Easiest feeder fish to breed?

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rumblesushi

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I need to breed some feeders for my hoplias, which are the easiest to breed?

I hear guppies are easy, but they're tiny, how about platys? I hear young platys grow fast.

Any other tips for breeding? Other than say 2 females for each male?
 
Swordtail, mollys, platys and other live bearers are really easy to breed, the three I mentioned all grow larger then guppys. Convict cichlids are really easy to breed but slow growers. There are also cyprinid species like fathead minnows and White Cloud Mountain minnows but I dunno how fast they grow and WCMM are pretty small.
 
mollies are notoriously good for net chewing up their offspring... add a lil salt to their tank (SG about 1.010-1.015) and watch them go at it...
 
I stuck about 3 dozen goat shrimp in a 2 gallon, and forgot about em, and rembered about a week later. and there was little ity biity ****s running around in there, but keep in mind though there was only about 5 shrimps left because I hadnt fed em in a week.
 
Breeding feeders is money down the drain. You have to feed them, which costs quite a bit in of itself... by the time that you're done growing them out to a feeding-ready size, they'll have costed a lot more than the 10 cents that they cost at a lfs. Granted, breeding your own does reduce the risk of parasites, but almost all baitshops have very safe feeder fish, and they're usually a good size for decently size preds. Also, some commercial sites offer large amounts of fish for different reasons, including pond stocking, and they're generally pretty safe too. That being said, if you do chose to breed your own feeders, I would go with mollies.
 
Only thing that sucks is some states don't have live bait shops except for worms. I know Washington bugged the hell outa me cuz all i could get was worms! No live bait! Annoying! Nebraska, i can get crayfish, newts, tadpoles, fish, leeches, earth worms, frogs, you name it...lol.
 
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