Ep. annulatus

 

Please note that my water has a hardness of 50 ppm, a pH of between 6.5 and 7.1 and contains a teaspoon of salt per gallon.

I use a 5 gallon tank at eye level with the plants (require moderate light from above) a small sunken mop and a box filter containing only aquarium gravel (no cover and no filter material). After a few weeks you will begin to see fry at the air/water interface. They are quite small (and fast). I siphon some 50% of the breeding tank water into another 5 gallon tank set up right next to it with the same plants - no filter. The plants apparently have enough microorganisms, etc. on them to give the fry food for the first week. The fry are sucked out with an eyedropper and placed into the new tank.

Once I get to about 50 fry, I start another rearing tank. (You should get about
5 per day. When they appear large enough, I feed live baby brine shrimp. Once
about half an inch in length, I transfer them to a ten gallon tank. They don't
cannibalize each other but I do cull out the larger ones from time to time.

Good Luck,

Tanks,

Bob Schwiegerath