Spawning white clouds

Seven white clouds were breeding in my 20g so I put them in a 1g jar and took this video. I raise over 80 tiny fry in the jar before transfering them to a 20g indoor pond. The WC's spawned three times for me and I raised over 80 fry to adults I've given about half away and still have most of them in the 40g tank with a few in my other large tanks! They are very good community tank fish.

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Pets & Animals

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• Tropical
• fish

[grannygup]

They were spawning about every 3-5 weeks that first year. I only saved the eggs twice - I raised about 80 to adulthood. I didn't have a teast kit then but my nitrates were probably high because I had a lot of algae in the tank as well - a sign that nitrates are high. White clouds prefer cool, hard water, with lots of rocks and plants.

[grannygup]

We have hard water and high PH (82 -84) so that might be a factor. After the fry were free swimming I transferred them to a 20g round tub with no filter or heater - just an airstone with tiny gentle bubbles moving softly. For food I chopped fresh spinach added some of the tank water and let in the sun for a couple of days - stirred it up and fed the fry with an eyed dropper full of spinach soup several times a day.

[10wnu8]

oh and java moss is also good! but it grows soooooo quick....they mate in it andwhen eggs hatch they stay under the java moss soo they cant get attacked

[10wnu8]

i also have 5 giant danios!

[10wnu8]

my white clouds are courting and possibly mating i have a 55-60l tank and 2 cabomba plants (they love) and a plant i dont know its name.....i feed the live frozen food 2-3 times a week and thats a mix of daphnia blood worms and artemia (brine shrimp)and flake foods....they thrash in and out of the cabomba you need hard water and water temp 20-24c and ph of 6-8 you also need a plant of cabomba or two and/or a clump of oxygenating plant like in this vid.............. all the best.....sprouty

[Char35805]

how do you breed white clouds??lyk what methods did u do??

[phsyco75]

thats awsome im definatly gonna try that. what do you put in with the white clouds? what are the water conditions?