Setting up my breeding tank.
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After a failed breeding attempt I am renewing my attempts to get my CPDs to breed.
I was a little inspired ny a visit to Ste’s fish room – especially his use of plastic canvas to sieve out eggs from the tank.
SO here is my little photo journal of setting up my small tank ready for breeding.
‘Plastic Canvas’ – found in craft stores and used for basic cross stitch. It cost me £1.79 for an A3 sized peice…. bargain!
A close up to show size of grid/holes
Whilst I was out, I bought some cheap as chip dark green synthetic wool to make spawning mops out of…
Next I rooted around in my bits of fish stuff box and found 2 suction cups to act as props for the canvas.
My tank – bare PFK aquacube
After 2 minutes of trimming I have managed to get the canvas to sit correctly.
All I have left to do is pop in my heaterstat and await the delivery of my sponge filter.
Any more comments and suggestions???
Max
welcome to the forum
looks good i want to do this but need more tanks/room!
are you from tropical fish forums? also do you have a planted tank?
chris
I occasionally frequent TFF and TTF as will as the UKAPS forums.
Yes I do have a planted tank.. 2 to be exact
This is the latest snap of my main tank – approx 20 secs ago
I’m due a rescape in the next few weeks. It needs some serious attention!
Looks gorgeous.
Never got into the planted aquarium thing, I just admire other peoples’. I am growing a rather nice lawn in my ‘semi-planted’ one though.– Atlantis
I have got 6… initially 10, but they travelled so poorly I was left with 6. All in great condition with the males looking really good over the past month or so!
I live in widnes (10 minutes from Ste when I dont get lost), and bought my CPDs from trimar in SW England.
I keep walking past the CPDs in Maidenhead aquatics at bold healt… £4.50 each or 5 for £20. Thats a bit pricey if you ask me!
I’m hoping to breed a fair few.. maybe enough to put a large shoal in my 180 litre tank.
Hi maximumbob (simon) glad you could join us, the planted tank looks gorgeous…the spawning tanks looking great and i like the size, one thing to watch with the grid and Cpd’s..as they are so small and thin, if the grid does not reach the glass and leave’s even a slight gap then the fish can get underneath. I lost a spawn this way, i used a very large fat female and a well conditioned male, i came home to a very thin female that had obviously spawned and a male under the grid eating the last few eggs…Also watch the water level, i used to fill mine to within an inch of the top but lost 2 females due to jumping, i now leave a gap around 4 inches from the water level to the top of the tank.
It was nice to meet you last week and you are more than welcome to pop in for a chat (if you can stand the heat!!!!!)I know simon i keep looking at them aswell, i got talking to the assistant manager in there the other day, he recons that they may be wild caught!!!!! he came to this conclusion as someone pointed out two fish of another types of rasbora in the same shipment that originate from the same place in Myanmar.
He asked me if i knew about Celestials and was quite suprised to hear im a moderator on here (best forum around) and even more suprised that im actually breeding them, they even offered to take them off me in return for a credit note! very kind!!!!! they will offer 50p per fish then sell them for £4.50, id rather market them myself.
One good thing simon, if you get this breeding setup going then eventually we can swap fish between us and keep the bloodlines strong,i have wild males and captive bred females sourced directly from Pete Liptrot and Paul dixon.I have made up a few dark green spawning mops this morning.
I think I’ll have one floating long one at the top, and one smaller one left on the bottom. I might even work a little bit on tidying up those plastic canvas edges as well later on.
I put a pair in last night, within 10 minutes the male was underneath the mesh!!!! aaaarrrrrrggggg. I took it out in the end and put in a very large amount of mops, iv just checked on them and counted at least 10 eggs on the bottom, ill keep my eye on them and leave them in until they are finished.
any chance of a quick snap of your mop layout.
Just want to see what you mean by a lot!
I hope I have to make more mops… my sons loved it
Its a good job im sad and took a load of pics to share with you guys, my missus thinks im crazy, i fill the memory card within an hour and am running in and out loading them onto here.
I used about 10 small mops, the male had got under the mesh so i ripped it out and quickly grabbed the nearest thing to me, a large handful of mops that were lying unused next to the tanks. I just wanted plenty of cover for the fish to feel secure in. Mops are better than moss in a bare tank because they do not leave a load of bits when removed from the tank. I could not see the back of the tank and the fish obviously felt fine in there.
Todays spawn has been the biggest yet, i left them alone for 2 hours after i first saw the eggs, the female was very thin and hiding from the male. I removed the parents after this and removed the mops, the eggs simply fall out and are not adesive. I have counted at least 60-70 eggs in the tank and there is most probably a few more.
Im well chuffed and think this is quite a result. The female used was the largest of my four and had a very rounded stomach. I think you should be ok with or without the mesh as long as you are around to take out the fish when they finish. if you want to pop round to take a look first hand im in all day tomorrow(sunday)BREEDING MALE
BREEDING FEMALES, ONLY ONE WAS USED.
TOP ROW, CELESTIAL FRY IN RIGHT HAND SIDE, SECOND FROM RIGHT CONTAINS TODAYS EGGS.
MOPS
SOME OF THE EGG’S
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