Breeding Feeder fish
- Thread starter Gobrian44
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Any recommendations for keeping them/breeding them?
-I've also heard there spines can be damaging to the predator fish
?True or False?
-I've also heard there spines can be damaging to the predator fish
?True or False?
convicts , guppies, mollies, platys, other cichlids are all really easy to breed. The problem with breeding for feeders is the growth rate. It will take a few months for fry to get to a usable size of around 1''+. And if you breed some and then wait it out for a few months until they are all used up then you get maybe 2 weeks worth of food every 2-3 months. The best way to go about it is to have a breeding set-up of several tanks. Like 5 10g tanks with convict pairs in them. The when all there fry are a week or 2 old transfer them into a 30g tank. And wait a month and then transfer that into a 55g tank and feed from that. So that you have a running amount of feeders. All in all you will find out that it is not worth doing. And return to buying them shortly.
don't know about the others but if you keep mollies in a 1 male to 4 females or greater ratio you will have spawns of 50-100 every week after the intial justation period (typically 1 month) once you've been at this for 3 months you will have 20-50 1.5-2.5" mollies to feed to your other fish every week.
this means you either need several tanks or a larger one as there will be too many of them for a single smaller tank and your feeders will die before you can feed them.
but I assume you'd run into that with most fish.
this means you either need several tanks or a larger one as there will be too many of them for a single smaller tank and your feeders will die before you can feed them.
but I assume you'd run into that with most fish.