100 gallon feeder tank suggestions

MrBlueDream said:

So I am going to setup a 100 gallon to supply feeders for 1 bichir that refuses non swimming food. Bichir will be in different tank.

What fish would breed quickly and lots of it?

Should it contain hiding places for newborn fish?

It will be canister filtered and heated, with lights.

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Have you tried tilapia? My Bircher didn't even starve a day before he took pellets.


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MrBlueDream said:

You mean pieces of tilapia? Haven't tried, it will not take any sort of dead food it seems.

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Tilapia fillets from the super market work great when cut into smaller pices.


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Have you tried krill?

Convict or rainbow cichlids should breed lots for you. Breed them in a separate tank, once the fry are free swimming, put them in a bigger tank with loads of sponge filters, and a prefilter on the canister.

My 40B tank is breeding cherry shrimp pretty quick. With a bunch of sponge filters in it, some java moss and driftwood, rainbow cichlid fry are doing great after pulling them from the parents once they're swimming. I probably have 100 1/2" rainbows from a single spawn.... and the parents breed like clockwork. I've been putting any old fish food in a coffee grinder to make fry foods.

-Ryan

Why don't you fast your bichir so he takes prepped foods? I had to starve my delhezi for 1.5 weeks before he took silversides and tilapia. They will break and take frozen/pellets, just takes patience and the will to not break down because you think youre killing your fish.

Idk about bichirs, but Gambusia and Guppies are both very fast to reproduce.