Friday night (Feb 1) I managed to catch my spotfin shiners (Cyprinella spiloptera) spawning. Here is a video and some pictures. The tank is a 40g community (mostly but not all natives) and steady at about 70F. I collected these fish January 07'. There are three males and two females. They spawn often but I never bothered to remove and hatch the eggs. Not till now anyway. I will be trying to rear this batch.

The video is on Youtube, here is the link. The video is dark and not of great quality. About all you'll see is a blue flash zipping about. I did try though, I had a flashlight aimed at the tank, the tank light on and the room light on as well as an additional lamp. This is the most light I could put on the tank without freaking them out.

Congrats on the spawn(s)!

Good luck with raising the fry! What are you going to use for a first food?

Nice job, spotfins are one of my favorite local shiners. Too bad you couldn't get more light on the video when they get flashing around the colors seem to change with every quiver they make.

Congrats on the spawn(s)!

Good luck with raising the fry! What are you going to use for a first food?

Well I didn't originally intend on rearing these guys so I have no live food. It is going to have to be fry mash and frozen baby brine and daphnia.

Nice job, spotfins are one of my favorite local shiners. Too bad you couldn't get more light on the video when they get flashing around the colors seem to change with every quiver they make.

One of my favorites so far as well. A blast to watch them. I really wish I could have gotten more light but all well, better then nothing I figure. Maybe next time they'll actually do it during the day or something.