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Any personal experienses or any links with Breeding Rummynose & Black Neon Tetra's?.

Thanks alot in advance.



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Thanks alot Keith. i will read it tomorrow & hopefully find some important information & new ideas.
Thanks once again.



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I managed to spawn black neons by moving 2males and 1 female to a 10g planted tank and then acclimating them from my 8.0ph water to 6.8 bottled water. I spent a month doing that while feeding them mostly frozen foods and then added a tiny amount of peat to the filter. They spawned a few days after the water started to turn brown. I didn't manage to raise any fry though so it wasn't completely successful. A couple weeks later an illness wiped out all my black neons.

I am also thinking of trying Black Neons aswell. The female is quite big & i will give them a try.


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Thats really nice Jason,hopefully you will suceed and i hope you will manage to breed the Black neons too..
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Haven't actually bred Rummies myself Jason, but here's some hints and tips that should make life easier once you know them - though it has to be said, not by much ...

Rummies like it warm. 30°C is a typical breeding temperature. Some breeders even go as high as 32°C.

The breeding aquarium should be meticulously clean before you start. Rummy eggs are particularly e to bacterial attack for some reason. Using a product such as Tetra's Blackwater Tonic to add humic acids to the aquarium, or better still, filtering over peat, tends to be beneficial.

Parents will need a good deal of prior conditioning. Feed LOTS of live foods. To prepare them for spawning, ideally you should quite literally carpet bomb them with live Daphnia and Bloodworm. Intersperse with feedings of the highest quality flakes (1 feeding of flakes to every 2 of live food) in the run-up to spawning.

Prepare an egg trap. It will be needed. Rummies aren't normally considered as notorious as Lemon Tetras in this regard, but they will snack upon a few of their own eggs.

Success may be improved if you use 2 males to 1 female.

Breeding aquarium should be in a quiet location, free from sudden shadows passing the aquarium, as Rummies tend to be a tad shy when breeding. Avoid sudden movements in the vicinity of the breeding aquarium. Subdued lighting and/or floating plants also benficial.

Once parents have spawned, your troubles are just beginning. Rummy fry are notoriously slow growers, among the slowest of all aquarium fishes, not just Characins. It isn't unusual for them to need infusoria and finely powdered fry food for - wait for it - twelve weeks. Losses first time round will probably be horrendous. You'll need multiple infusoria cultures on the go, in a continuous cycle, to keep the fry fed. They're also fairly sensitive to water chemistry changes until they're a decent size, so water changes will be another 'intensive care' type task. However, once you've nursed them through to the point where they can take newly hatched Brine Shrimp, growth should speed up.

Be advised that this is a species that even veteran aquarists approach with caution when attempting breeding. Persuading the parents to spawn is challenging, but well within the remit of someone who has, for example, spawned Emperors or Head And Tail Lights in the past. Raising the fry is the BIG headache. Succeed and you can call yourself a serious aquarist.




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Thanks alot Calilasseia & i'll keep in mind all your usefull comments. I will wait a bit more to breed Rummynose, but eventually will try.


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Persuading the parents to spawn is challenging, but well within the remit of someone who has, for example, spawned Emperors or Head And Tail Lights in the past.

Emperors are considered hard to breed? I had this female for months in my community tank before I finally found a male. I stuck them in a 5g heavily planted tank planning to get around to breeding them. A few weeks later I find 3 baby emperors. They must not have minded my hardwater at all. That had to be one of the easiest egg layer spawnings I've attempted.

In which case Sham, you must have done something right, even if you didn't know what it was

Emperors can on occasions be finicky when you try to persuade them to spawn, but there's a fair bit of variability from fish to fish. You may be lucky and have wanton Emperors However, Emperor fry are a LOT easier to raise than Rummies.

If you can persuade Emperors to spawn repeatedly, then chances are you'll enjoy some success with Rummies. But raising Rummy fry is a whole different ball game. I'd definitely classify them as among the hardest Characin fry to raise in numbers. Not impossible, but the work required is considerable.

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