Hey do white cloud minnow birth live young or lay eggs. i have a few extremely fat minnows while some are thinner. They look alot like swordtails do before they spit out fry. Anyone had any experience?
Dunluce
Dunluce
white cloud minnows
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White Clouds are egg scatterers in plants. They will not eat their eggs or young but if there are other fish in the tank, they will clean the babies & eggs out.
Thanks for the info. I will transfer them to the new tank once it's cycled. do you know at all if they have a Season. Do they breed at the onset of spring {I'll adjust daylength} or are they a bit like people, whenever the chance arises. In which case I'll wait and see. It's cool because I'd heard about them online but never seen them available in Australia. Hence why I jumped a the chance when i saw them. Unfortumately I grabbed the danios at the same time and thats where the problems arose. Maybe also although they are small, I did add 5 clouds and 4 danios at once it coold have spiked the nitrates. I havent got a kit for testing for it, thats my next buy. Always tested hardness and ph,chlorine etc but was never given the goods on nitrate testing. It explains so many of my losses when I started out in my teens. Initially i was cleaning my tank entirely every few months rinsing the gravel totally, even hitting it with hot water in a hope to eradicate any ick in the gravel. I had no idea atthe time that i was killing all the bacteria and essentially re cycling my tank constantly. no wonder the only survivors were swords. Hardy little buggers. Long time ago and many lessons learnt.
Dunluce2 said:
I think a lot of us were like that. Never mind the hot water thing, I used to use dishsoap, too! Poor little guppies in an unheated, unfiltered goldfish bowl.... they still contantly had babies, though none of those ever survived, little wonder...
Anyhow, I always like reading Robyn's pages on different fish, here's the one on White Clouds:
http://www.fishpondinfo.com/wcmm.htm
So, you become an expert, because in the eventuality I ever get my new tank set up, I have thought about white clouds for my old tank.
I love whie clouds 
They don't gobble up all their young, but I always seemed to have more fry when there was a big cloud of java moss for them to hide in. That is also where the spawning happens
The fry change colors as they grow. at one point they look like baby neon tetra.
They spawn year round IME.
Have fun!
They don't gobble up all their young, but I always seemed to have more fry when there was a big cloud of java moss for them to hide in. That is also where the spawning happens
The fry change colors as they grow. at one point they look like baby neon tetra.
They spawn year round IME.
Have fun!
fantastic, well thats signed the deal for the new tank. it is solely white cloud territory. My wife wanted some kissing gourami but they can cohabitat with the barbs and swords. Im too impressed with the new clouds.
I bought a couple of the long fin white clouds, an impulse buy for my community tank and I am very impressed with them. I have two that play and follow each other around constantly. I put sand down for the cories and they seem to love it as much as the cories. The white clouds are great fish :dance:
I've seen two different color morphs too. One are golden white clouds. They are pale yellow until you put them outside, then they are a wonderful golden color. Just yesterday I saw albino white clouds too. They were labeled as goldens, but they certainly didn't look like the goldens I had. They have the pinkish eyes and fin tips of albinos. They were kind of creepy, IMO, but some people love albino fish.
I love my white clouds. They have been living for close to 4 years now in their heavily planted 10 gallon tank (5 of them). They will soon be moving into a nice new 29 gallon setup and getting new friends. My personal experience has shown that they thrive in heavily planted cool water tanks. Mine have vibrant colours and are still super active (water temp 68-72 F). They live with a family of cory catfish (bronze mostly) and all get along very well. While the white clouds have not successfully breed the cories have the white clouds leave them all alone. Very nice group.