Easy Feeders To Breed?
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guppy feeders are easy. they take a month to breed the first time, but can get caught multiple times by males, so after the first month can continue to have offspring almost weekly if allowed. plus, if you have a larger female you can get about 40 fry at a time.
livebearers dont have that many babbies
theyre gestation period is like every mounth
and they have very tiny babbies
it would take a few mounths for the babbies to grow
my convicts breed fast and theyre babbies grew quickly
after a mounth they should be breeding very well
theyre gestation period is like every mounth
and they have very tiny babbies
it would take a few mounths for the babbies to grow
my convicts breed fast and theyre babbies grew quickly
after a mounth they should be breeding very well
my guppy had a group of 40, and two weeks later a group of twenty more [they can get pregnant multiple times at once]
when kept in a decent sized tank and fed well they grow relatively quickly. molly fry are larger, and just as easy
but if you are looking for something quicker and larger cons are good.
when kept in a decent sized tank and fed well they grow relatively quickly. molly fry are larger, and just as easy
but if you are looking for something quicker and larger cons are good.
If you want sheer volume, you might want to consider some of the barbs.. like Odyessa barbs, rosey barbs, etc. Get a species where the males and females are differently colored, so you can keep them seperate (when you fatten them up for breeding)
A 20 long with egg crate in the bottom, put the males and females in together, remove after 24 hours. You get a lot of fry. Sure, it's a PITA to raise them up, but you can get a lot of volume this way, from maybe 6-8 starting fish. Once you get them eating flake (pretty quick) and move them to a large growout tank, they grow pretty quick.
Blue Gourami might also be a good idea. They can lay like 10,000 eggs at once (IIRC). Again, it's a pain to raise the fry to flake eating size, but that's a lot of fry from one mating.
A 20 long with egg crate in the bottom, put the males and females in together, remove after 24 hours. You get a lot of fry. Sure, it's a PITA to raise them up, but you can get a lot of volume this way, from maybe 6-8 starting fish. Once you get them eating flake (pretty quick) and move them to a large growout tank, they grow pretty quick.
Blue Gourami might also be a good idea. They can lay like 10,000 eggs at once (IIRC). Again, it's a pain to raise the fry to flake eating size, but that's a lot of fry from one mating.
Not sure where you heard this but it is untrue. Livebearers wont have multiple clutches brooding at once. Neither is it common to have 40 fry from one female guppy, at least not early on. Guppy females can have multiple clutches from one insemination as they can store milt but there will always be 25- 30 days between broods.
If you want something that can fit into a smaller tank and has lots of decent sized, fast growing fry, try convicts or a convict hybrid. They're easier to keep than guppies and have way way way more babies. If you have a larger tank, red devils, oscars, or a number of other larger south americans are very very easy to keep and have massive spawns often numbering in the thousands. You just need the right size tank for those.
At any rate, for feeders, your best bet is a south american cichlid (includes central americans etc Im just not being that specific)
Bethany;1975659; said:
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The gestation period of guppies is approximately 28 days. While it is true that females are able to store sperm and fertilize another brood of babies, the second brood's development does not start until the previous brood has been given birth to.
For feeders, I'd recommend convicts. It does depend on how many fish you are feeding and at what rate though.