Tuesday, July 5, 2011

How To Breed Tetra Fish

 TETRA is quite beautiful ornamental fresh water aquarium fish. Various kinds of ornamental fish tetra is known, just to name some of them, we know Tetra Green, Blue Tetra, Silver Tetra, Neon Tetra and many others. In my country, lots of people successfully breed aquarium fish and In this blog post I present the technique how to breed Neon Tetra (Hyphessobryconnesi) which the information was taken from discussion with ornamental fish farmers.

Breeding Tetra Fish

Breed this fish species is still quite difficult if you don't know and requires perseverance and a long experience, but generally, in order to have a successful breeding condition you must need several condition :
  • Water should be sterile and acidic (pH less than 6.4)
  • Breeding must be done in dark place.
  • Temperature around 20 ° C

The most important, is to select fish to breed, the problem comes if you do not know how to differentiate/ distinguish between male and female neon tetras. Here is how to doffer them:

* Males: body lines straight on the type of neon tetra, a little long.
* Females: Short Round and abdominal bloating, body line on the neon tetra is rather crooked.

Now this is how to breed them:

1. Separate female and male neon tetra.
2. Store rainwater and keep it for + 2 weeks.
3. Wash aquarium for spawning.
4. Fill aquarium with rainwater
5. Add same kayu asam water soaked.
6. 2 ~ 3 days left in place.
7. Enter the crop or foliage to lay eggs the neon tetra.
8. Enter tetra parent who has been separated first.
9. Cover the hole and give the place a little light in order to be able to see the movements of the fish.
10. If you see a male and a female one another romp, then + 3 days later the eggs are seen attached to the leaves or roots that have been provided.
11. Move the mother and covered with black cloth until no light inside.
12. During the 3 days + neon tetra eggs are hatched.
13. Children of these fish can be fed infusoria the bacterial decay on cabbage leaf / cabbage canker drop by drop. You can buy it at stores selling ornamental fish and ornamental fish place.
14. + After 2-3 weeks of the closing was allowed to reopen.
15. Then the children will look tetra fish.

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