Breeding Glowlights

[BigDaddy]

Any one have any experience breeding these guys?

Any tips or tricks would be greatly appreciated.

[Ron]

I've bred them in trios of two females and one male in a well established ten gallon tank with lots of ambulia and myriophyllum growing in it. Like most SA tetras, they should do better in soft, peat filtered water, but I had success in gH 9 water. Fed the adults heavily with bb shrimp and diced white worms for about a week, added male to breeding tank with females, rasied temperature to above 80 degrees and did a 50% water change. They spawned the following day, and I removed the adults late that evening.

The fry survived on finely powdered fry food the natural infusoria in the tank until they were able to eat freshly hatched brine shrimp at about six days.

It would be nice to have someone else around breeding some characins; it's lonely for those of us who breed anything other than cichlids around here! Good luck and let us know how you make out.

Ron

[Marc]

I'd love to breed my serpae tetras but I'll need to figure out how to sex them first.  The rest of your instructions seem simple enough.

[dpatte]

Black (skirt) tetras and serpaes are definately closely related. In thee black tera, the female is alot larger than the male and fuller. Maybe its the same for serpaes?

Also from Baench: the male swim bladder points sharly downward, while the female's is rounded and concealed.

Maybe we should see who can breed some tetras first