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Are there any ways to 'increase ' breeding likelihood?!

Yes .... move house !

LOL sorry ... I of course meant " yes a female with a belly full of eggs and changes in temperature" .

I moved house - set up a temp at the new house, put them in it, bought old tank over and put them in it a couple of days later and hey presto

hahaha i was like move house? LOL

Well yeah moving house would be one of the more expensive and disruptive ways of doing it

Our girl got pretty fat on it just before we shifted (eggs) - we didnt intentionally breed them (hence my not being properly set up this time around).

Having done it the hard way, I would really recommend getting well set up first if you arent already - I was so unprepared and as a result my babies were disrupted far more than I believe they should have been even with culling anything that looked a bit " iffy" . Trying to keep them fed without an established daphnia colony meant having to purchase more on a regular basis and no doubt slower growth as well (although its my first lot so I have nothing to compare them to).

If I was deliberately breeding I would have ensured my girl was in peak condition first to reduce the risk of her getting sick/being vulnerable after the fact (I consider myself lucky there since she had not long before had a leg injury and had just regrown her leg) - made sure I had ample containers and filtration and a good stock of all the food needed at the various stages of growth.

I think I have actually been quite lucky not to have a major disaster on my hands ..... but I have also worked really hard to try and ensure that didnt happen.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing aye LOL.

Not suggesting that you havent sorted all that - just looking back at what I would have done differently.

wine, soft music and earthworms served on a bed of bloodworms..........
Sorry...clean, cool water. I have heard that changing the hours of light they get could help but I dont know how true it is. Have you tried moving one out into another tank for a while and then reuniting them again
I think we are coming to a close to our breeding season here in oz so might have to wait unitl next year

Oh really well i just got them so maybe they just want to get to know each other?

Mine seem to breed every time they move tanks. I had one batch when I added my male to my 2.5 ft tank, another lot when I moved them all to my 4 ft tank, then I split up the boys and girls and a week after putting a girl in with my boys i had more eggs.