Impressively, the female can cluster up to eggs at once, which the male will carefully watch over. Rosy Red minnow eggs take up to five days to hatch. Each cluster has about eggs that you might find on or in one of your aquarium structures. White Cloud minnow eggs will appear within one or two days of your adult fish breeding.
Golden White Cloud minnow eggs follow the same agenda as the regular White Cloud minnow fry. Good news: Minnows are some of the most hardy fish that require low upkeep. Fathead minnows thrive in gallon tanks with filters and can tolerate various pH levels. Their ideal breeding temperature is about 72 degrees. Remove the eggs after your fish spawn and place them in a different tank. Alternatively, separate the adults from the eggs.
Rosy Red minnows need a minimum 5-gallon tank, though a more spacious gallon is ideal. Keep the water at a comfortable 6 to 8 pH level and feed them plants and small crustaceans. Millions of young are produced in some ponds and only relatively few in others. There is considerable size variation among fish because fathead minnows spawn repeatedly over time. Harvested fish must then be graded to sort out saleable minnows from under-sized fish.
In minnow ponds that end up at too high a density, the fish may not grow enough to reach bait size. If the densities are too low, yields will also be low. With such variable yields, there is a tendency to transfer juveniles from heavily-stocked ponds, and spread them out at lower densities for growth. Unwanted fish species, such as mosquitofish, can be accidentally moved in the process.
Is there a better way? Major golden shiner and goldfish producers now tank-hatch eggs in indoor hatcheries and stock the fry into nursery ponds. This provides control over stocking densities, and prevents transmission of most diseases from adults to young. A hatchery system for fathead minnows could provide these same benefits. Fathead minnows are usually olive-colored and seldom exceed three inches in length.
They will also deposit eggs under rocks, boards or logs. Stocking Rates Fathead minnows are used throughout the U S as a bait fish for small predator fish such as crappie and walleye. If these minnows are added to a new bass-bluegill lake during initial stocking, they can reproduce and provide an abundance of small minnows to boost the growth of bass fingerlings.
Preferred stocking rates are 1, to 3, per acre or 10 to 20 pounds of minnows per acre. Older Lakes or Ponds As discussed, new pond stockings can benefit from stocking fathead minnows, however, established ponds or lakes benefit very little from stocking these minnows.
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Place two male and four female minnows in the tank. This will allow the male minnows have several females to reproduce with. Plan to remove the eggs. Have a second tank available to move the unhatched eggs to. If you do not remove them before they hatch, it will be difficult to remove the fry. The adult fish also tend to eat the fry.
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