Fastest Breeding / Feeder fish?

Ransom

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I plan on geting a 2foot tank something small that i can ideally breed some feeders in
its going to be placed in the cupboard under the stairs with a timer light so they do get some light

but what fish?
what breeds fast and grows fast ?
how many fry / average fish per xx months??

what do other people do,
do you just buy gold fish from the shop or do you breed your own?

Thanks
Ransom
 

Cichlaholics Anonymous

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I don't have fish that I feed fish to anymore, but when I did, I would breed guppies, convicts, and salvini, of whose fries I used as feeders
 

bigjason12

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get a small tank, a crappy little heater and filter, gravel, few plants.. and put a hell as many guppys, platys and mollys in as you can!
Use your own method to save the babys/food ;)
 

bettapits

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agree to put a lot of guppies and platies... they grow fast just feed the fry regularly in 3 weeks you can feed them to your monster...
 

Ransom

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thanks guys sounds easy enough ill just get a small tank an set it up

thx
 

Enoid

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Agreed. Lots of Live bearers, but get lots of fake\real plants with small leaves. Increases Survival rate if you need them to live.
 

cassharper

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Just a note, live bearers are going to take a while to get an initial stock. Their gestation period is about a month (sometimes less, sometimes more), and young live bearers first drops are always less than usual.

After you get an established tank going, though, you will have a constant supply of babies!
 

Alistriwen

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Id go with convicts over livebearers. One pair of convicts can produce 200 or so fry every 2 weeks in a 10 - 20 gallon tank compared to dozens of guppies producing few fry and eating some etc. Cons will raise their young for you and rarely eat fry. With a divider you could house 2 pairs of small cons in that tank and have lots of feeders for your fish.
 
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Enoid

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I worry about that spine the convicts have though...I don't know if it would bother anything or not...But its there. I don't want a 2cent fish killing my $200 fish because of a spine, Right?
 
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