My glass catfish are pregnant!

[Babylon-warp]

I've had some glass catfish for over a year, and just recently alongside some water changes, two of them have gotten unusually big silver round bellies, it looks like they're full of eggs!

Apparently they would stick their eggs to some leaves and then all my fish would eat the babies, So what should I do to raise them, how long do you think it will take for the eggs to be laid? what should I do?

 

[fish_breeder_05]

go to one of those catfish only sites

 

[wataugachicken]

hmm. they sell hard plastic floating breeder contraptions. i suggest you get one of those, and when the eggs are laid, sacrifice those few plant leaves with the eggs on them and put it all into one of those little boxes (it floats right in the tank) maybe add an airstone b/c they don't get much current in there, and then just be patient. i think eggs generally hatch within a number of hours, up to 3 days. i'm not talking about catfish, just FW fish in general. you could probably feed them algae tablets or peeled, mushed peas at first.

 

[ghinksmon]

I don't recall hearing of them breeding. For some reason I would have assumed them to be egg scatterers. Guess I'm not giving them credit for being more "evolved".
Good luck.

 

[nursie]

www.planetcatfish.com
nice folks there.

May find someone here if you post in the loach/catfish forum.

 

[Babylon-warp]

Hey I will try some of that out, am going to make a diary of what happens here:
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=73644#73644

For the moment I'm going to try to draw a partition across the aquarium using a mosquito net to hold the catfish and if I can get the eggs I will raise them on Cyclops and baby Daphnia -thanks so much everyone!