Captive breeding of RARE fish ?????????????

[johnptc]

that would be awesome. How are you keeping them all, communally? How do you breed arows?

they are all together range from 12 to 24 inch.

i am still researching... but they do breed in the cooler rainy season. a drop in temp and RO water may be a signal....the was an article some time ago translated from japanese.....

 

[wizzin]

they are all together range from 12 to 24 inch.

i am still researching... but they do breed in the cooler rainy season. a drop in temp and RO water may be a signal....the was an article some time ago translated from japanese.....

John, did you see this post: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71296

Spawning at about 3 years of age in December/January.

 

[bjorn]

im trying to breed l204 plecs, got six of them at the moment

dont know if ther rare in the states but theres not heaps in new zealand lol

 

[unknownuza13]

At this stage I have no desire to breed fish. The majority of the fish I own get very large and are kept in community tanks. If I had to set up dedicated breeding tanks for them I would need to vastly increase the amount of tanks I have. At the moment 700 gallons of water is all I can handle.

 

[davo]

im trying to breed l204 plecs, got six of them at the moment

dont know if ther rare in the states but theres not heaps in new zealand lol

no, i can imagine. loach43 (think thats the numbers) is also trying to breed them too.

At this stage I have no desire to breed fish. The majority of the fish I own get very large and are kept in community tanks. If I had to set up dedicated breeding tanks for them I would need to vastly increase the amount of tanks I have. At the moment 700 gallons of water is all I can handle.

this is one of the main problems monster fish keepers would have when it comes to breeding...

 

[Oddball]

I have several 'rare' species in breeding programs (tropical gars, banded scats, FW black porgies, etc). All that's needed now is waiting for them to reach maturity. In the meantime, I'll have to settle on the spawns from a dozen other species (fronts, tropheus, snooks, tilapia, medusa ancistris, sevs, geos, etc.) to occupy the growout tanks/bins.

 

[lemcc]

i only breed stuff i can sell to LFS and their not impressed by rare stuff

i would like to sell to other keepers but in my area bettas are what the people like

oh and not big on shipping fish to much money and risk

 

[santoury]

Oddball - AWESOME going!

Why don't we hear more discussions about our successes and our hopes?

Oddball, what do you do with the fry? I would be interested in tilapia.

 

[need2ball]

You're idea sounds like a good one BUT when you are talking about breeding rare fish... it is not cheap at all. To get a good breeding stock alone is already expensive. If the fish is rare it is not cheap and then to go and buy 6 of them to get a good prospective breeding group is expensive.

Also, a lot of times the fish is rare because it has a difficult time breeding for one reason or another.

So to answer your question... because it is expensive and difficult.

BUT if you wanna buy me a stock of rare fish to try I'd be more then happy to try

 

[santoury]

need2ball - that is true, but nobody is even breeding the "cheap" rare ones such as Osphronemus, various knifefishes, and they don't even need to be rare, just not bred regularly, or even at all.
Thank you, but I am buying MYSELF stock of rare fish for breeding:
To date: Osphronemus goramy, O. laticlivus, Protopterus annectens, and probably am going to buy up a group of Gymnotus pedanopterus.

What about you? lol