I'm about to get a 55 gallon tank set up. Is it possible to breed Molly's, convicts, or another feeder fish, and also raise them in the same tank??? If so witch ones would be the best choice. I've never done this before
I'm about to get a 55 gallon tank set up. Is it possible to breed Molly's, convicts, or another feeder fish, and also raise them in the same tank??? If so witch ones would be the best choice. I've never done this before
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You can breed them and raise them in the same aquarium but after a couple generations from the same group there will be weaker genes and deformed fish.
No if the fry grow up and start to breed with the parents or each other the same strain will become weaker and start to produce fish that will easily become sick and some will become deformed. I suggest switching up with a different male or female from different stock after a few times of the same pair.So if I was to put a divider up and separate young from parent, are you saying that after awhile the original parents will produce deformed fish? Initially having to buy more adults every so often for breeding?
I've bred guppies as feeders for some of my smaller cichlids, but they didnt breed enough for it to be a readily available food source. I just had a 30 gallon bin with a bunch of Java moss and plants in it and a sponge filter. A payara is a much larger fish that will eat more than what I had (for me it was a small pike cichlid, compressiceps in a 29 while in college), you'd probably be better off just buying/catching fish and just quaranting them for a month or so. Or just convert your payara to frozen food and not have to worry about this.Do you think it would be do able then to have a divider in a 55 and move the parents after they produce fry to the other side? If not ideally what would the set up look like?
Has anybody else tried breeding feeders to supply their own fish and how was it set up?