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I am trying to establish a feeder tank where I can breed rosey reds or Guppies to feed to my piranha. Anyone have any expierence in this area of breeding feeder fish?
piranha45
09-21-2005, 4:12 PM
I have experience with that. It's completely utterly hopeless unless you designate several multi-hundred-gallon containers to the cause.
30 guppy fry take about6 months to go from newborn to 1". 30 1" guppies offer about 2 days of feeding. Think about all the money time and effort you'll be putting into the tank-- waterchanges, feeding, electricity, etc.-- to get those 30 guppy fry to 1". All for 2 days' worth of feeding.
It's cute in theory, but its not practical unless done on a very large scale.
Arowana Hunter
09-21-2005, 4:33 PM
I breed Brine Shrimp. Its quite easy........ you take a male brine shrimp and put it into the rectum of a female brine shrimp. after this brocess in 2 to 100 months three thousand brine shrimp will inhabit your tank. I use the brine shrimp as seasoning on top of my arowana meal.......aslo called Aro Ala Mode.
It's so much easier to breed flowerhorns. The problem is finding cheap ones at breeding age, and they don't need to be big. At 4inches, the flowerhorns will breed. Separate the frys after hatching and feed them powdered Colorbits, in a 10 gallon tank. Then at 1 to 2" size, put them into a 30 gallon tank. They should be ready for slaughter. The flowerhorns will breed at 82 degree water in a 60 gallon to 100 gallon tank. Put some driftwood and flowerpots in it.
bluedempsey
09-21-2005, 6:22 PM
It's so much easier to breed flowerhorns. The problem is finding cheap ones at breeding age, and they don't need to be big. At 4inches, the flowerhorns will breed. Separate the frys after hatching and feed them powdered Colorbits, in a 10 gallon tank. Then at 1 to 2" size, put them into a 30 gallon tank. They should be ready for slaughter. The flowerhorns will breed at 82 degree water in a 60 gallon to 100 gallon tank. Put some driftwood and flowerpots in it.
what do you know!
i do the same thing but with barred midas!
it's a small world :thumbsup:
what do you know!
i do the same thing but with barred midas!
it's a small world :thumbsup:
i breed convicts, there extreemly easy!
bluedempsey
09-21-2005, 8:47 PM
i have never ever bred convicts :(
Vince
09-22-2005, 12:42 AM
hahaha...
I couldn't breed convicts either!
:lol2:
aroman
09-22-2005, 4:23 AM
so thats mean for guppy tomature take 6 month , wah lot of time any shortcut or secret ?
yourmylunch
09-22-2005, 10:00 AM
depending on where you are located you could put a kiddie pool outside and breed them there. but i breed my own feeders and it takes more gallons of water for them than for all 9 of my display tanks and they only feed about 4 of my fish. go to the lake and catch some or buy them at the bait shop if there is no lfs that sells good feeders. make sure to quarentine them for a while first. but convicts are a better bet than guppies
I have never bred rosie reds but I agree that trying to breed enough guppies to feed a tank full of fish is not cost effective, they are much cheaper just to buy.
I don't know about the weather down in Atlantis but in many parts of the surface world an old claw foot tub full of floating plants and elodea works as a nice decoration for your garden or porch and will produce enough guppies or gambusia to make nice snacks for your piranhas and doesn't take much effort.