Breeding LG6 - mix Blood Fin Tetra ( Warning )

[bigbird]

Hello All,

I have in my 5ft set up 6 x L080, 6 x L129 and 1M2F LG6 royal whiptails, 9 cory adolfi and 1 Cory Agassisi. I wish to inform you of my observation of the blood fin tetra and LG6 fry. Before I got my blood fins, the LG6 bred at regular intervals and I was getting them up to stage 2weeks of fry stage. I could always see the fry swimming etc. As I was not target feeding, they perrished. Now my LG6 still spawn in this tank, but since I introduced the blood fin, I can see and have observed that they are very clever. They somehow know that the male is sitting on eggs and when the eggs turn dark ( so close to free swimming) the blood fins would congregate under the 50 egss or so and wait. Since then I have never seen a fry or one swimming around and have noticed that the blood fin is an extremely intelligent hunter of fry.
This has been my observation and when I get back from holiday I will have to remove my 12 blood fins and get credit from my LFS and go back to my beloved rummy noses.
This just FYI as a warning to others. Cheers jk :thumbup:

 

[xingu]

Interesting, I have 4 glass bloodfin in a small tank in my bedroom that I am going to try and breed C. panda or Apistos in.

WIll have to keep an eye out as and when the Corys get it on.

 

[Joby]

Cunning little things enjoying a tasty snack :wb: Hopefully they will fair better with the rummy nose.

I prefer to have species only in my breeding tanks as I've had endlers and swordtails take fry, even cory have been known to snaffle them :cry:

 

[bigbird]

i must say, it is interesting to read the different views. I have had the rummy nose in with the LG6 and no problem at all with the fry. The blood fin is all together a very different family set up with dominant males and boundaries. cheers jk :thumbup:

 

[Bigjohnnofish]

red lizard whiptails will hunt and take royal whiptail fry... quite interesting to watch them... wait till they are within their striking zone then bang chomp chomp chomp....

 

[Irene0100]

yes breeding in community tank is often a problem. thanks for warning people