id love to start breeding these fish. so any info on tank sixe,water,decor etc would be helpful
cheers
TIA
cheers
TIA
Breeding orange chromides
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tricksterpup
It's SPRING!!! BUNNIE RABBITS
Tia,
I kept mine in a 29 gallon tank with silk plants and flower pots for cover in the tank. They were in the basement so I rarely saw them except for feedings, didnt even know I had fry until the were swimming around.
so here is the setup
29 gallon tank
Emperor 400 for filtration
substrate - flint stone
silk plants and flower pots for decor
Lights just regular NO lights.
jim
I kept mine in a 29 gallon tank with silk plants and flower pots for cover in the tank. They were in the basement so I rarely saw them except for feedings, didnt even know I had fry until the were swimming around.
so here is the setup
29 gallon tank
Emperor 400 for filtration
substrate - flint stone
silk plants and flower pots for decor
Lights just regular NO lights.
jim
thanks. im planning on a 3ft tank which would be good for them ill have a light but it will be on a dimmer swich and ill have it low.
how did you raise the fry
how did you raise the fry
Here's my set up:
33 long brackish tank (4 feet long)
1.005 salinity
normal hood lighting
2 bio-wheels (I think one is a 170 and the other is a 125)
Weekly water changes of 25%
Decor consists of driftwood, lots of small clay pots, natural rocks, fake plants, java moss & super fine marine-like sand.
This wasn't originally set up as a breeding tank so I have lots of tiny predators(gobies & a flounder) in with my chromide pair. Most of the babies have gotten eaten and no batch has made it past about 2 weeks yet, not even the ones I had from their 1st, kept in a breeder net. Not sure what was wrong on that one. Have taken a couple people's advice and am leaving one of the lights on at night so the parents can continually watch the brood. Some are still disappearing, but not as fast. It seems that after about 2 weeks, the parents become more lax in their brood care and let the babies wander by themselves sometimes where of course, there's always a hungry goby hanging around. If you're going to seriously breed these guys, I wouldn't put anyone else in the tank with them. I may eventually make another of my tanks brackish and move the chromide pair so their babies might actually make it. Also, I wouldn't suggest any kind of bio-wheel filtration. Go with a sponge filter if you can. Even with netting over the intakes, the babies still got sucked up into the filter. To mostly solve that problem, I bought a thick aquaclear sponge and cut squares out it, tore an intake sized hole in the middle and fitted them over each tube. Works great but I'm sure some of the babies still get sucked in where I had to leave an opening for the water.
33 long brackish tank (4 feet long)
1.005 salinity
normal hood lighting
2 bio-wheels (I think one is a 170 and the other is a 125)
Weekly water changes of 25%
Decor consists of driftwood, lots of small clay pots, natural rocks, fake plants, java moss & super fine marine-like sand.
This wasn't originally set up as a breeding tank so I have lots of tiny predators(gobies & a flounder) in with my chromide pair. Most of the babies have gotten eaten and no batch has made it past about 2 weeks yet, not even the ones I had from their 1st, kept in a breeder net. Not sure what was wrong on that one. Have taken a couple people's advice and am leaving one of the lights on at night so the parents can continually watch the brood. Some are still disappearing, but not as fast. It seems that after about 2 weeks, the parents become more lax in their brood care and let the babies wander by themselves sometimes where of course, there's always a hungry goby hanging around. If you're going to seriously breed these guys, I wouldn't put anyone else in the tank with them. I may eventually make another of my tanks brackish and move the chromide pair so their babies might actually make it. Also, I wouldn't suggest any kind of bio-wheel filtration. Go with a sponge filter if you can. Even with netting over the intakes, the babies still got sucked up into the filter. To mostly solve that problem, I bought a thick aquaclear sponge and cut squares out it, tore an intake sized hole in the middle and fitted them over each tube. Works great but I'm sure some of the babies still get sucked in where I had to leave an opening for the water.