Holy Cow - Baby Serpaes!

I only have 2 in my tank but it turns out they are a pair.
While feeding the fish tonight, 4 itty bitty serpae tetras popped out of the java moss. I have no idea how many in total there are but it was cool seeing these little ones. The largest of the 4 was swimming around grabbing flake food and the others which were smaller would dart in and out and grab a tiny flake.
Very cool!

Cool, what else do you have in the tank? I am actually more into fish than reptiles but the only non cichlids, non plecos, non live bearers (all the easy stuff) I have spawned were pearl danios and that unintentional much like your case. It's so much fun to watch the baby fish, like you said, darting in and out grabbing food and just trying to survive.

Giant danios, serpea tetras, gold barbs, colombian tetras, neon tetras, pleco, black shark and tons of hornwort and java moss.

Here are a few shots where I was able to catch the babies.

Serpae Tetras are actually very difficult to breed (or so they say). I took on the challenge once and dedicated a 75 gal to them with perfect water, tons of moss/plants, water movement, etc, etc... and never hatched a single one...

At the same time I put a few in with some of my Cichlids, and they bred in the Cichlid tank...

But that's my luck with fish :P


PS - yes I noticed this thread is over a year old, but it's not my fault the fish forum is dead.

^^Recovering Fish Junkie

WOW!! Congrats, Steve!!

I never attempted Serpaes when I was breeding fish, but I do know that those special, unintended breedings are what makes everyone's day!!

I had the same thing happen with my pearl-scale angelfish.

I was just ecstatic to find the little commas (that's what they look like) hanging from the side of the tank. I had no idea Momma even laid eggs on a piece of slate until I went in to move the fry to a better tank...with no predacious tank-mates.