Killieggs in spawning mop

Video – DIY – How to make a spawning mop for fish breeding

In this video we show: DIY – How to make a spawning mop for fish breeding. If you want to breed killifish, rainbow fish, tetras, barbs or other egg laying aquarium fish, a spawning mop comes in real handy. It is essentially a substitute for the plants and plant roots, that fish like to scatter […]

Red Phantom Tetra – Hyphessobrycon sweglesi

Hyphessobrycon sweglesi, formerly known as Megalamphodus sweglisi is a species that lives in the Orinoco River drainage basin in South America.  They are small and peaceful but very lively fish, that thrives in large shoals. I keep a shoal in one of my tanks, and they breed at a regular basis. No fry seems to survive though, […]

Columbian Tetra – natural breeding setup

Today it’s a short update on my tank with Columbian Tetra – Hyphessobrycon columbianus About a year ago I bought a shoal of Columbian Tetras. I think I bought 8 or 10, but some of them died along the way. But during last winter a few fry grew up in the tank, to compensate for […]