Instructions for rearing
Rainbow fish should be targeted for breeding, in a ratio of 1 male to 1 female, e.g. B. 2 pairs. Groups of three with 2 females and one male are also recommended. Young fish are usually eaten up in the community tank. The species Melanotaenia splendida australis, Melanotaenia boesemani and Melanotaenia praecox mate with each other.
The young are very small in the first few days and must be fed with appropriately fine food.
Fine Lining:
- sera micron
- Infusoria, i.e. slipper animals and rotifers
- filter material
- green water, i.e. unicellular algae
- dried spirulina
- dried chlorella
- Cyclopsnauplii
- coffee creamer
- hard-boiled egg yolk
- very finely ground dry food
- Liquifry
If only a few young need to be fed, then it is enough to squeeze out filter material and feed the cloudy broth. The substrate can also be whirled up. In this way, only a little broth should be fed per meal. This should be fed several times a day.
Hornwort, some java moss, Riccia, slightly muddy pieces of moss balls, etc. also provide food if only a few larvae are present. In addition, one drop of Liquifry can be given 3 times a day. Eg Cyclops then multiply abundantly.
Even with good feeding, rainbow fish grow so slowly that you hardly notice the growth at first. In the case of a 1-week-old juvenile fish, it can only be seen that it has really grown somewhat in comparison with a juvenile fish that has just hatched.
The feed must remain near the surface for as long as possible. The young are particularly surface-oriented in the first week of life.
Youngsters grow fastest with Cyclopsnauplii. Because the nauplii grow quickly, they must be ponded at least every 3 days.
Microworms should not be fed at all or only extremely sparingly. Microworms are 2 to 3 millimeters long but very thin. Rainbow fish are sensitive to the small amounts of collagen in the microworms. Juvenile fish of other species are apparently not so sensitive.
Rainbow fish spawn can be mailed.