Breeding for fish food, heres my situation

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
Jewels also breed frequently and stay small, my female is over 2 years old and maybe 4.5" TL, the male is about a half inch longer. I don't know how much your LFS sells 10 gallon tanks for, but where I work they are 10 bucks, check craigslist I've found lots of free tanks there. for filtration you can run 2 sponge filters off say a Whisper 60 air pump, which run like 20 some bucks at walmart. The fry growouts won't need more than the sponge filter. And if you can't find any cheap or free tanks you could use rubbermaid tubs to grow out/hold the fry.
 
I have bread several types of fish, Convects, Jack Dempsey, Snakeheads, discus, Angles, Christmas fulus and Kribensis just to name a few. If you want to breed any fish in quantity and good size you will need multiple tanks. Kribs will easily breed in a 10 gallon but you need at least 2 other tanks to raise the fry. Here is a picture of my Christmas fulu breeding setup. The fish breed in the 50 gallon and the fry are raised in one of three 30 gallon tanks. I have about 1 spawn a month of about 35 fry and it takes a few months to grow them out. Also if you want your fry to grow fast you will need to hatch brine shrimp. You could raise Convects or Kribs in smaller tanks but you still need multiple tanks to grow out the fry any quanity.
Your best bet for breeding in a single tank is probabily to breed Cherry red shrimp or some other easily breed shrimp.

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Red cherries are supposed to be easy to breed and do not eat their young.

I also heard marbled crayfish are super easy to breed (clone)too!.

It's just they are not readily available... and no one know were they come from (a leaked genetic project?)
 
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