Fastest feeder to breed????

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Today's agenda consisted of starting a worm culture which would partially be used to feed the fish. I have done a lot of google research for feeders...from cherry shrimp, guppies, kribs or convicts and worms seem to be the most prolific and least amount of work. sure, a tub full of dirt and worms isnt the prettiest option, but if you get too attached to your feeders you may end up wanting to keep them.
 
Guppies and other live bearers give birth every 3ish weeks, but the babies take too long to grow. It requires too many tanks to keep them at stages you can cycle through.

Convicts and other cichlids are decent, but if you want to use fish as feeders, I would do some sort of hybrid. Then you get that crazy hybrid growth rate and they grow really fast.

Really, it sounds like the worms might be the best suggestion. They are one type of feeder I've never bred/used but it sounds like a great idea.

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domingos.44 said:
hi i have a 40 gallon set up with a pair of convicts and i get about 40-50 1-1.5 inch fry every month that i use as feeders works well for me. but do guppies produce more or get larger then that in the same period of time?
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Is that in 1 tank or do you use a separate grow out tank
 
I have bred Convicts, guppies, and even cultivated night crawlers. This post has been very interesting, and informative. I'm goin to try Red wiggler worms - Thanks DogOfWar. CoyoteThug I'm intereseted in the mozambique tilapia too, Thanks.
 
Land Shark said:
I have bred Convicts, guppies, and even cultivated night crawlers. This post has been very interesting, and informative. I'm goin to try Red wiggler worms - Thanks DogOfWar. CoyoteThug I'm intereseted in the mozambique tilapia too, Thanks.
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and what was your convict experience like
 
Didn't even think to suggest red wigglers. I cultured them in styro fish boxes for years in the lab next to my classroom. Easy is an understatement. Once you get them going it will feed a lot of fish and take care of your veggie scraps too. I fed mine veggies, oatmeal, bread, bananas and banana peels, apple cores, pretty much anything you could compost.

My garage gets too cold in the winter now that I moved to michigan, guess I am going to have to set one up in the basement.

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mozambique tilapia as stated in an earlier post is probably your best bet. With 1 male and a few female you youd get thousands of frys every month....Easy mouth brooder, if kept in pairs, the pair will take care of their own frys...eats lettuce, zuccinnis, frogbits, duckweeds, trout feed, flakes, almost anything....... frys are so hardy they wont need BBS simply feed frys crush flakes...give them about two months and bam! some good *** feeders that are home grown, pesticide free, parasite free, etc...mozambique tilapia is also good for aquaponics and I have seen these fishes sold for human consumption in some stores..
 
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