Love your videos mark. Your passion for the hobby comes across really well and is contagious. I have 6 Tropical tanks currently after getting back into the hobby 18 months ago. A salt water tank is next on my agenda at the end of our summer season. ( i live and work in mallorca) so your videos have been a massive help
I like how you pin point your topics with the "key moments", format means a lot when watching videos. I now have a reference to point other folks to...my compliments.
Hey mark. I’d just like to take a moment to thank you for teaching me, or all of us who watch your vids, so much. I’m pete from Australia. Through my daughter wanting and aquarium I’ve gotten back into fish keeping after about 35 or maybe 40 years. Been back into it for about 3 years now and I’m up to 9 tanks. I’ve breed a bunch of mollies and cories and some danios but that was before I learnt about the raising of the food ( infosroria, brine shrimp and Walter worms) , pardon the spelling. After watching your vids I’ve been successful. So I’m about to start the breeding of tetras and maybe danios and super excited. I found your channel after reading an article about matters filters in practical fish keeping magazines, that I get specially sent in, from my newsagent. This magazine is from England as we have nothing like it here. After U tubing how to I found you and now I’m a huge fan. Once again thanks and keep up the awesome work👍🏼I watch and hang off every word. You are a champion. PS, wife not a big fan as she doesn’t see me as much🤣🤣🤣🤣
These freshwater breeding videos are the reason I'm subbed, thanks for another one. Would love to hear your thoughts on shipping live fish. It has become impossible in alot of EU countries, in Finland no courier accepts live fish anymore. Makes it unviable to breed fish as a side business, I feel.
Hi mark, subbed your channel last week and binged watched you constantly since; this is a fantastic channel so interesting and informative , I’m wanting to build the exact set up that you have right down to the indoor/outdoor pond, I had decided this even before I saw yours , it’s unbelievable, during one of your videos please could you show a full spec of your whole shed set up , thank you stay safe
Thank you Mark you're an absolute star ⭐⭐⭐ I actually picked up a few days a go 5 very large Harlequin's that matched my last remaining male tho sadly have lost 4 ( should have worn glasses to the fish shop as think they not long been been in and had ammonia damage from the trip over here ) but do have one is still strong one that looks to to be female so there is hope
Very interesting for me to see this. I've mentioned before that I've had 7 harlequins in a community tank for about 4 years now. They constantly do that sparring stuff but I didn't know if there was any egg laying happening. Now I can see what happens regards the female, I will take a closer look, but I do think I have all males.
I don't like it when some one starts a project and doesn't Finnish it. As subcribers we like to follow people or in this case follow the fish. Far credit to uploader though you have done some really good breeding fish projects.
Harlequin rasboras are one of my favorite schooling fish. If I had to guess, I'd say the trio that seems to be spawning are Harlequins and the other two are a different rasbora, possibly lamb chop rasboras.
Hi Mark, I've been subscribed/watching for a while now (I started with the breeding WCMM series and I have worked my way through most of your earlier videos too) and I'm definitely a fan. So, when you mention (at 09:08-ish) "They want it just slightly acidic to get 'em to go". "Obviously from the Amazon, places like that".... I'm 'sure' it was a deliberate mistake, just to check which of us watching at 02:18 am are still alert and paying attention. :) Seriously though, Harlequins are one of the first fish I took a shine to, some months ago, during the preliminary reading up/research phase before actually getting into the hobby. Because the water where I am is medium - quite hard (Gh: 24/25, Kh: 8/9 with a Ph: 7.4) and I didn't want to unnecessarily stress my starter fish / invest in R.O. equipment for what was at that point a fledgling (or, in aquatic terms, a wriggler) hobby, I decided to start with more suitable species. For the past few months I've been finding my feet, as it were, with one tank of 8 x longfin Leopard/Blue Danios, 8 x Amano shrimp and a couple of Zebra Nerite snails (danios added 9th Aug 2019, shrimp and snails over following weeks), another with Red Cherry Shrimp (started with 10, November 15th 2019, now have 70+) and a third with 12 x Blue Diamond Neocaridina davidi shrimp (23rd January 2020, with Tangerine Tigers and then Celestial Pearl Danios to be added). My next project is a Fluval Flex 34l I'm wanting to set up and use for a Betta and with which I'll be experimenting with R.O./tapwater mixes. If that goes well, I hope to then try a soft-water S.E. Asia type set-up with both Harlequin and Chilli Rasboras and maybe Pangio Semicincta Kuhli Loaches. I look forward to the next video(s) in this series. ° ° °
Hi Mark, have thoroughly enjoyed all of the breeding content! When using rainwater for these rasboras and tetra species to keep a lower ph ( or if Ro water is used ), do you add any kh buffer out of fear of ph swings or ph rising or is this a myth that us less experienced hobbyist believe? So much conflicting info out there on the subject. Thank you for all the great content you provide us mark!
two of the smaller rasboras don't look like Harlequins, but possibly a different species. The H. Rasboras have a pork chop shaped black mark from the mid line to the peduncle. The two oddball ones have a narrower shape near the midpoint of the body going towards the peduncle. These two do not seem egg bound nor interested in the Harlequin female and seem to be swimming closer to the bottom of the tank.
I've had one female attempt to deposit several times but the males never paid her any attention :/ I was excited to possibly having babies but it wasn't meant to be i guess
Bruh I was wondering why my rasboras were chasing each other. I wasnt really intending on breeding them though, and my PH is at 7.6 so i dont think i will see any eggs. I have 2 of them that are pretty fat but since i didnt intend on breeding them i out them with a betta fish, a snail, and some shrimp together so i most likely wont be able to see fry.
Your breeding videos are the best! I was breeding Galaxy Rasboras for 4 years and now I'm still trying for more than 3 months to breed Green Rasboras(Microdevario Kubotai), but no succes. Do you think it's the same technique as for Chilli, Galaxy or Harlequin?
I don't have anymore, most of them died on the floor, very good jumpers, but at one moment my aquarium had more than 20 babies, which of course were eaten by the adults in 2 weeks cause there was not eough plants at that time, but I didn't do anything special, more food, frozen or alive. Now I have Rasboras again :)@@05cinnamon786
Mark, on an earlier video (can't find it now) you showed how to make Spirulina sticks for shrimp. Can I ask how long the sticks need to dry for before they can go in the tanks?
I have them spawning in a DIY blackwater tank with lots of wood, alder cones, leaves and amazon swords. They started spawning within a day but I suspect my gourami is eating the eggs. They have been at it for a few weeks now, got a group of 7
I'm getting my new tank and fahaka puffer next week. Was meant to be getting puffer two weeks later but now it's same day. Want to cycle tank immediately and been told to use Api quick start or tetra aqua safe and Api tap water conditioner. Then add him straight away. Would you say this is OK. I have other aquariums but always cycled naturally
@@stephen-truthseeker User name checks out :) I think the Harlequin Rasboras are called Pork Chops and the ones with the thinner markings are called Lamb Chop Rasboras (a different species). I don't know if they can cross breed.
Mark would you say that fish will breed if you use chemical buffer like API 6.5 PH buffer to adjust to PH? Or does it have to be done naturally, with no exceptions?
I have tried to breed these 5-6 times so far. Every time i get the same results. They keep doing the same thing as you showed in the video, but female never deposits any eggs. They want to spawn every time, but for some reason females just dont deposit any eggs. I even tried putting net on the bottom in case some fall off, but still no luck. And yes, i've observed them for hours waiting to see at least one egg with no luck.... Mark, do you have any advice on this? Parameters are same as yours, pH is 6.5 and gH is 1-3
