Jelly Bean Tetra - Ladigesia roloffi - Federation of British Aquatic ...

I use foods such as chopped up garden worms or whole smaller ones, plus
Whiteworm and Daphnia if you can get them. I put a flat bottom container
on my pathway next to my lawn and the worms collect under it without me
having to dig any up. With this heavy feeding you can see why it is
necessary to carry out water changes every day.
As the weather gets warmer and the weather improves, around now to
early April, your adults should be ready for breeding. Place a pair in a tank
that receives a lot of light. Use a spawning medium such as wool mops,
plus plants like Willowmoss, Hornwort etc.
The water
temperature
should now be
near 65 o F.
Once the pair
have spawned
with eggs being
seen in the plants
and/or wool mops,
remove the adults
into a separate
tank to recover.
Raise the temperature in the spawning tank to 70 o F and once the fry are
free-swimming feed them on Brine Shrimp. As the fry grow, sort them out
for any mis-shaped ones (and any ‘single-tails’ in fish that should be twintailed)
and cull. Often your local shop will be pleased to take them off your
hands.
Feeding should continue with small-sized Daphnia or chopped Whiteworm,
plus same small amounts of dry food. Allow about thirty fry to be reared in a
3ft tank, and as the fry grow reduce this number. Most importantly, do not
raise any more fish than you can house in the tanks and space available.
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