I got 5 white cloud mountain minnows a few days ago. they are all doing great. they are in a 10gal tank with lots of plants. I wanted to know how big they needed to be to lay eggs. mine are all between 3/4 of an inch to 1 inch long. Im not sure if i have boys or girls (the lady at the store said they were laying eggs in the aquerium, and there was 10, so im hopeing i got a few or each gender)
NE ways my questions are:
1) what can i feed them besides flakes (i wanna spice up their diet, i read online that brine shrimp was good for them?)
2)how many times do they lay eggs in a month?
3)What do i do with the eggs when the fish lay them? (do i leave them, take them out?)
4) does it matter that there are 4 normal sized ones and a smaller one or will they pick on the small guy?
Thats all my questions
Thnxs for the answer
You can vary their diet with baby brine shrimp, daphnia (water fleas), and crushed spirulina flakes to start. They will eat blood worms and adult brine shrimp, if you mush it up in your fingers first to make the pieces smaller. Depending on your water parameters will provoke them to spawn/breed (lots of 20% water changes, like every two days, and slowly allow the temp to go down to about 67F). Once you notice they have laid their eggs, you should remove the adults to another tank. The eggs will hatch in about 3 days, the fry will live off micro-organisms, so make sure that your tank is well established, and don’t be afraid to add a little food to get the microorganisms multiplying. You can start feeding them bbs and finely crushed flake food at about day 5. Watch your fish for signs of being picked on, but since clouds are pretty peaceful and like to school, you shouldn’t have any issues.
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