Breeding Neon Tetras - Over 100 Fry!

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  • Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2024

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  • @rickfromthecape3135
    @rickfromthecape3135 2 месяца назад +159

    There was an older gentleman who owned a small local fish store where I grew up. He introduced me to the hobby years ago. He used to breed neons for his shop and what he did was fill the bottom of the tank (ten gallon) with small marbles. The eggs would easily fall through the gaps between the marbles and the adults couldn't fit through.

    • @FlokieLooney
      @FlokieLooney 2 месяца назад +6

      yea marbles can work great

    • @mich421
      @mich421 2 месяца назад +10

      You can use a mosquito net for windows I tried it it works

    • @ThePauloCIlas
      @ThePauloCIlas 2 месяца назад +7

      That's how we do it in Brazil

    • @BadlydrawnBen
      @BadlydrawnBen 2 месяца назад +13

      I knew an old guy in the 80s who used the marble method in an old bathtub to breed thousands of neons

    • @AldousHIIT
      @AldousHIIT 2 месяца назад

      Did you use methylene blue?

  • @mt1541
    @mt1541 2 месяца назад +32

    Wonderful video! I'm a 54 year old fish nerd, and I am just so pleased to see a younger person with such passion for fish! You're sharing excellent information in an easy to absorb format. Thank you so much! I especially enjoy watching your videos because I'm dealing with cancer and don't have the energy to continue experimenting with fish breeding and keeping myself, but it's almost as much fun getting to watch you do it. Your videos take me to a happy fishy place where I can forget the difficulties of life for a time, and that is a real gift! I wish you much success and joy with your fishy endeavors, and I hope you get to have many, many happy years sharing your fish knowledge.

    • @mhunt7843
      @mhunt7843 2 месяца назад +4

      My prayers are with you as you face your challenge! Wish I could do more.

  • @davidfromsurin7672
    @davidfromsurin7672 Месяц назад +4

    Great vid. I breed danios and the process is very similar. Like you, when I started I was only getting 10-20 fry at a time until I found out the best game changing method of adding a mesh basket suspended half way down the 5 gallon tank. This will allow the eggs to fall through and not be eaten. It also allows you to leave the parents in for 2,3,4 days or until you see fry sticking to the glass. The remove the parents. My last batch 8 days ago I had 6 danios in one tank and it resulted in 527 fry. Yep I counted each and every one of them. Good luck. Neons are my next fish to try and breed.

  • @seangere9698
    @seangere9698 Месяц назад +7

    With most small Tetra species i find it is best to mark the pairs that successfully breed, if it is their first time breeding for you, and breed them a few times to get more fry. Ofcourse keep trying to breed other pairs. Then once you have 100 or so wait till they are almost old enough to breed and start pulling out the best looking ones and get them set up in 5gl tanks with only a couple of the same sex, 5 to 10. Once they are sexualy mature pair them up in separate tanks. Also i have found to have a large carpet of Java moss covering the entire bottom of the tank. Wait till midday after introduced to one another and pull the pair even if you don't see any spon. Wait a few days and recondition them for another spawn. Repeat this a couple of times, making sure to put the same pairs together each time. Once you have had a couple of successful spawns from a pair give them a week off then start conditioning them again and switch the pairs. Breed them 3 or so times for each possible pair. Then at the end only keep the best of the best from each spawn. And start over again. Doing it this way keeps them from inbreeding too much and keeps them healthier and your breeding project going longer and more stable.
    Neons and Cardinal Tetras are my two favorite Tetra species with Blacklight Tetras as my third favorite.

  • @jlathem56
    @jlathem56 2 месяца назад +15

    This fish is definitely in the top 5 list of fish I want to breed one day.
    Thanks for sharing your experiences.

  • @audrameyer9558
    @audrameyer9558 2 месяца назад +3

    I came for the fish but the dog stole my heart 🥰 Gorgeous pup!

  • @ZenCoryCat
    @ZenCoryCat 2 месяца назад +12

    I love these breeding videos. Thank you!

  • @sereiu
    @sereiu 2 месяца назад +9

    Congratulations man, your work is fantastic, I'm your fan, your work with the neon tetras is fantastic. 🤩🤩🤩

  • @FaultAndDakranon
    @FaultAndDakranon 2 месяца назад +6

    I bought bug buffet from you, and I haven't met a fish that didn't love it. You were right, the quality is worth the price ❤

    • @AndrewFishman
      @AndrewFishman 2 месяца назад

      Nice to see this review. Thanks for taking the time. I am interested myself :)

  • @brunocampos5828
    @brunocampos5828 2 месяца назад +3

    Poor Sam... He was enjoying his best life 🤣🤣🤣

  • @AfiiPlay11
    @AfiiPlay11 Месяц назад +2

    Finally, In our nearest aquarium, they have neon tetras. I bought a pair of them. They're so small, difficult to find if ones a female. Anyway I'm glad to have them. I wanna raise them right.

  • @Natarii123
    @Natarii123 2 месяца назад +11

    Really great to see the whole process of trial and error. Definitely helps me to understand the work of small stores maintaining stock.

  • @ericb4492
    @ericb4492 2 месяца назад +5

    As someone else mentioned, i would use mosquito screen to keep the eggs and fish separate. You could also use egg crate/light defuser as backing for it. I would have it a few cm off the bottom. You could also use your pond baskets too in the tank.

  • @samteagames9598
    @samteagames9598 2 месяца назад +10

    Cute dog

  • @steve-adams
    @steve-adams 2 месяца назад +5

    Your experience with these guys reminds me a lot of my time with CPDs. Very similar in how they hatch rapidly and proceed to sit around for a week, then scoot around a bit for another.
    I also had heaps of issues with spawn robbing and ended up using an air lift to pull the eggs from a laying site into a breeding box (I 3d printed a neat little funnel-like system with stainless steel mesh on top which allows the eggs to funnel down to the air lift tube). Up until I was able to mostly rule out spawn robbing, I kept getting only 2 or 3 fry at a time despite knowing these fish were dropping dozens of eggs per day. That was frustrating.
    Once spawn robbing was ruled out, I'm not sure why but I was having fairly high death rates. Maybe close to 50%. I'd spot around a dozen babies in the breeding box and wind up with 6-8 babies within 2 weeks of that time. Oddly enough, placing heaps of botanicals and sand in the breeding box (typically a huge no; most people I know keep them virtually sterile) along with a few shrimp, snails, and scuds of all things led to massive success. The babies love it in there. I haven't had notable losses in a long time.
    That breeder box is a bizarre little spot. It looks like the bottom of a stream's pool in the woods. Sticks, seed pods, a bit of moss, sand and malm, etc. I was sure something would predate the eggs and to be honest, I was temporarily using the breeding box to culture the scuds. It was pure coincidence that the conditions happened to lead to way more fry surviving. Maybe it's a food thing? Who knows. I have way too many CPDs now, which is a really fun problem to have.
    All that is to say who the hell knows how any of this works or why. It's so fun to experiment and figure things out.
    I know what you mean about not wanting to part with the babies. People will pay $6-$8 for a CPD here, but the first ones I raised from fries are worth so much more to me. I don't think I'll ever sell them.

    • @derekeaton4021
      @derekeaton4021 2 месяца назад

      Thank you for sharing your experience! I'm trying to breed some zebra danios right now using a similar egg catcher. A couple days after noticing eggs in the breeder box I found a dozen or so fry stuck to the sides. I put a small clump of pearl weed in there hoping it would provide some infusoria. This morning I can't seem to find any fry in there. Hoping they are just hiding in the pearl weed.

  • @FishkeepingFriend
    @FishkeepingFriend 2 месяца назад +2

    Nice experimentation and a good result in the end. Thanks for sharing this.

  • @theanthillfromknow.theanop3960
    @theanthillfromknow.theanop3960 Месяц назад +1

    Hey great video. I am not a breeder of this fish but. A tip for that gravel u use. What i now for so far is you can use glas marbles from 1/2 till 1 cm to. Cover it whit 3 layers of marbles the egg will fall between it an are safe to less messy to work whit

  • @matthew_thefallen
    @matthew_thefallen 2 месяца назад +1

    I love Sam in these videos 😂 such a beautiful doggie 😊

  • @juliemcgugan1244
    @juliemcgugan1244 Месяц назад

    I used to keep fish where I used to live in Singapore and the tap water was very soft and pure. Like less than 5 parts per million. Using dechlorinator on it resulted in something suitable for keeping very sensitive fish. There was also a shop near where I lived that sold RO water. Was more expensive than buying bottled distilled water, but relatively cheap.

  • @ferdianbettafish3659
    @ferdianbettafish3659 2 месяца назад +1

    a trick you can use for egg scattering fish is, using net/basin with holes that are small enough for the eggs but not for the fish. soo basically the net/basin are used for the breeding area and the area at the bottom are for the eggs

  • @robert5770
    @robert5770 2 месяца назад +2

    @15:35!!! Did You enlist!! LOL My hair grows fast and I live in Florida, so I get shaved like that too mate! Love your videos.

  • @proy2241
    @proy2241 2 месяца назад

    Thanks for taking the time to document your breeding of neons. Your our go to fish knowledge guy. Your usually on my tv as I tend to my fish.i like your tours of other peoples tanks too. Thanks again from grande cache Alberta Canada.👍😊

  • @Joshua_Hamil10
    @Joshua_Hamil10 2 месяца назад +4

    Love the tetra breeding series!!

  • @mikecritchlow1114
    @mikecritchlow1114 Месяц назад

    50 years ago I was reading about how to breed egg scatterers like Neons, Danios etc and the advice then was to put a double layer of marbles in the tank to catch and protect the eggs. Also to keep the water level fairly shallow so that the eggs wouldn't get caught and eaten by the parents, or other fish, before they settled into the marbles.

  • @JBAquapetz
    @JBAquapetz 2 месяца назад +1

    Nice switch with the haircut 16:15 16:16

  • @justinread4381
    @justinread4381 2 месяца назад +9

    I used to use marbles as a base material for breeding black neons ( no reason I just never tried normal neons ) I found the gaps helped to stop predation. I always wanted to make a drop tank with a net bottom so the eggs could fall through and the adults couldn't get to them. Unfortunately a divorce ( a very common thing in the fish trade lmao ) stopped me from ever trying it.
    Your videos are getting so much better these days, keep up the great work.

  • @vahagnmelikyan2906
    @vahagnmelikyan2906 Месяц назад

    It's another level of excitement when fry hatch and they wiggle first time.😊

  • @mhunt7843
    @mhunt7843 2 месяца назад

    I am sorry - I must say this - your dog is so cute!!! Seems like a good dog!

  • @robestey5628
    @robestey5628 5 дней назад

    Congrats

  • @tropicaltanktv
    @tropicaltanktv 2 месяца назад

    So cool to see that they're spawning for you. Great video! Also, the new haircut looks great! :)

  • @JeffreyHopkins-m9l
    @JeffreyHopkins-m9l 2 месяца назад +6

    Nick why don't use get a pepper grinder and use that to grind up your food to reduce it to dust. Be a little easier than grinding with your fingers.

  • @palimike83
    @palimike83 2 месяца назад +1

    Wild mid-video hair cut!

  • @JPW_Pressure_Washing
    @JPW_Pressure_Washing 2 месяца назад +1

    Needed this guide! Thank you for what you do!

  • @jeffkane4391
    @jeffkane4391 2 месяца назад

    Looking forward to the next neon breeding video. Thanks for sharing 😊

  • @Leahslittlepatchofparadise
    @Leahslittlepatchofparadise 2 месяца назад +1

    Great video.
    I love neon tetras too, i dont care what anyone says about them, i will always keep them 😊
    Also, your hair looks so good short OMG 😍
    I ordered some of your Turquoise and Boesemani rainbow fish on Thursday,
    I can't wait to get them in my tank,

  • @rhondafitzpatrick1646
    @rhondafitzpatrick1646 2 месяца назад

    you are amazing! good job, persistence paid off!😊

  • @nayeemkhan1497
    @nayeemkhan1497 2 месяца назад +1

    Hi, try putting a mesh or net in bottom of tank and take a breed.. That would get eggs separate easily..
    I had seen in some video on RUclips with same method. I highly recommend trying it in your next project of neon breeding

  • @scottcahala7779
    @scottcahala7779 2 месяца назад +1

    Awesome video.

  • @darrylmoore5847
    @darrylmoore5847 2 месяца назад

    Awesome video as always.

  • @abielmanchego2270
    @abielmanchego2270 2 месяца назад +3

    I think you should breathe green neon. Tetris.🎉

  • @corydora2894
    @corydora2894 2 месяца назад +4

    The hair! The hair!

  • @borishudournik7883
    @borishudournik7883 2 месяца назад

    Thé buzzcut looks realy good on you
    Nice video ❤

  • @GeneCraftExotics
    @GeneCraftExotics 2 месяца назад

    Keep up the good work, doing it for the love of the hobby.🎉

  • @vettedude102
    @vettedude102 2 месяца назад

    I wish I could get some bug buffet here in the US! Enjoy watching your videos as I'm starting to try to breed different fish, and your videos help tremendously!

    • @rara5212
      @rara5212 2 месяца назад

      Canadian bug bites are as good!😊

  • @andycarter4581
    @andycarter4581 2 месяца назад

    Great stuff thanks

  • @NYGOLD
    @NYGOLD 2 месяца назад

    It is SO HARD to breed neons, you are doing a great job. I have a small tank of green neons that I'm trying to breed at the moment with no luck. I will be trying your method or something like it next. Thanks for making these videos.

  • @markfranklin8831
    @markfranklin8831 2 месяца назад

    This is awesome. Thanks for sharing
    I would love to see you setup a petricola catfish breeding video . Thanks

  • @Yinda_groundhog
    @Yinda_groundhog 2 месяца назад

    It's interesting that you can grab fish without scaring the crap out of them. I remember that when I was younger, I made a munch of loud noises in front of my tank of neon tetras. That scared them so much, some got sick and died a few days later.

  • @chevyfish4028
    @chevyfish4028 2 месяца назад +3

    👍Greenwater is a miracle food for fry. Congrats on another successful neon hatch project. I would also keep the breeders in softer, tannin water.

  • @Gobertron
    @Gobertron 2 месяца назад

    Thank you. You make me want to try breeding too😊

  • @rossturner3650
    @rossturner3650 2 месяца назад +3

    You should look into setting up an egg trap, it's a mesh covered funnel that uses an airline much like sponge filter to pull eggs up to a fry tray that you mount on top of the tank.
    There's a few tutorials on yt that explain it properly but it's a life saver for fish that eat their own eggs because the large majority get pulled away from them before they can get them

  • @fishs_shrimps
    @fishs_shrimps 2 месяца назад +2

    Pete Moss is not needed. Bring the TDS below 10 and add some katapa leaves

    • @fishs_shrimps
      @fishs_shrimps 2 месяца назад

      ruclips.net/user/shortskuOCtu9pai8?si=iL7hjSvAbgqBkjps

  • @renesage280
    @renesage280 2 месяца назад +1

    You look good with short and long hair.

  • @basilroland
    @basilroland 2 месяца назад

    You should 3d print a bottom grid for your tank

  • @flowjo4038
    @flowjo4038 2 месяца назад

    I had bought a few aquarium plants from the shop and my fancytails had destroyed them within wk so I just put them in a bowl🙈2 days ago I went to clean the water from tge bowl and I found 6 baby tetras in there 🙈I've got penguin,Rose,neon,xray tetras that I bought this mth for my birthday on the 10th so it's definitely not any of their babies😀Mine are no bigger than my white tip on the end of my little finger nail🤏SOOO TINY🥰

  • @meltedjabulani19
    @meltedjabulani19 2 месяца назад

    Sam was falling sleep 😆

  • @miniscenesgb
    @miniscenesgb 2 месяца назад

    Very interesting. I guess Cardinals would be similar in terms of needs for breeding?

    • @miniscenesgb
      @miniscenesgb 2 месяца назад +1

      By the way the appearance and disappearance of the mustache and hair was so funny and also added a sense of time passing :)

  • @Just_Outdoors11
    @Just_Outdoors11 2 месяца назад

    I’m a massive fan ur the best and I’m breeding guppies and Cory’s and have a 4 foot keep posting I love them mate and I’m from Victoria and ur Brisbane

  • @pincopallinojoe9296
    @pincopallinojoe9296 2 месяца назад +2

    Wouldn't putting a netting above the bottom work better? They spawn and the eggs fall through.

  • @Naguzoro1
    @Naguzoro1 2 месяца назад +1

    I imagine marbles will have enough room for eggs to fall between

  • @cameronfloyd2160
    @cameronfloyd2160 2 месяца назад

    Sam must be a barky doggo 😅

  • @anthovidal
    @anthovidal 2 месяца назад

    Lowell’s fish lab used egg crate at the bottom of the tanks with egg scattering fish so there can’t be any spawn robbing.

  • @ferko6
    @ferko6 2 месяца назад

    When you are conditioning the adults in tap water do you slowly transition to ro water in the breeding tank or are you just dropping them in without acclimating them to the soft water? What is the hardness of your tap water?
    Thank you for the video!

  • @waynekerrgoodstyle
    @waynekerrgoodstyle 2 месяца назад

    Cool 👍

  • @leosztlak
    @leosztlak Месяц назад

    where do you get all the black profiles in the edges of the tanks?

  • @zsworld6609
    @zsworld6609 2 месяца назад +3

    have you ever tried breeding cardinals?

    • @MattStrike
      @MattStrike 2 месяца назад

      I would love to see this

  • @jtkeepingfish
    @jtkeepingfish 2 месяца назад

    Really cool experiment! Would be cool to try it myself to, but I don't know if it would be worth while since we can buy neon for next to nothing here!

  • @Zazuk68
    @Zazuk68 2 месяца назад

    You should try keeping some live food for the parents in the tank while they are spawning so they have something else to eat besides the eggs.

  • @donovanreyna8153
    @donovanreyna8153 2 месяца назад +2

    When are we getting bug buffet in the U.S.? I really want to try it, but shipping almost doubles the price 😢

  • @jakouys1353
    @jakouys1353 2 месяца назад +7

    My brother in law used to to breed neons years ago. He used the bin method. Just throw them in a dark bin with the lid on and leave a small hole for feeding. The pitch black of the bin caused the adults to not be able to find the eggs or fry. He just left the m for a few weeks and when he opened the bin he had a ton of extra neons.

    • @rara5212
      @rara5212 2 месяца назад +4

      Thanks! But how could the parents find the added food but not the fry to devour?

    • @jakouys1353
      @jakouys1353 2 месяца назад +2

      @@rara5212 No idea TBH. There is a hole in the top of the bin for the food and I assume a little bit of ambient light hits that hole enough for the fish to see the food falling in but because the bin is deep the light doesnt penetrate far enough into the bin to hit the fry. Just a guess tho, one drawback of the bin method is you have no idea whats happening inside. I just know it worked🤷‍♂

    • @rara5212
      @rara5212 2 месяца назад

      @@jakouys1353 that sounds plausible. Thanks for explanation!

    • @ciber5650
      @ciber5650 2 месяца назад

      Any idea of the temperature they were??? was it rain water or R/O water??? your idea sounds pretty interesting.... i might try it, what food were he using?

    • @jakouys1353
      @jakouys1353 2 месяца назад +2

      @@ciber5650 He lives in a small farm town here in south africa and has borehole water. The water is VERY high in calsium but chemical free. Temps are about 24 to 30 C. He didnt use any heaters cuz thats just the ambient temps here. He also just used cheap goldfish flakes for EVERYTHING. TBH im baffled that he even kept things alive half the time but his fish bred like crazy. He mostly bred chichlids tho.

  • @Exostable
    @Exostable 2 месяца назад +1

    Would glolight tetras work similarly, with the peat and ro water?

  • @ripemall2111
    @ripemall2111 2 месяца назад

    i would love to see you breeding chichlids soon

  • @visvajitshanmugasundaram
    @visvajitshanmugasundaram 2 месяца назад +1

    Please make one tutorial for cardinal tetras i have tried the neon tetra method it didn't work out for me. Would be helpfull if you make a tutorial because your tutorial has been very clear compared to others.

  • @benf1111
    @benf1111 8 дней назад

    I wanna see you try it with cardinal tetras.

  • @philipyazbak5496
    @philipyazbak5496 2 месяца назад

    Hey Nick! Greay video! Could make a similar rummynose tetra video?

  • @StevenBock-bh8zi
    @StevenBock-bh8zi 2 месяца назад +1

    Did you ever end up getting your CPDs to breed? Great video

  • @zombei_kid
    @zombei_kid 2 месяца назад

    I wonder if you could put a grate? with openings small enough the adults can't get into?

  • @tomblomfield6973
    @tomblomfield6973 2 месяца назад

    Is this method the same for all tetra? Would love to see how you go with glowlights! Tried to breed them myself a few times but no luck

  • @vahagnmelikyan2906
    @vahagnmelikyan2906 Месяц назад

    Use a coconut moss from homedepot

  • @clint9027
    @clint9027 2 месяца назад +1

    Such a shame we can’t send you some quality stock from out of oz, so you start on the right foot.

  • @Nigelaquaticsfish
    @Nigelaquaticsfish 2 месяца назад

    I wish I had this video quality if I had fish at a young age I would be popin soon sooooon

  • @bobhadland2554
    @bobhadland2554 2 месяца назад

    I used to work with a guy who was the first person to breed neon tetras in captivity.

  • @nversluys
    @nversluys Месяц назад

    Have you checked the ph after adding peat? It’s very acidic.

  • @SJLamb-te3dt
    @SJLamb-te3dt 2 месяца назад

    Gotta breed some super hardy neons😂😂😂

  • @rohanpani622
    @rohanpani622 2 месяца назад

    Yeeessssssssss!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @Sshooter444
    @Sshooter444 2 месяца назад

    When I bred CPD's a carpet of dwarf hairgrass over ADA soil was the ticket. The eggs are too hard for the parents to locate and the fry develop in the substrate easily.

  • @JoshUC
    @JoshUC 2 месяца назад

    Hi Nick, I love your content, greetings from Costa Rica, I have a question, is it the same process with Cardinal tetras? Thank you mate!

  • @IanNoone-m5v
    @IanNoone-m5v 2 месяца назад

    Do u ship your new fish foods to Ireland ??

  • @guiseppicosta4676
    @guiseppicosta4676 2 месяца назад

    Do you remineralise any of your tanks?

  • @SJLamb-te3dt
    @SJLamb-te3dt 2 месяца назад

    Could a sand substrate the same color as the eggs help hide them from the adults? Or some kind of adult fish excluder? Keep them in the top half of the tank and have their eggs fall through to the bottom. Might have to build something.

  • @ciber5650
    @ciber5650 2 месяца назад

    Do you acclimate them when taking them from the conditioning tank at tap water to the RO / Peat water?
    Love your vids. Im trying to get this done for a while now, but im using rain water, no luck so far tho.

    • @mich421
      @mich421 2 месяца назад

      It depends on the temperature mine started chasing each other after the change in outside temperature it became colder I split the pair and they reproduced but they were all infertile

  • @madmatts9010
    @madmatts9010 Месяц назад

    Would love to know how the commercial fisheries breed the thousands of neons and cardinals per day needed to supply the worlds shops

  • @CementJuice
    @CementJuice 2 месяца назад

    Any reason you wouldn’t use a divider in the tank so when the adults spawn the eggs fall through the divider holes safely ?

  • @kfdugdsjksedokqdlfdnh2620
    @kfdugdsjksedokqdlfdnh2620 2 месяца назад

    Hey man what lights do you use?

  • @andybull6084
    @andybull6084 2 месяца назад

    Hi mate. Do you think I could do the same for Congo Tetras?

  • @Malysandacz
    @Malysandacz 2 месяца назад +1

    As a commercial breeder I like those videos. No way they can teach anyone how to breed neons, No need for a competition:)

  • @johnauberry1500
    @johnauberry1500 2 месяца назад

    What if there was a grate about a 1in off the bottom? The eggs would fall through but not allow the parents access

  • @f.e.creation7950
    @f.e.creation7950 24 дня назад

    @KeepingFishSimple someone sayed to me neon tetras will they become sterile as soon as they have been in water over 7 ph?

  • @xc_OuMa
    @xc_OuMa 2 месяца назад

    No one really breeds neons here locally everything is imported and I've always wanted to try and breed these guys.

  • @jeffmcdaniel8058
    @jeffmcdaniel8058 2 месяца назад +1

    Mustache, no mustache! Hair, no hair!