I was just wondering if anyone has ever raised rosy reds for feeders. I just want to find as much info as I can on them, especially on how easily or difficult it is to get them to breed. If I'm not mistaken they are just a color varient of the fathead minnow. right?
anobody raise rosy reds?
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Yeah they are a color varien't of the flathead minnow. I haven't bred them in a tank, but my uncle puts them in his Koi pond and they breed every other two weeks, and he gets tons of fry from them. I believe they are egg scatterers and I am sure that the paren'ts eat the eggs like most other fish. I am sure it can be done in the aquarium, but I just haven't tried. That and I can just get them from my uncle.
Yup, they are fatheads. I wrote an article about breeding them. It's somewhere on this site, a few pages back I think. I'm too lazy to look for it here so I'll get it off another site where it is part of the articles section.
Here is it.
http://oscarfish.com/cms_view_article.php?aid=568
Here is it.
http://oscarfish.com/cms_view_article.php?aid=568
yea they are a variation of fatheads..ive never bred them either but i hear therye pretty easy though
take a look at sandtigers articale on them.Well that explains why i didnt have much luck breeding them the first time i tried. i failed to check into the breeding biology and offer caves. I took a guess that they scattered eggs so i set them up to do so...and they didnt 
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Well now i'll have to try again, the first time i tried i just went to the bait shop and picked up four dozen and pulled out six males and 12 females and hoped for the best. The rest got the stock tank treatment until needed for stubborn preds and small water snakes.
How many females have you seen nest with a male? Would it be possible to get four or five to deposit before removing the cave to a hatching/growout tank?
Just wondering since i've never bred anything native before, just the bread and butter tropicals and some cichlids.
Jason
PS these might be a fun replacement to watching danio school around for ages and do nothing of use between breedings other than fatten up and give me something to watch in my hospital/quarentine tank.
.Well now i'll have to try again, the first time i tried i just went to the bait shop and picked up four dozen and pulled out six males and 12 females and hoped for the best. The rest got the stock tank treatment until needed for stubborn preds and small water snakes.
How many females have you seen nest with a male? Would it be possible to get four or five to deposit before removing the cave to a hatching/growout tank?
Just wondering since i've never bred anything native before, just the bread and butter tropicals and some cichlids.
Jason
PS these might be a fun replacement to watching danio school around for ages and do nothing of use between breedings other than fatten up and give me something to watch in my hospital/quarentine tank.