Yes they are very shy. Females specialy. But they are veey beautiful when they seatle to aquarium

I use dr basseler fish food varities for all my fish. With decapsulated baby brine shrimp. Specialy when i feed breeders i use mosquito larvae or live brine shrimps.

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Most of the time upto 2 years. I have no experience more then 2 years. Usually 1 to 2 years

No.no. keep them in same tank until 3 or 4 days. Feed them very small am9unt of egg yolk solution. After day 5 you can transfer if you want. I put eggs 3 days into same tank. Next 3 days to a another tank. It is easy.

@@SerendibAquatics i see. do you do small water change to this fry tank until day 5 when you move them? i guess i worry the feeding would contaminate the egg that hasn’t hatched.

It is according to the fry count and amount of egg yolk you put to the tank. Purpose of water change in fry tank is maintain the water quality. Most of the time when we use egg yolk solution , remain foods produce ammonia and waste products. When we do daily small water changes it is better to maintain water chemistry of the tank. I also feed them but contamination may be their. Tanin contain water give some protection and low dose of food may be effective against contamination.

Ok. Thank you. Most of the times breeders may not send the females. But if you have one female fish, it is enough for the breeding. Try to find one or two females. They are very beautiful.

They are cenepa red pencil fish. I will put the link which we breed them.

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Yes correct. But i kept some more fish with them. To confirm the stability of tank I aerate all my tanks. 1) it will help to give proper oxygen into the water. 2) toxic gas ( ammonia and clorine ) will go out with it. 3) water movements give the active aquarium feeling. You are correct without aeration we can keep medaka rice fish

@@SerendibAquatics Medaka keeper here as well greetings from asia <3

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Yes. Sure now all my 1st batch have colurs.

Thank you for your valuble comment. Now one of my asian rummynose tank i have more than 15 adults and more than 20 sub adults . In that tank initialy more than 40 cherry shrimps. Due to dense plant growth in that tank i thought shrimps will survive but following 1.5 months now there are no any cherry shrimps in that tank. Aian rummynose have unique sets of behaviors. Good luck for your breesing project ! If you have any question feel free to put comment below. Thank you again.

Initialy we should put them in a target feeding tank. Now i use 5 galloon plastic container for it. But following day 14 to 20 you should put them into a separate large tank. Now I use 2 ×1 ×1 glass tank for it. Thank you.

Superb. Thank yoy for share your experience. Please share if you have any more.

If we put very small number of fry into very large tank with much more plants without any other fish they will survive. If we separate 3 fry and try to feed them most of the time it will fail. If you have less number of fry. Below 10 please keep them in a large tank with much more plants they will grow slowly. Next time try it.

@@SerendibAquatics thank you so much I will try next time.

I will try my best to find one site. Thank you

Yes they can. But in the early stages of life cycle.

Yes. They will breed in that temperature also. But when temperature is drop towards 18 celsius i saw marked increase of hatching rate. Now i keep my CPD in 29 celsius and when we compare to low temperature breeding capacity is drop when the temperature increase. In 24 celcius means average temperature. They will breed well. Thank you for sharering your knowledge.

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Sure. They are living together in my tanks. But they will eat small shrimplets occationally.

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@@SerendibAquatics Is it AI voice though?

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They are platinum half beak. Very nice surface dwelling fish. They have Very unique sets of behaviours. I will update with full breeding guide. Now already i breed them.

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I tink best option is make a separate tank and season it. Then put much more java moss. Keep your females in that tank for 7 days and feed them good live diet. Then after 1 week put your male. After 2 days remove all adults from tank and keep the tank for 10 days. After 3 days daily observe for small fry. When you see some fry. Start to feed day 1 fry with serendib aquatic prime egg yolk solution up to day 5 of free swim. Good luck !

Most of the time all sellers sell males only they come from S america most of the times only 10 % females . Most sellers sell pale colour fish as females.I laso bought several times pale colour fish. But when we put them into well stablished aquarium, they got the true colours. Then i went to the shop and took all females as per my knowledge. In that shop there are 50 fish. Only 2 females were there. All behaviours are same like cenepa male fish. Body shape. Fin shapes all are similer to Male cenepa. Female cenepa have zero red colour. In contrast to Amaya pencil fish. I already had amaya pencil also. Their female also the same as cenepa female but only differ is they have shade of red colour in dorsal and anal fin. I checked thailand and singapore wild cought wholesale shops, all have same females but very few. I Will update about fry. Please try to select female fish as my description your own.

@@SerendibAquatics Thank you. I’ll be on the lookout for females, but I suspect that they’re hard to find because collectors probably think that only the colorful fish are worth harvesting from the wild because they’re more likely to sell. I’ve had a similar issue with Dario dario (scarlet badis). It’s so difficult to find females. Whenever I think I’ve found one with very little color, I purchase it only to have it become red with a little bit of time.

Scarlet, i also have the same problem. Only have males. I m also searching females these days. Thank you for share your knowledge.

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Correct. They are much more expensive rare fish.

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When we compare cherry ( neocaridina ) and Cenepa red pencil. Cenepa had less therapeautic range of parameters. Also we have less knowledge. But neocaridina shrimp have much more therapeutic range parameters. Then they can bare much more different environment. Neocaridina mostly depend on water temperature and TDS vakue. 22 to 30 celcius. 50 to 130 TDs neocaridina survive and also breed. Ph also 6.5 to 8.2 neocaridina breed. Then ww can understand with this range i maintain cenepa red tank. Then both can live todether. But the problem is cenepa breeding. Cenepa will not breed without natural environmant. Water colour also should change to bit tanin brown colour. And flow also very low. Such things we can see here.

Thank you. We will do a neon green rasbora breeding guide.

@serandibaquatics that is brilliant news. I love your vids and doing my joint second fave fish would be awesome

i find the kubotais breed most days in a full jungle overplanted tank especially if you hatch baby brine for them often i see very very tiny fry swimming on top most days. never had one survive in the tank though they all get eaten i think. to raise the fry i have to remove the fry to a grow out tank(i use 10ltr buckets). i bought 12 juvenile kubes in Nov 23 and have raised close to 150 fry and left as many if not more in with the parents. good luck and cant wait to see the video. i may even try making one myself one day. i have a youtube short of the fry and another short of the tank and feeding the adults but i dont know how to edit at all its bad quality,i just put it out because theres not much info on breeding them on yt lol. great wishes to anyone that enjoy these beautiful fish

@its_elser I bought 6 juveniles but ended up with 7 by mistake. ( on fish stores part, not that I'm complaining ) I have a community planted tank but have a egg collector. Hoping them and CPDs when I purchase them breed in box ( auto egg collector )with moss is. It's only place where moss is rest is various stem plants or crypts

@@nameunknown3735 im sure that would work,i see people doing cpds like that on yt with great success. i was going to try that myself once i learned about it but i didnt end up needing to.(it would be easier) i got 12 (they are pretty rare here in Aus) but 1 jumped out the first night :(. i kept one i raised and sold the rest.i have a lot of 30 going to sell in a few days and a lot of 50 3 weeks behind that. i can start collecting the fry again now i will have room again.

Thank you. We will do a chilli rasbora breeding guide in future.

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Thank you very much. Yes it is very beautiful country which home to much more tropical fish.

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Thank you for your valuble comment. I ll try to find wild betta and start breeding project as soon i find them.

Thank you. Next time we will avoid it. Soory

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It is 180 liters volume tank. Have many more live plants, small fish and shrimps. Thank you .

Will do a vedeo. Thank you.

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Thank you. I will make good vedeos. Much appreciated!

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Good luck ! Try different varities. There are more than 200 varients.