Doing a big breeding project this summer

[bball4life]

I would like to do a big breeding project this summer, since I will have alot of time. I dont know what I want to breed yet though. I am already breeding guppies and trying to do platys. The one fish that I dont want to breed is convicts. I do want some kind of fish that is easy to breed. Does anyone have any ideas. Anything will help!!!

 

[yvez9]

you could try to breed rams, killifish, gouramis...

depends what kind of setup you have

 

[bball4life]

I have two set ups that arent in use one is 30 us gallon and the other is 25 us gallon. I was also thinking of angelfish.

 

[cichlid]

do a pair of convicts, they are the rabbits of the cichlidworld... they will breed over and over again.. to find a male and female is easy, the female has a very distinctly colored orange or pinkish bellly, or side... and the males usually have a nice hump on their head... buy 1 male and 2-4 females... make sure u have a male female pair, then just return the rest... sometimes u can even figure out if they a pair or not at the store, then u dont need to buy so many

 

[bettaboi]

if you have the time and patience try bettas my first spawn about 8 weeks old and its been the most rewarding thing ive ever done with my fish

 

[Tolak]

Before you start breeding anything, make sure you have a couple of shops to sell or give the fish to.

Raising an angel spawn to maturity takes a minimum of 200 gallons of tank space. That would be for a smaller spawn, with some serious culling. Check out this site http/www.webrbiz.com/angelfish/amh.html

Tolak

 

[bball4life]

Well I have bred convicts before, but not very succesfull. I have two convicts they bred once but then stopped because the male bred with another convict that I had but then after she laid her eggs she died . So I dont think that breeding convicts would work for me. I was thinking about bettas but the only thing that is holding me back is that you have to seperate all the fry so they dont fight, but I really would love to breed them. Oh yeah I forgot I am really thinking of breeding angelfish in a 30 us gallons how many can I keep in there with a bala shark? If I can keep them in there with a bala.

 

[bball4life]

ok keep coming with the suggestions and advice!!

 

[OohFeeshy]

What about killies? It might be hard to find a pair in the first place, but they are easy to breed and you can easily sell them or the eggs.

 

[black angel]

mountain minnows are very easy. all you need is a small tank and a pair of minnows, but you have to take the adults out.

 

[simonbrown403]

try apistogrammas

 

[Inchworm]

Hi bball4life

How about raising some Corydoras catfish?

The advantage of raising them is that most independent lfs will be happy to buy them from you. There is always a good demand for these friendly little fish!

 

[bball4life]

Yea I was thinking about corys, but arent they kind of hard to breed? If you have bred them can you give me some info or a link to a site that gives info. Thanks

 

[One_Trick_Pony]

the feb issues of praticle fish keepin had an article in about breeding cories

 

[wrs]

kribensis and convicts are the easiest cichlids to brred as far as I know.