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    Spawning in planted tanks?

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    I went to Teo's recently and noticed that the pair of angels had spawn on a Echinodorus. One of the parents was fanning the eggs. COOL! I supposed they should have hatched by now.

    Over the years, many fishes have spawned without any effort from me (well, at least those that spawned, had fries survive long enough for me to notice). Among them were: blue-eye killie, whitecloud minnow, liverbearers and more recently Corydora sterbai. hmm, nothing fancy, but hey, I didn't expect them to spawn either. This morning, I noticed a shoal of male congo tetra flaring their fins, swimming in circles, chasing the females around. I assume this is spawning behaviour (but dun think any eggs will make it with the cories around). Nevertheless, it was very cool to watch!
    Chan of NA also had his Bosemanni rainbows spawn in one of his showtanks rite? Haven't been there for sometime liao, anyone knows what happened to the rainbow fries?

    Just curious to know if anyone else had fish/shrimp breeding in their plant tanks??

    ck

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    Mine did...

    A pair of angels that is. But the fries never made it... cos too many hungry cardinal tetra in the tank.... I think I have malayan shrimps spawning also.

    No to mention guppies and a pair of bettas...Anyhow, I am a firm believer that if ur fishes are not stressed then they will spawn...but still no luck with tetras leh...
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    My list:
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    mostly happen to my apistogramma

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    My Congo tets always does that, a pair will swim fast fast one end to another, but never see any egg laying, maybe have but I never noticed and the cichlids below eat their eggs maybe?

    I bought 5 Barbus jae from That Pet & Fish, got two always swim together and rub body together, anyway thats the only two left after sometime, the rest disappeared, donno go where.
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    For me: Rams, Swordtails and all the snails.
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    my two pairs of angels are spawning every other two or three weeks. Now into my 5th batch of fries, have not successfully raise any though but the current batch is looking good. It's already into the third week.

    Think the black pair is going to spawn again this week...

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    Wow. Seems that Angels are quite prolific breeders. If only Altums where as prolific. []

    I was wondering, would all these fish have bred without our intervention if they were in bare tanks? Maybe.
    Or is it that the plant tank maintains the water conditions, provide shelter, or simply just looks more natural, therefore less stressful for the fish, and less casualties?

    ck

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    Hey CK, the cherry barbs I got from you some time back spawned recently as well. Don't know when exactly cos I only realised they had spawned after I saw 2 tiny fries swimming around (yes, just 2 left). And incidentally, spawning took place after I imposed a 3-day blackout period (for algae eradication and not for spawing of course) . Thus, I think lights play a very major role in my tank.

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    fishes that had spawned in my tank are:
    blue rams, rummy noses and corys.
    no more mating activity since i added the juv discus.

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    I've had Rams, Zebra Danios, Guppys, Swordtails, platys, Mollies spawn before... oh and snails too
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