Struggling with Fish Eggs Hatching? My Tips to Better Success Breeding Fish

Your fish have spawned, but you're struggling to get those eggs to hatch. Maybe you get fungus on your eggs, or you're worried they aren't being fertilized - watch this video and I'll teach you how to be more successful in getting your baby fish to hatch!
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[@jennifersparks3435]

I loved the video it’s was a lot of information!! As a beginner I enjoyed and appreciated you taking the time to share some tips, I have EXTREMELY hard water and wasn’t sure what to do

[@ez-e9831]

Bentley I have been in the hobby for 25 + yrs. and learn something new from you on just about every video I watch. All I can say is Thank God for your knowledge of the hobby. Keep it coming we appreciate you.

[@nabokovfan87]

Very good tips and very helpful. Didn't know about the eggs getting a shell that they couldn't break out of. Makes sense!

[@Lonewolfblue66]

Thanks for all the information you have in your videos. There's lots to learn....

[@WhiteCloud746]

great topic to cover

[@jrherrick9871]

Great info!

[@trevorgregori9667]

Very good tips took me forever but finally got my Severums to have a healthy spawn.

[@SlickNick3]

Great tips Bentley! Unfortunately I haven’t seen any eggs yet to even worry about that with my pair of rams I’ve had for 10 months lol! Thanks for the info about methylene blue in ich x I have a bottle I’ve never opened before

[@hootyr13]

I just came across your video trying to find the best way to take care of my cory eggs I found in my tank yesterday! I have a small 1/2 gallon plastic container with water from parents tank and an air stone but was so worried about fungus since I have NO Methylene Blue but I DO have ICH-X! Thank you so much and wish me luck, this video made me less worried about the eggs now since they are turning darker and I see little eyeballs! :)

[@johnsonswanson8928]

Amazing video thank you so much after 4 months I finally have a clutch of L134's and searching everywhere for info, your video was awesome thank you for posting!!!!

[@BentleyPascoe]

Congrats!

[@ChucksFeeesh]

I breed CPDs and have for years now, and recently have been having a decline in egg hatching. I checked out this video to see if you could shine some light on my issue... sure as sh!t, I went to look at my stuff (chems, etc) and my Meth Blue is expired.... Idk how I missed that...

[@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030]

great video

[@dirtyoldfarmhand3]

Awesome

[@kimberlyburdick9666]

Also peroxide also..

[@geoffreycunningham7856]

Nice video, thanks for the suggestions. Is that a Hillsboro Hops hat? Love it!

[@BentleyPascoe]

Yes it is!

[@Self_Cancelled]

I keep losing eggs to fungus, i got methylene blue and it still didn't help, i do have high ph water, so im going to try some of the things you mentioned. 🤞

[@juliaglenn477]

Wonderful info thank you! With mathalyn blue can i put that in before they lay eggs or will that prevent fertilization?

[@BentleyPascoe]

You want to do it post fertilization, it could prevent fertilization otherwise. Cheers!

[@davidlee50]

What is the Water Test kit called and how do we use it? I live in Northern california and get my water from the towns well.

[@BentleyPascoe]

API master test kit

[@sarahwoodring5587]

Oh goodness, THANK YOU for addressing this! I've been so frustrated for the last three years because I just can't get eggs to hatch! I have super hard, high pH water, and this explanation really helped me understand the problem I'm having. I'm not a hopelessly bad fishkeeper, it's just the hard water! I'm not sure where I could find RO water, but you mentioned distilled water? Any tips on how I could use that to help, or do I just need to bite the bullet and buy a small RO unit?

[@sarahwoodring5587]

After a year of trying, I finally have angelfish wrigglers! I added 50% distilled water to my 8.2 pH, off-the-strip hard water and added ichX. Still had some eggs fungus, but it doesn't seem to have spread to the other eggs. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for the advice and explanation!!

[@haleyhesskew4783]

I have angel fish eggs and a fish expert by me said to use methylene. I separated the eggs into a 10 gallon and used the water from the community tank that the parents are in. She told me to use the methylene as directed on the bottle. So I used 1tsp for per 10 gallons, but I feel like it’s too much? What are your thoughts?

[@BentleyPascoe]

Likely more than you need. I would do a water change to dilute it Unless that person uses the same dosing, then keep as is.

[@mr.octopus6972]

Does malachite green works ?

[@BentleyPascoe]

Not really for this purpose

[@taylorlee4344]

Any tips on getting angelfish survival rate to 90+% outside of the first month of life? I lose a lot of babies in the first 2 weeks of a 100-200 egg spawn but if I can get them to survive 2 weeks and a day they’re bullet proof. I usually have 10-20 babies survive of 100-200 egg spawns. Any tips would be appreciated 😅

[@BentleyPascoe]

Check out this video here, hopefully it helps you out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6KrnoSGhJpjrJI It has wonderful details on his process to raise Angels.

[@billcoleman782]

Great info Bentley. I was wondering if you have any experience using hydrogen peroxide?

[@BentleyPascoe]

I do, I've used it in a spray bottle to mist plants with REALLY bad BBA outbreaks before. I just lowered the water level (or pulled out the plant) to expose the algae, gave it a gentle mist, then refilled the tank. the H2O2 (peroxide) almost immediately breaks apart in water to become safe

[@bettymarcos8500]

First time egg, Hatcher of rice fish do you have any tips?

[@BentleyPascoe]

Small foods and keep them in similar conditions as the parents. Rice fish can be pretty tough even as babies, which makes them a little easier to raise

[@pacificreefer4495]

Hello. You mentioned the eggs turning blue in methylene blue. Is the eggs turning blue bad?

[@BentleyPascoe]

That is typically a sign of an unfertilized egg.

[@pacificreefer4495]

@@BentleyPascoe oh man,that sucks! My sterbai just laid 30 eggs and I picked them out and put them in a little container (floating in the tank) and a drop of methylene blue. It looks like the eggs turned blue