Breeding a Catfish in a 29G

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Kolton13

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So I plan on turning my whole room into a catfish room, in my 10g I need suggestions (temporarily) I have a Spotted raphael catfish, that I may either move into my 75g or 29g eventually because I plan on putting 10 corys, 6 pictus, 5 upsidedown cats, and 5 bumblebee and 3 cuckato catfish in my 75 and maybe the raphael cat, I was also thinking of putting him i the 29g but I want to breed a catfish in there I think.

Here's what I need help with:

my 10g stocking when the raphael cat moves

What catfish can I breed in my 75g?
 
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Kolton13 said:
So I plan on turning my whole room into a catfish room, in my 10g I need suggestions (temporarily) I have a Spotted raphael catfish, that I may either move into my 75g or 29g eventually because I plan on putting 10 corys, 6 pictus, 5 upsidedown cats, and 5 bumblebee and 3 cuckato catfish in my 75 and maybe the raphael cat, I was also thinking of putting him i the 29g but I want to breed a catfish in there I think.

Here's what I need help with:

my 10g stocking when the raphael cat moves

What catfish can I breed in my 75g?
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Your Corydoras will have a very difficult time getting food.
 
Im thinking of doing a mix of floating and sinking pellets, they should be able to get some food (Not to sound rude) and occasionally ill give fresh tilapia
 
Corys breed quick in a good environment I started with three in a fifty (lots of inbreeding later) ended up with around forty which I shunted off to my other aquariums.
 
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The corys should be fine in the 29g by themselves and should be able to breed. The rapheal and pictus would need to be in the 75g along with the cuckato cats, you should be able to get the pictus to breed if provided with enough caves. I would have the 5 upside down cats and the 5 bumble bee cats in the 10g and again if provided with enough caves you should be able to get the bb cats to breed, the bb's also love leaf litter at the bottom of the tank and with the ud's I would use pvc pipe cut in half so they have something to hide under and possibly lay eggs on.
 
Kolton13 said:
So 5 upside down cats and 5 bb cats in a 10g would be ok?
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They should be as long as you have a nice strong filter, anything that can filter 20-30 gallons should do just fine for the bioload.

The main key is hiding places for everything and strong filtration and everything should be fine. Granted you'll need separate tanks to move fry into but that's the same for all the fish that end up breeding regardless of tank size. If you find a few 40g breeder tanks I would use those as grow out tanks for the fry and have nothing else in them. Cannibalism is going to be one of the worst problems you'll face so it's always best to have somewhere for the fry to go to rather then staying with the parents/tank mates.
 
I have 2 filter hooked to it rn, a 10 and 5 gallon aqueon filter
 
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