Thanks for doing that experiment with exposing eggs/fry to light! I was really paranoid trying to block light and not checking my tank properly so I think I can relax about that now!!! Problem is I reused a grow out tank for a tiny killifish I found so there's already quite some debris at the bottom so I can't easily see eggs. My tetra looks a bit skinnier than yesterday though so I really want to check if anything happened...
@@AvatarAquatics i've got bits of debris like from the java moss at the bottom and i used some water from my pond, while fishing out the fish from there, so i can't really figure out which are eggs and which are just bits of things . i did see white things, but not 100% sure! i'm not really protecting everything from light, but it's in a rather shaded spot in the kitchen, and i dont put on the lights there in the evening.... fingers crossed i get a couple of tetra babies. i actually left the adults in there but i have made the mesh separator. if the adult looks skinny enough i will move them to another tank. normally they're out in my pond, but my population went from 23 to just 5 now in a span of months, no thanks to some kingfishers and maybe frogs.... so i'm hesitant to let them go back out. i need tetra babies!
Thank you for making this video. I have 3 neon tetra to show for in my last 6 runs of breeding. I have hatched hundreds of fries and cannot manage to keep them a live longer then 6-7 days. I recently had 3 pairs breed in 1g tubs. I took all 3 tubs and gently poured them into a 3.5g tank. Temp was at 24 degrees. After 3 days the bottom of the tank was littered with fries. I poured a 1/4 cup of green water in and they all died. I think I am polluting the water. I have not had success making infusoria.
Great video. I love that you've experimented to test out the various info you've read. Although I'm now working in a different industry, my education and a good part of my work experience was in intensive aquaculture. At one point I was running a salmonid broodstock hatchery and we would keep our upwelling incubators in the dark and when checking in on them we made sure we only exposed them to incandescent lighting.. With flourescent lighting we would experience die off of some of the eggs (before they had become eyed). I'm wondering if maybe the UV associated with flourescent lighting was the culprit and if that's where the rumour came from. Were you feeding Artemia salina or Artemia franciscana? I wonder if franciscana would be accepted as a first food, although I'm confident that the survival rate with infusoria as a first food would be better.
Would you reckon substituting methylene blue with homemade tannin from dried botanicals like those commercial “dark water extract” would work as effective? Of course one has to consider the water used to brew said extract to be soft enough. I was curious since tannic acid has anti fungal and bacterial property as well, and it is “organic”, as much as I don’t like to throw that word around.
Today I saw a few little( about 2 millimetres)clear fish in my community tank, I am trying to figure out if they are fry of platys, if my recently bought dwarf gourami was pregnant when we got them, of if it is fry of my cardinal tetras
Great video. What is here interesting for me, is that many breeders are breeding cardinals at the temperature of 24-25C. I see you are doing at 29C. What is the better or more efficient? Do you know? Did you try with 24-25C?
Spawned for me when I raised it to 29C, but I’m sure exact temp is not that important vs what your specific cardinals are used to and comfortable with.
Hi Marko, in my opinion: yes, it helps a lot. This is from experience with spawning Rummynose Tetras, they are far more likely to spawn at 29-30c than anything lower. I would suspect Cardinal Tetras are the same. Goodluck :)
Really enjoy the knowledge you share. Really simple. I have a 10 gallon tank with cherry shrimp. Would they help keep the eggs mold free or don't bother? I will probably move the shrimp to another tank and begin my journey into breeding these guys.
@@WildCastOutdoors looking over your videos again, makes sense. Going to give it a whirl. Let you know if I am successful or not. Thanks for the tips and advice!
Hi there! Great videos thank you man. Just wanted to clarify: do you take 'day 1' as 24 hrs after eggs laid? Or as the day the eggs are laid? Cheers. PS might help to clarify the videos in this series with (Part 1) and (Part 2) in the titles, cheers!
Thank you so much I love the way you explain every little detail I’m planning on trying to spawn my cardinal tetras so I hope that it works! I have very hard water and don’t live close enough to a fish store ☹️ are there any other ways do you think I can demineralize the water for my cardinals? Thanks!
Thank you for the video. Do you need to transition the tetras from hard water to soft water slowly or can it be from one to the other immediately? Thanks again.
@@AvatarAquatics thank you for the fast response. How about the adults when moving them from their normal tank to breeding tank? I love your videos, keep up the great work!
Hi! So, my cardinal tetras spawned in my tank! I wasn’t really prepared but I’ll do my best to care for the fry. I have a question though, after what day should I start feeding infusoria to the fry? I’m assuming they hatched anywhere between Sunday-Monday. Any help will be really appreciated!
@@AvatarAquatics Thanks so much, have been wanting to try cardinals for forever. So straight RO water, and peat? So you basically have a few mature conditioned pairs and then take them out first sign of eggs?and sorry last thing will palm peat work?
Thanks for the video, I’ve tried to breed my neon tetras last week but failed, both male and female died in the setup breeding tank, my main tank is 22 degree PH around 6.5, I’ve dropped them straight to my breeding tank, which is 26 degree PH around 6, with no air stone, was that the problem? Felt really really bad.....
Hard to tell. Neons will prefer some form of acclimation. The temperature change and pH swing may have been a factor, but could also be oxygenation or stress of a new environment. Neon tetras are famous for dying
@@piercecowley255 You said nothing is more true that neon tetra will die of anything! Absolutely wrong!!! The answer lies in very uncompromised, suitable water needed by them! You will be surprised how hardy they're, if you keep them in the water they are evolved for!
@@tenyeeching2217 oh,ok, I meant that they are super sensitive to changes in water parameters, that alot of other popular fish for beginners can withstand
Gave the Moss Method a try after several failures with other Methods - Worked great ! Hatched tonight ! Thank you very very much !
Cardinal Tetras are my favorite shoaling fish, this is excellent!!
Great video! The scientific method is very much appreciated!
Wow 🤩 such a great video ♥️ I love it 🥰
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What great videos! How do you not have more followers?! Definitely the most comprehensive videos I've found on breeding Cardinal Tetras!
Man, loved it
Thanks for doing that experiment with exposing eggs/fry to light! I was really paranoid trying to block light and not checking my tank properly so I think I can relax about that now!!! Problem is I reused a grow out tank for a tiny killifish I found so there's already quite some debris at the bottom so I can't easily see eggs. My tetra looks a bit skinnier than yesterday though so I really want to check if anything happened...
you can look for unfertilized white eggs as a sign of breeding
@@AvatarAquatics i've got bits of debris like from the java moss at the bottom and i used some water from my pond, while fishing out the fish from there, so i can't really figure out which are eggs and which are just bits of things . i did see white things, but not 100% sure! i'm not really protecting everything from light, but it's in a rather shaded spot in the kitchen, and i dont put on the lights there in the evening.... fingers crossed i get a couple of tetra babies. i actually left the adults in there but i have made the mesh separator. if the adult looks skinny enough i will move them to another tank. normally they're out in my pond, but my population went from 23 to just 5 now in a span of months, no thanks to some kingfishers and maybe frogs.... so i'm hesitant to let them go back out. i need tetra babies!
Thank you for making this video. I have 3 neon tetra to show for in my last 6 runs of breeding. I have hatched hundreds of fries and cannot manage to keep them a live longer then 6-7 days.
I recently had 3 pairs breed in 1g tubs. I took all 3 tubs and gently poured them into a 3.5g tank. Temp was at 24 degrees. After 3 days the bottom of the tank was littered with fries. I poured a 1/4 cup of green water in and they all died.
I think I am polluting the water. I have not had success making infusoria.
Your video is very informative!
Thanks so much!
maravilloso♥
very informative :)
Great video! You know what you are talking about :-) Greetings from Germany! BTW. I am breeding Nannostomus mortenthaleri at the moment...
thx
Great video, I'm getting ready to try breeding some, but need to get my greenwater ready first.
My green water is on the go, now I am about to have it a lower pH. It is outside, hope it will do ok
Great video. I love that you've experimented to test out the various info you've read. Although I'm now working in a different industry, my education and a good part of my work experience was in intensive aquaculture. At one point I was running a salmonid broodstock hatchery and we would keep our upwelling incubators in the dark and when checking in on them we made sure we only exposed them to incandescent lighting.. With flourescent lighting we would experience die off of some of the eggs (before they had become eyed). I'm wondering if maybe the UV associated with flourescent lighting was the culprit and if that's where the rumour came from. Were you feeding Artemia salina or Artemia franciscana? I wonder if franciscana would be accepted as a first food, although I'm confident that the survival rate with infusoria as a first food would be better.
Would you reckon substituting methylene blue with homemade tannin from dried botanicals like those commercial “dark water extract” would work as effective? Of course one has to consider the water used to brew said extract to be soft enough. I was curious since tannic acid has anti fungal and bacterial property as well, and it is “organic”, as much as I don’t like to throw that word around.
Today I saw a few little( about 2 millimetres)clear fish in my community tank, I am trying to figure out if they are fry of platys, if my recently bought dwarf gourami was pregnant when we got them, of if it is fry of my cardinal tetras
Amazing content.
Hi Many thanks for th great video, does the fry tank have a filet at all
Great video, thanks! =)
Great video. What is here interesting for me, is that many breeders are breeding cardinals at the temperature of 24-25C. I see you are doing at 29C. What is the better or more efficient? Do you know? Did you try with 24-25C?
Spawned for me when I raised it to 29C, but I’m sure exact temp is not that important vs what your specific cardinals are used to and comfortable with.
Hi Marko, in my opinion: yes, it helps a lot. This is from experience with spawning Rummynose Tetras, they are far more likely to spawn at 29-30c than anything lower. I would suspect Cardinal Tetras are the same. Goodluck :)
Really enjoy the knowledge you share. Really simple. I have a 10 gallon tank with cherry shrimp. Would they help keep the eggs mold free or don't bother? I will probably move the shrimp to another tank and begin my journey into breeding these guys.
Best to wait till fry are free swimming for a few weeks before adding the shrimp. Usually the acidic breeding water eats away at the shrimp shells
@@WildCastOutdoors looking over your videos again, makes sense. Going to give it a whirl. Let you know if I am successful or not. Thanks for the tips and advice!
@@donengle1220 Keep me updated!
Great video :). Im trying to breed ember tetra. Do you think the same setup work for them? Low ph ~6.7, temp around 28°c
what day do you change the water? did they start eating infusoria after 4 days did you do a gradual water change?
Hi there! Great videos thank you man. Just wanted to clarify: do you take 'day 1' as 24 hrs after eggs laid? Or as the day the eggs are laid? Cheers. PS might help to clarify the videos in this series with (Part 1) and (Part 2) in the titles, cheers!
I start counting days exactly when the eggs are laid
Thank you so much I love the way you explain every little detail I’m planning on trying to spawn my cardinal tetras so I hope that it works! I have very hard water and don’t live close enough to a fish store ☹️ are there any other ways do you think I can demineralize the water for my cardinals? Thanks!
Distilled water from the grocery store!!
@@AvatarAquatics thank you very much! Have a nice night and keep producing those beautiful Cardinals!
Thank you for the video.
Do you need to transition the tetras from hard water to soft water slowly or can it be from one to the other immediately?
Thanks again.
Slowly, don’t transition until you can see their full stripes and they’re healthy ~1.5-2cm
@@AvatarAquatics thank you for the fast response.
How about the adults when moving them from their normal tank to breeding tank?
I love your videos, keep up the great work!
Is it right that Paracheirodon Axelrodi can't spawn anymore after being in contact with hard water one time?
Nope it’s a myth.
can the fry survive on micro organisms already existing in the aquarium?
Hi! So, my cardinal tetras spawned in my tank! I wasn’t really prepared but I’ll do my best to care for the fry. I have a question though, after what day should I start feeding infusoria to the fry?
I’m assuming they hatched anywhere between Sunday-Monday. Any help will be really appreciated!
4th day after eggs were laid
Um, none of your "Upper right corner" links are working.
How do you know when to pull the parents out using the peat moss method, and when hatching fry in the peat do you still use meth blue
If you see Unfertilized/white eggs - trust me they will be apparent. And no the peat moss is naturally anti fungal
@@AvatarAquatics Thanks so much, have been wanting to try cardinals for forever. So straight RO water, and peat? So you basically have a few mature conditioned pairs and then take them out first sign of eggs?and sorry last thing will palm peat work?
Do neocaridine shrimps eat fish eggs ?
No
@@AvatarAquatics Thank you :D
Thanks for the video, I’ve tried to breed my neon tetras last week but failed, both male and female died in the setup breeding tank, my main tank is 22 degree PH around 6.5, I’ve dropped them straight to my breeding tank, which is 26 degree PH around 6, with no air stone, was that the problem? Felt really really bad.....
Hard to tell. Neons will prefer some form of acclimation. The temperature change and pH swing may have been a factor, but could also be oxygenation or stress of a new environment. Neon tetras are famous for dying
@@AvatarAquatics “tetras are famous for dying” nothing is more true, they will die of anything
@@piercecowley255 You said nothing is more true that neon tetra will die of anything! Absolutely wrong!!! The answer lies in very uncompromised, suitable water needed by them! You will be surprised how hardy they're, if you keep them in the water they are evolved for!
@@tenyeeching2217 oh,ok, I meant that they are super sensitive to changes in water parameters, that alot of other popular fish for beginners can withstand
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