What have you successfully bred?

I have bred contempt for all you lucky buggers, success after success!!

Just kidding, the most significant success for me was 20 Cardinals, a spontaneous activity I had a Tank of Java Moss that was about knee height in the Bedroom.

There had been no traffic no inhabitants and no water changes for months, the Water had been taken from a water Butt that had Bogwood taken from an older Tank and left in the Butt to kill of a heavy growth of Algae.

One Evening, I decided to put in a Heater and a tiny corner filter in order to transfer 3 Cardinals I'd had for about 6 months, they were tiny and the survivors of a Heater malfunction so weren't very old but mature I'd guess.

I was intending to bring them into a lfs to trade or whatever.

The following morning, the Dog, no longer with us, needed out so I obliged, it gave me a chance to see if the Fish had survived the change of accommodation, there appeared to be 2 Females and one Male darting in and out of the Moss.

The Fish were going to be taken that day for trade so eating of eggs wasn't a concern as I didn't check for any as I'd assumed the Fish, being Piranha cousins , had probably eaten most of them.

The Tank was left in the same place for a few days and when I decided to take the Heater out ,I spotted things like small shards/splinters on the front of the Glass, maybe a hundred or so, this was just on the Aquarium, who knows how many were in the Moss etc, I as is the norm, panicked remembering scary tales Fungus etc, trusty Methylene Blue to ward it off. Who knows what this did, everything turned blue, Silicone, wood, you name it.

The success was 20 Cardinals that lived till a good age, I couldn't bring myself to sell them because after Guppies it was my second breeding success.

I have tried quite a few times to replicate this to no avail

Kev.

Nice one Kev,this is indeed a feather in the cap...cardinals wouldnt be easy to breed at all. In fact majority of the cardinals in the lfs are indeed caught from their native habitat,if memory serves me right.

Gavin

The only real success I've had are Bronze Corydoras. From just 1 pair I've bred and raised possibly 100 fry over the last year and a half. They are a truly magnificent pair and would not swap/sell them for anything. I do not do anything special to promote breeding, only leave them be and just let things happen while doing the basics well.

I must add also that I have got some very good advice from this Forum to help me along the way especially after the first couple of times they bred.

Dave

loads and loads of guppies, and more recently cichlids, including Estherae (red zebras), Labidochromis caeruleus (yellow labs) and as of today 2 little Demasoni fry!

Just had success with Galaxies I got from Darren, these things are TINY I mean freaking TINY !! They are in a 60 liter with a couple of largish pieces of Bogwood and Moss everywhere.


Kev.

Congrats! Took you a while:P

I was willing and able, it was the Fish that took their time!!

Kev.

ancitrus plecos by mistake, meaning did not do any preparation...

wow great to see how many people have bred fish successfully.

Breeding gardeneri kilifish at moment. I posted pics of these guys in photo section while back.

Fist lot appeared 6 months ago without any intervention by me and got 10 babies that made it to adult hood so decided this summer to try bred them using wool spawn mops. first egg hatched this morning. 10 more should hatch before end of weekend and also collected another 20 eggs as i write. Prob sell most on this forum later as i am setting up a 2nd tank and the funds could come in handy.

Jaguar cichlids,blue acara,texas cichlid,malawi cichlids red zebra,ice blue zebra,yellow lab,demansonai,moori dolphin,aurutus,guppies,zebra diano fish,bristle nose plec,apisto but fry died one day for no reason,corys a few types.Next project is jack dempseys and pirahna

That's a good range of fish Ceech.

If you manange to get the piranha breeding then defo get some pics up.

ian

i have bred yellow labs,johannis and am trying to bred haplochromis electras and red empress

So far bred L260's, L134's, Cichlasoma Salvini, Cyprichromis Leptosoma (Kerenge Island), Neolamprologus Olivaceous. Working on others....

Patrick

Katherine wrote:

Guppies! in amaizing quantities!! I was happy to give most of them away! Is there anybody interested in fat guppie girls??

An update on it:

pseudomugil gertrudae, amandaes, and Cambarellus patzcuarensis Orange.

Nothing too exciting, angels, kribs, jewel cichlids, convicts, mozambique mouthbrooders, Tilapia mariae, Melanochromis auratus & johanni, Nimbochromis livingstonii, Pseudotropheus esteherae, Neolamprologus brichardi.

Guess you could say I like cichlids

Arcadian wrote:

Nothing too exciting, angels, kribs, jewel cichlids, convicts, mozambique mouthbrooders, Tilapia mariae, Melanochromis auratus & johanni, Nimbochromis livingstonii, Pseudotropheus esteherae, Neolamprologus brichardi.

Guess you could say I like cichlids

There's plenty of exciting stuff in that list.
Auratus and johanni are some of my favourite Malawis, auratus are stunning fish.

ian