HOW TO BREED WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAIN MINNOWS! (EASY AND FUN!)

Today we're going to learn how to breed white cloud mountain minnows, or Tanichthys albonubes. They are a beautiful egg scattering fish and very easy to breed in your aquarium!

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[probablynothung]

People should be like you. Straight to the point, simple. You're absolutely amazing, sir. Please keep doing contents like this.

I'll be happy to see how to breed tetras

[gregjonesonline]

great info! i started with 6 of them in an IBC tote in my greenhouse last spring and ended up with around 500 by the fall, bare bottom IBC tote, no marbles or false bottom (although i may try it this year), since the totes are connected to a 1, 000 gallon outdoor pond they got an unlimited supply of infusoria after hatching and they ate that until they were large enough for flake. I will be conditioning adults and feeding fry BBS this spring to try to boost my numbers. These fish are absurdly prolific when kept in a species-only environment

[truijs]

Love these fish! A friend of mine has them in here outdoor pond which has ice on it during the winter. She started with 8 a few years ago, now it’s a massive school that’s too big to count.

[christianschmidt]

Great vid. thank u. They can survive well in freezing temps too. My family of 17 white clouds just survived winter in NY in a 35 gallon patio pond with de-icer. It went down to -7 this winter. They are now coming out of hibernation, healthy and chipper as ever.. Amazin. Big breeding season ahead.

[krystled]

One of the greatest videos on breeding white clouds!! What do you do about planaria and preventing them from eating the fry?

[lucasfaley]

Thanks for the video. I'm looking forward to your fry siphon video - I think the balance between maintaining water quality and not sucking up fry is one of the more stressful parts of breeding fish for me.

[pecosRB]

Bought 12, received 11, tossed them in a well cycled 10 gallon with several plants and just kept feeding them live baby brine and high quality flake and some blood worms and tubifex worms and they started having babies. I transfer them to another tank to grow out that just has some neos and other fry. I only do weekly third water changes lol. That tank is also well established. Might do your method since it will yield me more fry

[paulstingray]

Lovely I just got some Longfin and emerald ( different species) to breed 🎉

[kenjiro]

I’ve read that they make amazing pond fish with their wide temperature range, from freezing cold to warm summer temperatures.

I’m trying them out this year in a 20 gallon tub with medaka rice fish. 3 males (2 gold 1 wild color) and 5 females (1 gold, 4 wild color).

I hope to produce more golds, but through a process called outcrossing. A gold x wild cross produces half and half. I’ll take half of the gold offspring and breed them back to the gold males to produce more golds.

I’ll take the resulting females from that gold x (gold x wild) cross and cross them back to another wild male I have indoors to widen the gene pool of the golden line further, before crossing them back to gold again.

[audrameyer]

Thanks for sharing this info! Great footage 😊

[mickche]

Hi Dan! Nice short video. I have 8 young ones and waiting for them to mature then breed. Thanks for the tips.

[icdesignz]

I have a 10g cherry shrimp tank that I added 6 minnows too. I have a 3/3 mix of males and females. My substraight is sand and today I saw a baby minnow 😳.

[TarakPatel-yy]

Left my parents in there, also the two large goldfish! I think the more heavily planted the more likely they won’t cling to the glass

[svenrufus]

Are these details the same/similar for Vietnamese Cardinal Minnow? They look almost identical, but who knows if they have different needs...

[relaxanchill]

wheres everybpdy getting brine shrimp eggs i havent come across them but ive always wanted to use them.

[louieloudog]

They are pretty cool little fish Dan! I've heard you speak of them before but never really looked into them. The red on the males is pretty sweet! I really need to get RO water and sink down in my basement, it definitely would make my maintenance so much easier. I keep talking about it but unfortunately that's all I've been doing! Lol I can sometimes be what some may call a procrastinator! Lol 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Beepbeep_its_treasure]

Wow! This is amazing, I love your commitment to those babies. I just received some minnows, I'm not sure if they are young or just under fed? I'm trying to figure out their sex

[Conti]

Great video! Have 13 of the golden variant for a while now and thought about breeding them. Just a few ones for myself. They live in a rather densely planted tank (mostly Buce) with snails and a pair of trichogaster chuna. Haven't seen any fry yet. Guess they get eaten. Do you think the DIY Automatic egg trap from your other video could work for them too? Cause I really liked that build. If so, marbles or some good old Java Moss as spawning medium? Like I said, don't want to breed huge numbers (yet), just making sure some eggs get the chance to develop and increase my numbers of these beauties. Also never (actively) tried to breed fish before...

Keep up the good work!

[Jlui]

Could you breed them in a tank with a auto egg catcher like CPDs?

[StoneAquatics]

I’ve had them in my planted tank for like three years… have a empty ten gallon to the side really want to try this again. I had tried in the past. Did marbles with moss but no babies maybe they were to young