Im not familiar with kribs. Is a pair able to live and breed in a 10 gal? Approx, how many fry do they produce and how often? Are they difficult to bred at all? And what kinda size do they get? I need something pretty good sized for it to matter to my fish. If its too small its not gonna help me much.
In the long run it would be way cheaper and easier to train the fish onto frozen food. The food you have to feed the feeder fish will likely cost more than just buying feeders.
I have tried several live bearers and they allways had fry but several of them got eaten buy the mom and or others in the tank. Live bearers are alot of work compared to say cons. With live bearers you have to remove the preganant female and then let her have the fry and then remove her and then give special care to the fry to get the most out of them. After several attempts of timing the birth of guppies and molly's and spending hours chasing microscopic fry around all over the tank trying to get them out before they were eaten. I have since moved on to cons and basically you just let them do there thing and you get fry. The only time you have to provide special care is when the next batch of eggs is layed and then the need to be removed. But by that time they will be around 3/4'' and alot easier to catch. The only thing about your plan is you need more tanks. one for parents and maybe 2 for fry. so a hatch can growout in a tank and then be used for feeders when the next hatch goes in the other tank.
In the long run it would be way cheaper and easier to train the fish onto frozen food. The food you have to feed the feeder fish will likely cost more than just buying feeders.
Yeah I know, I thought about this, it would probably be more money to raise feeders verse buying them. But partially the reason I wanan do this is cause goldfish arent good food for fish.
But training my fish to accept other food (non-live), is something I wanna do. I just dont think its time for this yet. Its still a juvie and very picky. Feeding feeders is not something I wanna do for life, its just soemthing for meanwhile, but I want something better than gold fish.
To answer the other posters question, the fish that will eat these feeders is a Chinese Perch. Plus maybe even my BGK might like soem of them.
