[anasfire23]

Some of those site's are really good and I took a few different methods and combined them. Here's what I did.

I set my spawning tank up with alot of plants for the females to hide in aswell as a small shipwreck for hiding too. Fed them all, 2 females and 1 male, frozen blood worms for a week then placed my male into the spawning tank, placed the 2 female in seperate tanks next to him for 24 hrs then that night placed the 2 females in with him (I didn't bother with a hurricane cup or anything like that) I placed another one of my males in his tank next to the side where the styrofoam cup was for the bubble nest to create a little competition/jealousy and found that my male went immediatly to building a nest (occasionally stopping to flare and show off to the other male hahaha). After 3 days, and many bubble nest destroying and rebuilding later, I gave up, removed my females and was about to remove the male to do a water change when i noticed little white dots around the bubble nest. I figured these must be eggs coz i'd never seen anything like that before so instead I just carefully removed the plants and shipwreck so as not to disturb the nest and now 2 days later I have about 100-150 hatched fry. I think the idea of having 2 females in the tank makes them realize there is competition to breed and makes them want to spawn sooner. I don't know exactly what it was that made them spawn, but all the things I did obviously didn't hurt coz after 25 failed attempts I finally have fry! Good Luck to all those that want to breed but be warned, I know it seems like an awesome idea to breed these wonderful fish but eventually you'll end up having to seperate the males, and if you end up with 100 fry and roughly half of them are male you are going to need 50 seperate little containers to house them in, not to mention the room to put all those containers, until you can get rid of them. Which brings me to the next dillema, finding homes for 100 fish. Most pet stores already have suppliers and there are only so many you can give away.

Wish I'd thought of that a little more carefully before i'd spawned mine.

Once again good luck to everyone and check out those links, some great advice and ideas there, good one TF!

Edit 8/12/06: Turned out in that situatuion I actually had a male mistakenly identified as a female so there were actually 2 males in the tank with one femle and they still spawned! Talk about lucky! (I did find it strange that the male and what I thought was a female were fighting but just put it down to the spawning process)