How To Encourage Successful Ember Tetra Breeding In Community Tank?

Hello All,

I have a fairly heavily10-gallon planted nano community tank containing:

• 9 ember tetras
• 10 (or so) pygmy cories
• 3 male guppies
• the ubiquitous pond snails
• a number of assassin snails (3 adults + some new juveniles roaming around)

I've recently noticed that my small school of ember tetras have started really showing their vibrant colors and fin definition...and the females have puffed. Haha! They're like happy little spheres.

I would love to encourage successful spawning, but don't have a lot of extra tanks...or space. I *do* have a small isolation box that says it's to isolate fish who are ill or injured...or to use for breeding. (It has a 'drop down area' that protects eggs and fry while they are small.)

I don't want to cause my adult fish any undue stress by isolating a breeding pair from their school, but it would be exciting to see their little family grow.

Do you think there's any shot of the eggs being scattered into the substrate beneath (or on) the plants and having the snails miss a few...or would that be wishful thinking?

I have extra filtration on the tank, they fish get a healthy diet containing lots of freeze-dried worms and brine shrimp, and the water parameters are well within the 'healthy' zone. I also just added some fresh dried catalpa leaves into the tank.

Thank you for your thoughts.

 

Look at some of the articles on breeding neon tetras... I doubt it would be much different!

 

I think they would breed as it is as mine have in just normal tank conditions. My eggs did not last long with my honey gourami though. Are you feeding frozen food?

 

I think they would breed as it is as mine have in just normal tank conditions. My eggs did not last long with my honey gourami though. Are you feeding frozen food?

HI JackA99,

They get freeze dried brine shrimp and blood worms in addition to crushed tropical flake.

 

Just found this short, comprehensive article on this very topic...should anyone else be interested:

Hyphessobrycon amandae – Ember Tetra

 

Just found this short, comprehensive article on this very topic...should anyone else be interested:

Thanks, that was helpful.