How to Hatch and Raise Rainbow Fish
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2019
- If you like rainbow fish and you've ever wanted to breed them, this is the video to show you everything you need to know from getting eggs through the first month of life in raising your baby rainbows!
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I really hope you all enjoyed this! If you're planning to hatch your own rainbows a great cheap option for a hatchery is a breeder box like this: amzn.to/2McNb4F
For those interested in the rings I am using, those come from Swiss Tropicals: www.swisstropicals.com/filtration-shop/better-fishkeeping-supplies/
Bentley could a person just move the mop to a small well oxygenated tank and let the eggs hatch off the mop?
@@kerrypitt9789 yes, but there's some worry of fungus or too much movement.
@@BentleyPascoe understood thanks so much. Sharing this video.
A small paint brush is handy in a fish room. Also good to wipe then feed micro worms from the side of the container you have your culture in.
Bentley,
Great vid. 👍👍.
I do things a bit differently. When I was younger, I never understood the old guys saying that they didn’t pick or count eggs. I’m happy to say that I have arrived! At 52, I no longer pick or count eggs. At least mostly I don’t. With rainbows, I simply set up a natural tank, complete with algae, plants, substrate, and shrimp. I let the parents spawn on mops for two weeks and then remove them. The fry grow up in a large tank, 30 gallons. The advantage is that the fry can be left unfed for longer periods of time. I breed fish in my classroom. This means that they don’t get live bbs on the weekends and during vacations. This also allows me to grow out multiple species. Last year I had sexable Aytinjo and Congo tetras in seven months.
Also, I have found that ram’s horn snails will not eat fish eggs. Ymmv😉
Cheers,
Chris
These videos have been super helpful. I am trying my second batch and they seem to be doing well and eating vigorously. Thanks again!
Great video Bentley. Very helpful!
Learned a lot. Thanks Bentley!
Thank you again for sharing this awesomely helpful info! I really appreciate the RBF care and breeding tips!
Very educational, thanks Bentley.
Ordered some of these rings. What a great idea!!
Such great info -- thanks again!!!
Thanks so much for this video! Everyone talking breeding gets you to the hatch and then drops ya there, while raising the fry is the actual hard part lol
Thank you for sharing! I learned a lot! - Little Bobby
Great job making the video! Thank you :)
Thankyou for a great video, I have just got back in to fish and have got 5 crimson spot rainbows and will look to breeding in the future.
Thanks for the info. Just got my first rainbows. I got 10 goyder rivers on aqua bid that came from Gary Lange eggs. Lots to think about.
Very very well done, thank you.
Great video mate 4 weeks ago I took a bit of java fern out my big tank to put in my betta tank.Next thing I knew I had fry in there don't know how many my betta eat but a pulled 7 out they are still going strong.Think they might be forktails or neon rainbows.Av only been in the hobby for 2 years well chuffed 👍
Picked up a pair of Madagascar rainbows last week. Would have gone for a group, but there was only one female. I'll get more next time they're available. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome tips....👍
Great video! I breed boesemani, maccullochi eubenangee, trifaciata running creek, praecox and madagascar. So far not much success with the madagascar so i just put every single egg in a test tube and lets wait now. i usually put the mops every week in a 2.5g and they stay there 2 weeks so i do a rotation with 4 mops per breed. once the fish get big enough i transfer them to a 5 and later a 20g. I feed live babybrine, frozen rotifer and frozen cyclops. frozen food usually once they hit 3/4 inch. I have microworms for some tetras but dont use them with rainbow because they sink and rainbows stay at the surface generally. for the first 2 weeks i feed them a reed plankton product. works better then powder food
I’m going to be breeding kamaka rainbow fish soon, I remember when I was a teenager I actually managed to get at least ten to hatch but they didn’t make it past the first week unfortunately. This time I’m definitely going to be following up with all the care requirements and hopefully raise them to adulthood
i put mops in with my breeders.leave then in for 5 days .then the mops go in a ten gallon tank with a sponge.i do have one 10 gallon tank without any air or filter.it has a bio film and seed shrimp in the tank.it seem to be doing just as good as the rest.i start feed micro worms and green water for a week then i switch to ground up flake food. when most of the fry get to 1 to 1 1/2 inches then the go in to a 40 or a more gallon.i have few fry that hatched in my Australian Rainbow breeding and are doing well.as far as what i want to breed.i just got in some Turquoise Rainbow fish and Millennium Rainbow fish.
I love the Threadfin Rainbows. I was very fortunate to find some females. Seems only males are sold. Anyway I would love to try to breed these. However I'm very very new to rainbows. This video is is a big help. Thank you.
I love that you say most of the fry will not live I try very hard on weekends to pick eggs and about 1/4 of fry Dont survive. Thanks again
Thanks for this info. I've seen it before but watched it today because I had a surprise spawn of Turquoise Rainbowfish. I put a spawning mop in for the rummynose tetras (so I thought). I turned a few lights on around midday to do a couple of water changes and saw the turquoise male with a bright orange stripe down it's head and back. It was quite a sight!
It's very striking isn't it? That bright reddish orange stripe on a fish we normally see as pure blue. Such a sight!
@@BentleyPascoe Yes, at first I thought something was wrong. I didn't know they changed color like that. I had no intention of spawning any of the rainbows but I'm going to give it a go.
Thank you for the tips and info, Bentley. Appreciate the time and effort you put in to making these videos.
Can you tells us the type of breeding stations those are (how to search, if not brand)?
It's called a German Breeding Ring and Swiss Tropicals carries them
Thank you, Bentley. 😊
Amazing. Trying to breed mine too
GREAT ! To the point with NO BS 1
Great vid , I am breeding rainbows, not so professional and certainly not for a profit. I have a 30 gallon in which I put 1 pair for a week with a mob and after a week the parents go back in the community tank , the first fry are swimming around, I put in a breeder box net and reduce the flow, I scoop the free swimmers with a plastic cup and put them in the net ,this is to more reduce ment of flow and now I can feed them more direct. For food I use sera micron and after 2 weeks a powder with special tiny fry food which should replace baby brine but I agree live babybrine is better, now I buy extra for 2 times a week 180 ml bags of livebabybrine and feed it extra . After a month I release them to enjoy the tank. Now I have a few fry growing out from the aiinjo and the garylangei. With both pairs I counted about 60 fry and I have now from both species only 5 and 6 left. For me plenty but the rest just died like you said they would and I keep them in a heavily planted tank with some predators possible.
I keep with the fry a school ( 10) of corydoras pygmeus because I like them and they eat the fry food that sinks. They might predate on some of the fry. I like the experience to raise your own fish , it can make you appreciate your fish even more. In My community tank( rainbows) the preacox community breed, I mean : in that heavy overgrown corner I can scoop out fry every day if I want to. Love my rainbows.
I have 40 Boesemani about 3 months old
I plucked 90 eggs from my spawning mop,kept them in a dish floating in my betta tank(80f)with dark almond tea water until they hatched.
All but one hatched,and they are now 5 months old with a few losses and zero deformities.
Mostly males,and the ones I did lose were my own fault for putting them into a Ziss breeder box at a few weeks old.
They all swam through the wire mesh and some got eaten before I could scoop them out of that tank.
Apparently Rainbowfish fry are even too small for breeder boxes!
Lesson learned.
Not sure if it’s my water(well water),or pure luck,but I have no problems breeding rainbows in northern Canada,and so far no deformities.
I feel fortunate after listening to so many stories of losses and I hatched eggs.
Thanks
I was cleaning my 6’ tank that had water sprite kicked up to the top. Decided to throw the sprite in my 10 gallon shrimp tank and let the shrimp clean it a bit. Left it in there and about a week later I see these little dude. Only see 4 but I was amazed lol had no idea how this happen considering there’s never been fish in this tank. Nature always finds a way (:
Guess I’ll just grind up some tetra flake food and try to feed them
Love it! FIRST!
Thanks Keng!
Great video, but what kind of floating hatcheries are those? I need those in my life, like yesterday! I feel like those would work for my German Rams. I have fungus issues, every time, in my marina hang on hatchery! Love the content, as always! ♥️♥️
Link is pinned in my comment for them
@@BentleyPascoe Thanks for the links. Gonna buy AT LEAST one of the rings too... 40 bucks with shipping is a steal, if after months, I can finally get to the wiggler stage, of one of these spawns. Somehow I knew these would be perfect for GBR eggs, but with your knowledge, do you think they would work for angel eggs also? My 2 marbles started spawning last month, but have eaten them twice and I can't move the parents out of the tank... HONESTLY, any advice would be GREATLY APPRECIATED, about the hatching rings, or otherwise! Stay awesome! ♥️🐟😀
nice Vid, where did you get this style of breeding tank? who makes it?
The ring is from Swiss Tropicals. They call it a German breeding ring.
Awesome advice on breeding rainbows. 👍
Thank you for sharing.
Moving and making more spawning mops are easier.
Do you have a rule of thumb with reference to amount of water needed for room for optimal growth. Eg. 1 fish per 1 gallon?
Does the height of water column affect growth rates?
How high should water column be?
Can you keep feeding powdered food after 2 weeks when you start live bbs?
When do you start water changes and how often and amounts removed?
Is plants necessary for growing up the fry?
Any other advice would be appreciated.
The water column can be higher, I would generally suggest these tank sizes: 10g up until 3 months, 20g Tall or 20g Long up until 2-2.5" (roughly 9 months). I do keep feeding powdered foods along with live brine, typically powder once a day and a healthy live brine once a day (morning preferred so they can swim around through the day). Height of water column doesn't have much effect in my experience, just room to swim as they grow. Minimal water changes, unless in a custom protected hatchery. If you can carefully do water changes (I put a fine mesh screen on my python and drain slow, then fill about as slowly as I possibly can), I would try 25% per week, up to 50% per week, but you MUST make sure that water is nearly the exact temperature as the water in the tank. more then 1 degree in difference can shock fish a month or less in age. Plants are not necessary, but help product extra micro organisms for feeding.
@@BentleyPascoe
Thank you for advice.👍
Could you do video on making spawning mops ?
I'm new to fish breeding. I'm only doing white clouds /platys/swordtails. For now I have a pair of paradise fish that I want to breed but the male has injured him self trying to jump out the tank and I think he will die. But one day I wanna do rainbows they are stunning fish .thanks for the video 👍
I use a small established tank. Add swamping mops and best rainbow pair. After 7-10 days remove the adults and add a couple of drops of methylene blue. Then enjoy raising the fry for the next 2 years
Just tried to breed my Murray River rainbows, put them into their own breeder tank and picked eggs off their breeder mop, got a good amount over a few days and was putting them in a bowl of tank water like i did for neons. Well, i figured I'd had enough eggs for this run and is put the adults back into their main tank. Went to look to look at their bowl after I'd finished and my very helpful child had dumped eucalyptus leaf tea from another project into it! He even picked eggs and put them into the bowl on days i couldn't so i don't know what he was thinking! I'm very frustrated but I'm going to see how things play out. Who knows? Even if only a few hatch, i would still consider it a success.
Short of an egg mop, would they spawn in moss or a thick jungle like planted tank?
Thank you for the education.
Yes
For people that are more casual and not as hardcore about pulling a profit, I hatched a lot of Pseudomugil gertrudae without a mop, just using a thick clump of java moss, I didn't even take it out, I had a massive amount of plants, not even close to scaped, just a great tangled mass, ambulia, hornwort, narrow leaf anacharis, and wisteria, with floaters, mostly duckweed (kept a little thinner for surface visibility). Every day I would check the surface carefully and I would just find babies, I used a small plastic cup and you dip it fast right in front of the fry and the water rushing in will suck it up. After a few weeks I quit collecting babies, I had over 20 and was worried I'd end up with too many. Being my first tank and new to the hobby, raising my fry was a massive fail, I killed all of them unfortunately, I just really didn't have the setup for it. Gonna try again soon once I have some bigger tanks going and can go in a little more prepared
You can do it! Just keep trying and you'll slowly figure out the problems. I have issues too, we all do.
I would like to pick eggs. It does sound relaxing. I would have to leave them in a green water tank. I use the cylinder baby brine hatchery so i can feed 2 times a day once they can accept baby brine. I need to get Melanotaenia Ammeri and breed those. Im a sucker for yellow.
If you can find them, look at M. Bowmani - they have a paler yellow, but when they color up they have red pinstripes - very pretty. Males and females all have color.
Babies!!! :)
Did you ever make a video on how to make a spawning mop?
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So, I put a mop in my community tank with both forktails and dwarf neon rainbows. I got eggs... who laid them and does it matter in how they are hatched/raised? BTW love the video, great advice.
Most likely the dwarf neons, but could be both. Both species can raise similar to my how to raise rainbow steps, so you should be ok
Glossolepis maculosus, have you had any experience with them? would be an awesome to breed.
I had some eggs from Gary Lange for them at one point, but lost them all. I will eventually get them again as they're a rainbow I love the pattern for. It was a painful learning lesson on these rings
@@BentleyPascoe sorry i searched your videos after i posted that comment and found your past video, i wasn't trying to be rude, cheers for content i have learned alot and will keep an eye out for a future video of yours on this species.
@@unspokenfishkeeping3100 No worries, the best way to learn is through screwing up right? It taught me quite a lot about the rings I use.
Bentley I have no idea how I missed this I apologize! Especially since I intend to have Rainbow Fish one day.
This video alone should bring more subscribers, so even though I am a month late I hope others who love Rainbows and see this, will not only thumbs up you, but will subscribe to your amazing work as both an Aquarist and as an an aquatic Horticulturist.
Free information is such a blessing for so many of us.
I have accident babies off of a plant. I'm brand new to aquariums . I have had like 45 of them. I've bern using egg yolk to feed because I have no clue and its a pandemic and were in lockdown. I was thinking of adding my cherry shrimp to help clean the tank I know you said that they are good for eggs but will they harm the babies? thanks!
Nope, should do great but as the rainbows hit 1" they will start picking off shrimp
I just found at least 6 turquoise rainbows in my extracted plants that have been in a bucket for 6 days. I've been adding a bit of RO water each day. I was not expecting fry, I have not raised rainbows before. Wouldn't one of those disposable coffee filters clamped to the side and top of the tank work well?
Maybe? A breeder box might be easier long term
@@BentleyPascoe That makes sense, but I've got 10 fry confirmed now , and I'm not really prepared.....Im happy I have a cycled 10g with two tetras in it that I can use, somehow. It looks the mesh on my breading cage/net might be fine enough mesh to hold them.....I have to figure out what to do in the next few hours....
Got my first banded rainbow eggs this morning put them in my egg tumbler
Do they lay egg sacks? I had two rainbows in quarantine, a week later I notice teeny tiny babies. I noticed what looked like egg sacks on random plants and by the sponge filter.
No, they will scatter eggs, so you usually see very small eggs all over a plant or mop
hi I want to ask is this fish spawn continuously or how long apart? If I want to produce 1000 fish per month, how many brood will be needed
It's pretty common to get daily spawns of around 20-40 eggs per day, depending on the species and age of adult
Were did you find the round fry boxes?
Swiss tropicals: German breeding rings.
Hello Bentley, What size are your German breeder rings? 6" or 4"?
6
@@BentleyPascoe Thank you so much for the prompt response.
I really want the Wapoga C. Alleni. Hoping to set a 125 for rainbows in the future. Still researching. Also Bently, sorry, I thought I subscribed a long time ago. More YT shenanigans maybe?
Where do I get some of those rings i like
Swiss Tropicals carries them
So you just use a regular old cotton mop?
Acrylic. Cotton will slowly disintegrate
sooo I would still consider myself a bit of a beginner. I fell out of the hobby for a little while but I've had tanks for maybe 4 or 5 years? I bought a beautiful bunch of melanotaenia australis from a local, and they were spawning like crazy in my 55 gallon. The adults unfortunately got ich and were moved into a quarantine so all the eggs hatched. I do have pond snails, a nerite and 2 large mystery snails as well as a small colony of cherry shrimp. Im culturing green water for their first couple weeks, I DID NOT REALISE THE GROW OUT TIME!! but I feel like Im already too invested to back out now.. I suppose I just want to see if I am capable of raising fry.. any advice is welcome :) my adults are all hanging out in my 30gallon/120L. they're getting fed 2-3 times daily from the phytoplankton culture, they differ in terms of size, but they're active and I'm seeing growth, i.e. hints of a tail fin.
It helps to be in Australia NSW as we are all in lockdown, forced to work and study from home, allowing me to do frequent feeds.
You're already in the right path, at about 3-4 weeks you can switch to live baby brine shrimp if it's easily available to you, but don't be afraid to feed phytoplankton still for one or two feedings.
@@BentleyPascoe thankyou! Im already getting way too excited and messaging LFS to see if they are interested in buying them even though they wont be ready till next year :D hahah
Hi will ich x affect hatching eggs or fry?
I have not seen issues, just use very small amounts
@@BentleyPascoe thank you!🙂
I'd like to breed my boesemani and splendida
This is what I see in my tank. It is about 1/8 “. I’m thinking it is my rainbow but it is much bigger than you are showing. How do I send you a pic?
Email: bentley.pascoe@gmail.com
@ 8:14 there is a small work sliding up the glass. What is that??
because of the focus on the camera it looks a little weird, that's a very tiny malaysian trumpet snail baby.
Can fry from 1 to 10 days old eat Infusoria? and how much is the loss rate of the fish to adulthood, thank you
Yes they can survive on infusoria or green water as well. It depends on your personal regime, I know some people who lose less than 5%, but they have very good feeding regimes. The biggest problem is rainbows have effectively 0 yolk sac, so they need food almost immediately and fairly often to survive at that rate. I typically saw about 25% losses in the first 2 weeks when I raised babies in the past, but some species I would lose nearly 90%.
@@BentleyPascoe hi, i need to ask you are rainbowfish (Melanotaenia boesemani)
. What is the survival rate because I focus on making this product
@@dientrung9948 I have very good success with Boesemani, it's all about getting the feel for raising them. At first you might lose 20%, but eventually you'll lose very few
@@BentleyPascoe thank you for giving me more confidence and I would like to ask you how many months on average Boeseman reaches size from 6cm to 7cm thank you very much
@@dientrung9948 depends on swim space and feeding, bigger grow out tanks lead to faster growth, but in general if you're using something like a 20g, I would say about 6 months.
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Let’s talk about your hatchery set up
I'll be moving mops to 2.5 gallon tanks.
Make that a "small worm" sliding up the glass
I can't raise big rainbows, I got some furcatas going like crazy tho
I would seem to have accidently bred my Turquoise Rainbow fish - I had them in quarantine and my daughter moved them into my big tank while I was out of town. Three weeks later, I have three tiny fry in my neglected 10 gallon quarantine tank! They seem to be thriving, would frozen brine shrimp work for them? Seems like a lot to raise them for three fry... lol (I did get a powder food for now.)
It should work at about 2 weeks and older
@@BentleyPascoe I'm scared to do more than just feed them the nano fry food at this point. Their little tummies are full and they seem very lively and happy. The tank was just left running while I was out of town (complete with snails!). It has a sponge filter. I don't know how old the fry are, I didn't even check the tank for at least a week after I got home, I left it up while I was deciding what to do with the snails. They are at least five days old, as that is when I first saw them! It's a mature tank, so I guess plenty of infusoria just naturally. So fun, they are starting to come to the side of the tank when I go in to feed them. :)
Why I even listen that BS. I hatched and raised rainbow fish in heavy planted aquarium I even didn't know they hatched never give them baby shrimp. Just always using a live food in my aquarium and always give them some different type.
It’s easy to raise them mate it’s not complicated what so ever. You don’t need a hang on back. Why pick the eggs and risk damaging them? It’s ridiculous mare. Get a 100 litre fry tank. Use one with two light bulbs. Pull the spawning mobs out every 8 days and put them in the fry tank opposite two sponge filters using low power but causing surface agitation. Leave one light on 24 hours a day and the fry when they hatch hang around it. Keep the temp at 27 degrees c and make sure water is exactly the same as the main tank. Use water changes for fry tank using main tank water. You’ve made all this so complicated I’m just like wtf is the bloke doing lol. Make your move using yawn acrylic. Replace them every week once you pull the mobs and you’ll have constant fry every week. I must have about 700 fry if not more in 3 months. Hang on backs are absolute dog shit and a waste of money. Two sponges( large) low power from air pump Is all you need. Don’t catch the fry using anything I’m completely against it. They are so small and stress will kill them and they are so easy to damage. Just trying to catch them at a day old will finish a few of them off. Using rings is a no no! Use a fry tank! You’re messing around with rings probably getting 10 or 20 if you’re lucky. Do it my way and head towards 1000 fry. You do the classic mistake most people do thinking they are easier to feed its nonsense. You’re actually risking polluting the water even if you can’t see rotting food. The little trickle of water isn’t enough not with lots of fry.
living baby brine