Breeding Neon Tetras - Over 100 Fry!
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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.
yea marbles can work great
You can use a mosquito net for windows I tried it it works
That's how we do it in Brazil
I knew an old guy in the 80s who used the marble method in an old bathtub to breed thousands of neons
Did you use methylene blue?
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.
My prayers are with you as you face your challenge! Wish I could do more.
This fish is definitely in the top 5 list of fish I want to breed one day.
Thanks for sharing your experiences.
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.
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.
I love these breeding videos. Thank you!
Congratulations man, your work is fantastic, I'm your fan, your work with the neon tetras is fantastic. 🤩🤩🤩
I came for the fish but the dog stole my heart 🥰 Gorgeous pup!
Really great to see the whole process of trial and error. Definitely helps me to understand the work of small stores maintaining stock.
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 ❤
Nice to see this review. Thanks for taking the time. I am interested myself :)
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.
It's another level of excitement when fry hatch and they wiggle first time.😊
Nice experimentation and a good result in the end. Thanks for sharing this.
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.
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.
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
Poor Sam... He was enjoying his best life 🤣🤣🤣
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.👍😊
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.
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.
Looking forward to the next neon breeding video. Thanks for sharing 😊
I love Sam in these videos 😂 such a beautiful doggie 😊
So cool to see that they're spawning for you. Great video! Also, the new haircut looks great! :)
I am sorry - I must say this - your dog is so cute!!! Seems like a good dog!
Cute dog
Love the tetra breeding series!!
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,
❤
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
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.
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.
Needed this guide! Thank you for what you do!
@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.
Keep up the good work, doing it for the love of the hobby.🎉
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.
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!
Canadian bug bites are as good!😊
Wild mid-video hair cut!
you are amazing! good job, persistence paid off!😊
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
Thé buzzcut looks realy good on you
Nice video ❤
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.
👍Greenwater is a miracle food for fry. Congrats on another successful neon hatch project. I would also keep the breeders in softer, tannin water.
Nice switch with the haircut 16:15 16:16
I think you should breathe green neon. Tetris.🎉
Awesome video as always.
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
This is awesome. Thanks for sharing
I would love to see you setup a petricola catfish breeding video . Thanks
Thank you. You make me want to try breeding too😊
Awesome video.
Pete Moss is not needed. Bring the TDS below 10 and add some katapa leaves
ruclips.net/user/shortskuOCtu9pai8?si=iL7hjSvAbgqBkjps
The hair! The hair!
Great stuff thanks
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.
You look good with short and long hair.
I imagine marbles will have enough room for eggs to fall between
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!
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🥰
I wish I had this video quality if I had fish at a young age I would be popin soon sooooon
Sam must be a barky doggo 😅
Hey Nick! Greay video! Could make a similar rummynose tetra video?
Very interesting. I guess Cardinals would be similar in terms of needs for breeding?
By the way the appearance and disappearance of the mustache and hair was so funny and also added a sense of time passing :)
I used to work with a guy who was the first person to breed neon tetras in captivity.
Sam was falling sleep 😆
As a commercial breeder I like those videos. No way they can teach anyone how to breed neons, No need for a competition:)
You should 3d print a bottom grid for your tank
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
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.
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!
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.
i would love to see you breeding chichlids soon
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.
where do you get all the black profiles in the edges of the tanks?
When are we getting bug buffet in the U.S.? I really want to try it, but shipping almost doubles the price 😢
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!
Wouldn't putting a netting above the bottom work better? They spawn and the eggs fall through.
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
Such a shame we can’t send you some quality stock from out of oz, so you start on the right foot.
Cool 👍
Did you ever end up getting your CPDs to breed? Great video
have you ever tried breeding cardinals?
I would love to see this
Gotta breed some super hardy neons😂😂😂
Would glolight tetras work similarly, with the peat and ro water?
Yeeessssssssss!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Have you checked the ph after adding peat? It’s very acidic.
Use a coconut moss from homedepot
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.
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
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.
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.
Thanks! But how could the parents find the added food but not the fry to devour?
@@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🤷♂
@@jakouys1353 that sounds plausible. Thanks for explanation!
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?
@@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.
I wonder if you could put a grate? with openings small enough the adults can't get into?
Would love to know how the commercial fisheries breed the thousands of neons and cardinals per day needed to supply the worlds shops
No one really breeds neons here locally everything is imported and I've always wanted to try and breed these guys.
Do u ship your new fish foods to Ireland ??
Do you remineralise any of your tanks?
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.
Mustache, no mustache! Hair, no hair!
True 😅
do more projects and post more content i want to watch it
Hi mate. Do you think I could do the same for Congo Tetras?
@KeepingFishSimple someone sayed to me neon tetras will they become sterile as soon as they have been in water over 7 ph?
Hello, could you do a video about how to breed amber tetras? I cnow there are tons of videos on you toube but I am curios wat is your aproach to succesfully breed amber tetras. Thank you and have a good day! 😊
Hey man what lights do you use?
Any reason you wouldn’t use a divider in the tank so when the adults spawn the eggs fall through the divider holes safely ?
Really interesting mate i hope you keep breeding them so there are actually quality neons available on the market. The imports are just a waste they die just looking at them, also i hope you try other tetra's maybe cardinals? I used to have a group of silvertips that bred but obviously didnt survive in a community tank.