White Cloud Questions?

Question

I just got 4 more Golden White Cloud Minnows yesterday.. Finally the petstore restocked them! So now I've got 6. It's amazing how they swim all as one...

But I'm wondering how can you sex them? Breeding specifics?

Also, the petstore I go to is having a 10 year anniversary sale starting on the 18th... ALL food is 50% off. There are a million brands of fish food, which is a brand that is actually reliable and is good to feed them?

Keep the nonsense to yourself, but thanks to all who answer!

What if I have 3 cory's? Would they eventually scavenge and eat the eggs before they could hatch?

Answer 1

Generally the males will have a little more intense of color (and more white on the fins) as well as being more slender than the females. If you have 6, chances are good you have at least one of each gender. These are egg scatterers, and will lay eggs on the bottom, but you'll need to remove the adults or set up a separate spawning tank if you don't want the eggs or fry to be eaten. You can use a spawning mop as a place for the fish to lay the eggs so they can be moved to a different tank easily: http://www.petfish.net/kb/entry/309/ , http://p076.ezboard.com/Spawning-Mop/fflippersnfinsfrm24.showMessage?topicID=76.topic

Here are some links to spawning methods: http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/breeding/shaw_whitecloud.html
http://www.fishpondinfo.com/wcmm.htm

Answer 2

White clouds are attractive and yet easy to keep and breed.Females tend to have a more fuller belly area and males are more slender If you have enough floating plant cover like hornwort or water sprite you should be able to get fry from these fish They are not big egg or fry eaters and I have raised many fry by this way assuming no other fish are in the tank and the parents are well fed. These are not true tropical fish they do best at about 72 degrees.they come from China originally but today most are farm raised. The gold ones are a hybrid>there is also a long finned hybrid that is very pretty but hard to find