Easiest feeder fish to breed?

[zhuangsw]

As everyone has said, the live bearers are easiest with swords and platys being larger. Zebra and other dianos are also easy but are quite small, even the giant dianos take a while to get big enough to make serious feeders. sunnies breed easily, grow quick, but need a small shallow pond and are seasonal breeders. If you have a small spot of sunny waste ground you can make yourself a small rice paddy and raise a large number of small feeders between late spring and early fall but you will need somewhere to keep them after you harvest. works for guppys, gambusia, zebras, dojo loaches, killies, giesha girls, and glass shrimp all at once.

plus you get to eat free rice once in a while? hehe

 

[wenjun]

guppy,swordtail..
very easy..

 

[pressure]

if you want to try more challenging species....catfish is a good choice.....get the brooders from the market and artifically fertilise them by squeezing the eggs and sperm and mix them for 1 min and put the eggs into a tank/pond with lots of algae/food....you will get millions of catfish feeders in two weeks time...

 

[softturtle]

were do you get these "brooders" at?

 

[dialphantom]

breeding feeders is not worth it to much time money and time

 

[piranha45]

breeding feeders is not worth it to much time money and time

that is true.

 

[hemiboo]

my bettas breed all the time and my oscars eat the babies all the time

 

[wenjun]

if you want to try more challenging species....catfish is a good choice.....get the brooders from the market and artifically fertilise them by squeezing the eggs and sperm and mix them for 1 min and put the eggs into a tank/pond with lots of algae/food....you will get millions of catfish feeders in two weeks time...

wow...never try be4...

but its a good idea.
save alots $ on feeder..

 

[guppy]

If you breed them as an extra they are fun, put them in your sump or in the plant tub, throw them in the pond. A bath tub full of elodea and duck weed out on the back porch with a couple of cheap box filters will produce A LOT of mollies or guppies and maybe even glass shrimp or fairy shrimp for damn near nothing.

 

[rumblesushi]

too much time and money to breed feeders? Maybe not for me, here in the UK a goldfish or swordtail or any feeder sized fish is at least £1.50, which is almost $3.

Shops don't sell dedicated "feeder fish" here, it must be illegal or something, and even crappy little fish are overpriced in LFStores.