NEW 10G BREEDING TANK SETUP

[Deep Blue Sea]

Ive got a whole bunch of tanks for the fry

 

[alfred14]

Great job releasing an aquarium fish that could have been harboring a disease (which is likely if you just bought from a lfs) and introduced it into your local natives.

i have a question pertaining to releasing fish to the wild. so if i have a 135 gallon, its completely dry. i filled it with water and caught 2 texas cichlids about 15 Mexican tetras and 1 tilapia. all caught from a stream close to me. if i were to bread the fish for a generation or two could i then later release the parents or what not back to there original water? i use no chemicals, the only thing i put in the tank that they would not naturally come by in there stream is the fish food. i don't want to do anything harmful, i would however like to be able to put back what i took (or at least the equivalent number of what i took)

 

[oscaroo]

i have a question pertaining to releasing fish to the wild. so if i have a 135 gallon, its completely dry. i filled it with water and caught 2 texas cichlids about 15 Mexican tetras and 1 tilapia. all caught from a stream close to me. if i were to bread the fish for a generation or two could i then later release the parents or what not back to there original water? i use no chemicals, the only thing i put in the tank that they would not naturally come by in there stream is the fish food. i don't want to do anything harmful, i would however like to be able to put back what i took (or at least the equivalent number of what i took)

Don't releas them. They could have sicknesses...

 

[Skittle]

Yes aquarium fish being released into wild has a huge impact on that ecosystem and native species. I understand its only one guppy, but next time you go to the lfs and buy a fish, your reaction will always be "if i dont like it/ grows too big/dont get along with my tankmates ill release it" . It cant hapen. Its only a guppy, then a barb, then oscar, whatever it cant happen, itl harm our ecosystems.


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[alfred14]

even though it is a whol tank of wild caught fish from the same body of water and they would go right back to the same body of water. i dont get it? its like im releaseing it back where it came from and its only came into contact with the exact same things it would come into contact if i had never crossed its path? please explain.

 

[Shenanigans]

In my experience keeping natives, simple aquarium diseases can have much more severe impacts. When my native tank became infected with ick from feeder goldfish(never use feeders) ALL of my smallmouth bass were wiped out dead in less than 3 days. I have never lost an aquarium fish that quickly or had that high of a mortality rate as I did with native fish and ick.

One fish with a disease rarely seen in the wild can criple a thriving ecosystem.