The pair consists of a male and a female (duh) with the female being roughly 45cm and 3.5 years old, and the male being 35-40cm and 3.5 years old.
I added grass mats which are key to breeding lower jaw species such as senegals, but I dont believe that they had much of an impact with the tigers as the eggs were scattered all over the tank. As you do with most species, I tried to re-create their natural environment by adding lots of real plants and cover.
The breeding was then simulated after heavy and varied feeding and a big cold water change. The breeding period lasted for around 4 days where they were continuously laying eggs with a total of 900+ eggs being laid in total.
I collected as many eggs as I could and separated them from the parents (the parents will eat the eggs). I placed the eggs in a small breeding box right near the a wavemaker so that there was water flowing over them continuously to prevent the growth of fungus.
Around 25 of the 900+ eggs hatched, this was most likely due to the male being inexperienced with fertilising the eggs so hopefully next time I get a larger number to hatch. The fry then hatched after 3 days and they were approximately 5-7mm long. They fed off their yolksack for the next week. After this week had passed I began feeding baby brine shrimp. However it became too hard for me too hatch enough brine for 3+ feedings a day as I am too busy (only just found out that aquotix sold frozen bb), so I switched to feeding crushed up (under the mortar and pestle) blood worms and daphnia. Quite a few of them started eating instantly and the ones that didnt eat died at around 6-7 day mark. I had approximately 12 fry that were readily taking the food and had grown a considerable amount. The fry were around 2cm and 2 weeks old when I had a power outage overnight which unfortunately killed all of them.
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