Finally tiger barb breedng success

here are pic updates things are going better than expected........:headbang2:

First couple pics are my 5-7 day old free swimmers eating newly hatched brine shrimp. They fill up their clear little bellies until they are orange/shrimp colored! Amazing how much they will eat and bloat up.

The second two pics are the generation behind.......just turning 4 days old. This is the group that had virtually no loss. I used hydrogen peroxide from the start with tank #2 and had to remove only three of over one hundred eggs dosing at 1ml per gallon. I scaled back that dose to once a day now that eggs or no longer present. I gave them some shrimp as a trial even though most don't look ready. I was surprised to see that the majority of them got some in their stomachs.

Fifth and sixth pics are the shrimpery at work. I had to buy another (wanted three more but they ran out). Can never get enough of them on hand to keep up. I need a full hatch per day at least. Only 6.99 anyway.

Any questions or comments?

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Beautiful tank and Excellent thread! I've got 4 Tigers in a 220g community tank and I find them to be very entertaining. They spend a lot of time chasing one another, occasionally pairing off for some interesting courting maneuvers. Your experience has got me thinking I may try to breed them...
 
Great pics, wonderful fish husbandry, it is great to achieve goals u have set in your hobby, i am very impressed and wish u all the best, please keep us updated.
Regards,
Denis
 
Thanks. I have taken the advice of another forum member and set up a home-made bottle and aerator hatchery setup which should theoretically yield a much higher hatch rate with less expense. It took 5 minutes and no money to make (I had an extra air pump on hand.) I'll post the results of that as well if I get improved food source. incidentally the second tank is full of free swimmers tonight. Looks like grow is fast around here. Should be a few weeks before a real tiger barb shape starts to develop. I'll keep up on the pics.

Sy228........I highly recommend you try it. I did the leg work for you. Its hard if you do it wrong and easy if you do it right! Just two things:
1. Get more tiger barbs in your huge tank because they are incredible to watch in a large school (I have 90 soon to be 200) haha.
2. Try my simple steps for breeding them its very satisfying and amusing. There are times when I wish there was even more tinkering to be done. I love messing with the stuff and seeing good results. Much lower maintenance than I would have guessed. I'd be pleased to give you some more advice. Send me an email or PM.
 
By the way the best tool I use for tank cleaning, egg transfer, and seemingly everything else is a turkey baster. Priceless for taking care of things and keeping my hands out of the water.
 
Ok gunther, you convinced me. I ran out and got one of the Lee's breeder tanks, although I forgot to get the net version to isolate them beforehand so its back to the lfs later today. It will be interesting to see if they are as willing to breed in a mixed-community tank as they seem to be in an all-tiger tank.

I have a total of 4 tigers now, and as best I can tell there are 3 males and a single female. I took a picture of the one I believe to be the female in hopes that you might be able to confirm. Her belly is much larger than the rest and her nose doesn't get as red, so I think I got it right. What do you think? Does the larger belly indicated she's ready for isolation?

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tiger barb1.JPGwould you say this barb is carrying eggs? since i have had it it's been fat like this

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