What can you tell me about Dwarf Gourami breeding?

Question

To go along with my main question, can I use a tank divider for breeding? Where and what kind of plants can I use other than those four common plants? Where can I get brine shrimp hatchery and stuff about it? What is infusria and where do I get it?

Answer 1

Let's tackle these a little out of order.

You can get a brine shrimp hatchery at most any pet store, or you can simply hatch them in any convenient jar or container. I like using a sun tea jar with the spout on the side near the bottom. Try doing a google on DIY brine shrimp and your get tones of money saving ideas for hatcheries, no doubt one will work for you.

Infusoria is mush easier. Use a fair sized jar mostly full of aquarium water. Add to that a small piece of crushed lettuce. Place the jar in a place that it will get plenty of light, but not too much direct sun light. Near a window is perfect. The water will get greenish and then turn milky and hazy. That's infusoria. You feed it just by pouring some of the culture into the tank. Once the first one gets milky, start another so it will be ready when you use up the first.

I'm not sure which 4 common plants you mean, but I like water sprite or riccia in a dwarf gourami breeding tank.

To breed these guys is really easy over all. It works almost like bettas. Once they are in breeding condition, place them in a 10 gallon tank together with the riccia and a sponge filter. Bare bottomed tank is best, so the eggs and later the fry don't get caught in the gravel. It's also easier to keep it clean. Keep the water level a bit low, maybe 6-8" deep and the sponge filter kinda low so it doesn't splash the surface too much. They will breed almost exactly like bettas, the male builds a bubble nest and the female comes to him under it several times and they have batch after batch of eggs. Again like bettas, remove the female from the tank when they are finished. You can tell because he will keep he chased away from the nest.

The eggs will hatch in a few days and the fry will be free swimming a few days after that. Once they are, you can remove the male. Feed the fry infusoria and / of microworms for the first 10days to 2 weeks, then slowly start introducing baby brine shrimp as you feed less and less of the other foods. Within a few days they will all be eating brine shrimp. As they get larger you can feed larger and larger shrimp and eventually introduce flake food the same way you changed them to brine shrimp.

Keep the tank covered as much as possible in the first few weeks while they develop. The warm moist air over the tank will help. Also, the cleaner you keep the tank and the more often you feed, the faster they will grow.

Best of luck with them and if you have any more questions feel free to email me.

MM

Answer 2

Here is a great site explaining everything you need to know about breeding dwarf gouramis
http://www.gourami-breeding.co.uk/index.htm

some info about infusoria
http://davidcecere.pipidae.org/infusoria.htm
http://www.skepticalaquarist.com/docs/feeding/infusoria.shtml
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/fry_food.php

Great info about brine shrimp hatchery, and how to get it on the 3rd link
http://saltaquarium.about.com/library/blank/bl_DIY_Brine_Shrimp_Hatchery.htm
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/diy_brineshrimp_hatchery.php
http://www.marineandreef.com/shoppro/food_brine_shrimp.htm

hope that answeres all your questions
Good luck

Answer 3

in case you will get a marvelous pair, they are effortless to guard and breed. you will choose a heater to make the water to approximately 80 stages, a gaggle of aquarium vegetation, some infant food for the fry, and occasional water modern-day on your aquarium. they won't breed with different fish observing the type and length of the different fish, yet keeping them separate is the prevalent technique. purely set up the tank and wait and notice. The male makes a nest and you may desire to have fry quickly afterwards. Cheers