X-Ray Tetra, ready to breed?

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Industrial

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So I bought 6 x ray tetras about two months back. My midnight catfish ate three and one died from a heater failure.

I have two left. I noticed one developed white edging along it's anal fin. I remember this indicated males in Glass bloodfins. The other tetra is fatter and she appears to have eggs inside her (although I think half of my fish do since I am overly optimistic :lol2:)

These guys are fast, so I will post the best picture I could get in the 30 seconds I tried getting one.

If she is pregnant, the eggs will not survive the tank. Should they both be moved into a heavily planted smaller tank?

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Piranha86 said:
THese are my favorite fish. They may or may not be old enough idk... What you have to do is get a 10 gal and use a spawning net or marbles so they can't get the eggs. Here's a few sites.
http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/29154-pristella-tetra-breeding/
http://animal-world.com/encyclo/fresh/characins/pristella.php

Hope I helped.
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I love red belly x-rays, but they are just too hard to find. I found some at a LFS and bought a bunch.

I think I may just remove the other fish from the tank, and make a java moss floor. I also read in a book that these fish need to pair up. I have read anything from "Difficult to spawn" to "A beginner fish to breed".
 
Today my house went up to 80 degrees and all the rosys in the tank died as well as most of the feeder rosys still alive in other tanks. I took out the java rice fish and ghost shrimp and I did a 70% water change adding in 74 degree water. I talked to somebody at my LFS about what to do and they suggested 10 degrees difference, but I thought that was too much. When I checked in on them they appeared to be schooling very closely.
 
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