first time getting the eggs? If it's your first time, it's possible that the eggs weren't fertilized. You can try again and make sure to use clean, filtered water for hatching. I've found that using water from a community tank can also work well , so you don't necessarily need to use distilled or purified water.
It looks like a lot of males to female ratio. Did test any parameters? Congrats
Yes, the only one we can distinguish with our naked eyes is the largest one, which we assume to be female. Thank you for your support!
Hello sir regarding breeding the tetra's are you buying from different source so that you won't have many deform fry?
Hi, I only use this method for breeding Neon Tetras because other tetras don't show as many deformities as I've experienced in breeding Neon Tetras. Thanks for your question.
@@bothetetrabreeder8734 thank you for the clarification. Your videos are great thanks for sharing the methods for breeding neon tetra's with different technique since it can actually save a lot of space using the jarring method that you have explored and shared to us.
Do you need methylene blue to hactch green neon eggs?
Hi Haricot! I personally have never used methylene blue before, mainly because I don't have a large amount of fish eggs to hatch. I think using methylene blue may potentially improve hatch rates for those who have a large quantity of fish eggs. Thank you for your comment!
What is the ph of the water?
PH is about 7. I tested it in my neon tetra breeding video. Thanjs for your comment!
Awesome, what was the temperature of the water that lead to them spawning. I understand these require slightly different water parameters to neons
Hello! I remember the temperature was about 26 ℃, but I don't think it was the reason that led to their spawning. The main reason was that I fed them blood worms every day. I don't think water has any special requirements either. This aquarium is actually the one where I bred neon tetras a while ago.
Just blood worm or also brine shrimp?
How do you determine a female and male neon tetra
Hi Christian,Thanks for your comment! Actually, the fish in this video are green neon tetras. To determine the sex of neon tetras, you can simply look at their bellies. The female has a short and round body, while the male has a long and slender body. You can check out my video on "Neon Tetra Fish Breeding Tips: Conditioning and Sexing" for more information.
@@bothetetrabreeder8734 hello sir thanks for your reply, I just bought 10 neon tetras I will just check their physical appearance 😊 happy fish keeping 🐠🐟😊
Great to hear that you bought some neon tetras! Do you have any plans to breed them? I'm planning to breed my neon tetras again soon using the Jar method, and I'm hoping for better yields this time. Thanks for your comment!
@@bothetetrabreeder8734 for now just for pet maybe in the future, I need to know learn and observe their behavior first., happy fish keeping
Got it. Sounds good! Enjoy watching and learning about your new neon tetras. Happy fish keeping!
Darf ich darum bitten, in den Titeln der Videos die wissenschaftlichen Namen und nicht die umgangssprachlichen Namen zu nennen, damit die Tiere auch identifizierbar sind? Das wäre eine große Erleichterung für anderssprachige Interessierte. Vielen Dank.
Thank you for your comment! the scientific name of the fish in this video is Paracheirodon simulans. Using scientific names can indeed be more precise and helpful for international viewers. I'll try to include them in future video title. Thanks!
@@bothetetrabreeder8734 Danke sehr!