Friday, February 22, 2008

Breeding Update #2

Breeding the Goldfish didn't work, and the weather finally warmed up so I let them go in our pond. Now that my Goldfish tank is empty, I put All the fish plants in there, and now I am going to try to breed my Albino Tiger Barbs. I put the female in the tank all alone for about 2-4 days while
she fills up with her eggs. Once she is full of eggs I put the male in the tank with her and they will start to swim next to each other. And the actual spawning should take place the next morning. He will start to chase her nipping at her fins and this will go on for a while. She will finally let him catch up to her and he will push her in the plants forcing her to release 1-4 eggs at a time and he will instantly fertilize them and the chasing will start over and will repeat until she is out of eggs.
after a couple hours they will be done spawning and the male can go back in the community tank
and the female can go back in the community tank or put in a recovery tank for a week. The reason why you have to take them away from the tank with the eggs is because they will eat them.

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