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I normally use 2 males & 4 females in 5 gallon set-ups. Lots of moss, room temperature around 70F-72F.
Remove the adults after 5 to 7 days. In 3 to 5 days you should start to see fry.
Best of luck with your breding project!
Dennis
I’m not so sure there are crayfish in their natural environment… they probably don’t recognize them as a threat.
I have some adults in with full grown Marble crayfish about 4″ long. Knock on wood, but no problems yet. They have been housed together for months.
Dennis
The last I heard was that on January 21, 2008, Kevin Conway, Wei-Jen Chen and Richard Mayden of the University of Saint Louis moved Tyson Roberts‘ fish into the genus Danio under the name of Danio margaritatus after demonstrating it was actually a Danio closely related to erythromicron and not a member of a new genus.
Celestial Pearl Danio (Danio margaritatus)
Dennis
I don’t see a problem with the Otocinclus, but the Corydoras will eat all the eggs & fry they can find.
Dennis
Hi lake_tuna, welcome to the forum.
I don’t think you’ll have any problems with them in a 2 1/2 gallon tank… I set most of my breeders up in 5 gallon tanks.
Best of luck with your project!
Dennis
I try to feed live food several times a week. I rotate using daphnia, mosquito larvae, grindal worms, & banana worms.
Prepared diet consists of golden pearls, shrimp sticks, algae wafers and on rare occasions crushed color flake.
Breeders get more live than prepared and fry start off with green water/infusoria, then on to micro/walter/banana worms. Supplement with powered golden pearls as needed.
Dennis
In the case of Myanmar, it had been off-limits to the western world for quite sometime. While there are “new” Danios like Danio sp. TW01, Danio sp. TW02 (now Danio tinwini), Danio sp. TW03 (now Danio aesculapii), and of course the CPD, many of the fish that are new to the hobby were actually discovered many years ago and have simply been unavailable.
Dennis
I’ve seen a number of juveniles that went from Yellow – to – Orange – to – Red, but they all end up Red in the end.
With mine, it seems as though it takes the males much longer to mature. Most of my female fry are ready to spawn by 16 weeks. With the males it’s usually a bit longer.
Dennis
Nice looking Leopards snowyowl88!
Like Tom said, they will just eat the eggs or any fry that are produced. That’s a common trait with fish that spawn by scattering their eggs and especially with Danios.
You will probably continue to have aggression problems where one fish picks on the other as long as you only have 2 fish. Danios are schooling fish and behave much better in groups… the more the merrier. If you have room in your tank, I’d suggest you get at least 4 more Leopards so you have a minimum of 6 fish.
I’m currently keeping about 20 different types of Danios. I normally keep them in groups of 6 to 12 fish, in ten gallon tanks with great success.
Best of luck with your new fish!
ps; I changed the subject of this post to make it clear that’s it’s about fish other than CPD’s.
Dennis
@Tom2006 wrote:
very nice….what are they?
Dwarf Spotted Danio – (Danio Nigrofasciatus)
It’s another of the small Danios coming out of Myanmar.
Dennis
Those are great little fish… another Danio that’s perfect for a nano set-up!
I’ve got about a dozen of them that just spawned for me. They are very close to the same size as the CPD’s.
Dennis
@m.clausen wrote:
how do you keep the parents from eating the eggs/fry?
I either remove them from the tank or I use a trap to catch the eggs where the adults cannot get to them. I’m currently experimenting with using leaf litter in the bottom of the tank.
@m.clausen wrote:
and what are golden pearls and walter/banana worms?
Golden Pearls are a brine shrimp replacement diet that has successfully replaced live Artemia nauplii in marine fish hatcheries in Europe. I get mine from Ken’s Fish… http://www.kensfish.com They come is a variety of sizes. I normally use the smallest, (it’s like dust), for new fry and the 200-300 sizes for adult fish.
Walter and Banana worms are just different varieties of Nematode worms much like micro worms. Walter worms are smaller than micro worms and the Banana worms are larger. Adult CPD’s will eat these worms very aggressively too.
Dennis
@m.clausen wrote:
how do you condition your CPDs to breed?
I don’t actually separate and condition my CPD’s simply because they never stop spawning.
I do feed them live daphnia, grindal worms, and micro/walter/banana worms. I also feed Golden Pearls, shrimp pellets, algae wafers and crushed flakes.
@m.clausen wrote:
…what do you feed the fry when they hatch?
I start my fry with green water. After about a week I feed micro/walter/banana worms and powered Golden Pearls. As Tom said, they will eat micro-fauna from java moss too.
Best of luck with your breeding project!
Dennis
