xZaiox
Member
Hi guys,
My tap water is hard - roughly dKH of 10 and dGH of 20. I have about 19 cardinal tetras in my main tank, and due to my water hardness, I had just pretty much ruled out ever breeding them. I don't have an RO/DI system either. However, I then read a post about breeding them in rainwater... I don't know why I had never considered rainwater, how simple!
From my understanding, these fish can be bred by just feeding them well and then putting a mature male and female into a separate tank with something like java moss to scatter the eggs in, and leaving the lights off. This all sounds fine, but how do I go about transitioning the fish from my main tank with hard water to the spare one with rainwater? I would have thought a jump in parameters such as this would be much rougher on the fish than a standard acclimation from shop to tank? Or is it pretty much the same thing?
Does anyone have any advice regarding this? Would also love to hear from anybody who has bred these fish.
My tap water is hard - roughly dKH of 10 and dGH of 20. I have about 19 cardinal tetras in my main tank, and due to my water hardness, I had just pretty much ruled out ever breeding them. I don't have an RO/DI system either. However, I then read a post about breeding them in rainwater... I don't know why I had never considered rainwater, how simple!
From my understanding, these fish can be bred by just feeding them well and then putting a mature male and female into a separate tank with something like java moss to scatter the eggs in, and leaving the lights off. This all sounds fine, but how do I go about transitioning the fish from my main tank with hard water to the spare one with rainwater? I would have thought a jump in parameters such as this would be much rougher on the fish than a standard acclimation from shop to tank? Or is it pretty much the same thing?
Does anyone have any advice regarding this? Would also love to hear from anybody who has bred these fish.