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	Ackerz quote	subscribe [rss]	subscribe [email]	#1	Posted 01 May 2008, 3:00 pm
	Conditioning: If you decide to breed them, separate the sexes (if possible) and feed them well. The female rainbowfish will get chubby from the eggs developing inside. The males develop much brighter colors. Start warming them up a few degrees. Breeding: Mix your conditioned breeders in a non-brightly lit planted tank. Add Black Water Tonic to their tank(You can buy this from many good aquarium stores, read insructions). Keep them well fed. Rainbowfish usually spawn every morning for a week. The eggs stick to the plants (like killifish eggs). Most breeders ignore the eggs. Take out the parents after a week or they will likely eat the hatching fry. Some people say they don’t. Some people say lots of things. I see little reason to believe they wouldn’t eat their eggs also. Keep them well fed. Saving More Fry: Make a long mop of Orlon or Nylon strands. Attach the strands to a cork or anything that floats. Use this as their spawning site and remove the mop when you have enough eggs. Hatch them in their own 10-gallon tank. Or you can do the same thing with a bunch of hornwort -- with a lot less hassle. Fry Foods: Baby rainbowfish do best on infusoria. Some breeders feed them the powdered dry foods. After one or two weeks feed newly hatched shrimps or microworms. Add big snails to clean up the excess. THE TRICK TO ANY BREEDING IS TO BE PATIENT, PROVIDE GOOD CONDITION AND SIT BACK AND LET THEM SPAWN THEN SAVETHEIR BABIES IF NECERSARY From Ackerz original post: January 16, 2007, 4:30 pm Ackerz Sponsored links