Beginner Breeder Fish Please

[Tom4Fish]

Rite i have decided i am ready to try my first attempt at breeding fish, and basicly i ned your help. Please try and answer these questions as fully and clear as possible

NOTE: please dont saugest guppys

1. What fish would you recomend ( try to say why )
2. Eany special equipment i will need
3. what size tank will they need + is tankmates ok?
4. how to breed
5. rearing fry

 

[Ben L]

how about platys they are livebearers so you wont have to worry about fungus on eggs etc and the fry are born big enough to take commercial foods. any thing that can fit them in their mouths will though so no tank mates really not even parent fish. no specially gear needed either.

 

[backtotropical]

For your first breed, i would try mollies. REALLY easy.

Put 2 or 3 females and 1 male in the tank, preferably with a few live plants. Feed well and wait.

 

[Tom4Fish]

thanks alot guys keep saugesting


NOTE: i am reserching your saugestions then i will pick one i like most so evrey message helps

 

[Ben L]

or if you wanted something more interesting you could try some dwarf cichlids apistos maybe. then you get parental care to watch as well.

 

[dwarfgourami]

If you don't want guppies, then presumably you might not be keen on mollies or platies either. Which sounds wise, as all lfs are overrun with these.

You could try some less common livebearers, if you can get hold of them, like merry widows or heterandria formosa. Babies should eat powdered fry food.

Or you could go for egglayers. Lots of people on this forum are breeding bristlenose plecs atm. You need a fair sized tank (I'd say at least 3 foot), with caves or other hiding places (mine bred in a Roman amphora type ornament and in a piece of bogwood. Bristlies you can breed in a community tank as the dads protects the babies. A male-female pair should be fine, and you probably won't have to do much conditioning if they are fed a good diet anyway. Babies will eat same vegetable diet as parents once they have consumed yolk sac.

Many corydoras species would fit the bill: bronze corys (including albinos) are said to be the easiest. 2 males per female, condition well on live foods and do water change with cooler water. Babies will eat liquifry or similar.

Danios are said to be quite easy.

If your water is not too hard, maybe cherry barbs.

 

[Tom4Fish]

how big would the parents need to be if i chose corydoras ( bronze albino)

 

[Ben L]

fry that i have bred spawned themselves at about 9 months old i think, but they may spawn younger as i never really made an effort to intentionally breed from them they just did it in a community tank i put them in.

 

[Tom4Fish]

i meen sizewise so i no what to look for

 

[Ben L]

a couple of inches i suppose they dont get much bigger than that though.

 

[drewry]

how big would the parents need to be if i chose corydoras ( bronze albino)

heres a bit of info on corys
http/www.aqualandpetsplus.com/Catfish,%20Corydoras.htm

 

[afishdude]

^^^

 

[Tom4Fish]

great any other fish saugestions

 

[jim566]

got to be ancistrus(BN's) for me give them a cave and away they go, fit in really well in a medium to larger community setup minimum of around 120l for a pair, and i'd say thier almost as prolific breeders as guppies once they get going. remeber they do like to poo a lot tho so regular gravel vacs and water chages required.

 

[Tom4Fish]

comon i still havent picked one i like lol