indused breeding

[crazy_cavi]

has anyone with tropical fish ever induced spawning like they do for native fish repopulation?
in plain english i mean squeezing sperm and eggs out
when the fish are at their seasonal peak

 

[beblondie]

You mean stripping the eggs and milt and mixing them right?-Anne

 

[Bud_Man_Jr]

porr fish , but could prob br done

 

[Oddball]

You don't need to strip eggs and milt. The reason hatcheries do this is to consolidate the eggs into controlled hatchers.
Another method of induced breeding is to inject the caudal bases of conditioned spawning adults (meaning females ripe with eggs and males in breeding dress colors) with PMSG (Pregnant Mare Serum Gonadotropin). This hormone "drives" the adult fish into a spawning frenzy with eggs and milt flying everywhere. Once all eggs appear to have been released, the adults are netted out of the spawning tanks and the eggs are aerated as is done with most artificial hatch-outs.

 

[crazy_cavi]

yeah that is what i meant because at all theese tropicl fish hatcheries dont you think it would be more cost effective and productive to do it that way or add the hormones to make all the fish horny. im asking this because after i finish school (uni) with all my extra money i would like to set up a hobby fish farm. first with natives then expeiriment with some tropical sppecies. in my province there are alot of aquaculture grants available because right now all the fish repopulation is done by our provincial fisheries and i beleive there is only one other fish farm that spawns shrimp on a 160 single one acre pools. so its something that would get me excited about my work and i could write off a 10,000 g monster tank

 

[headlessblade]

just turn up the heat lol no need to do all that stuff...although it would be kinda easier to do lol if u fishes live

 

[bmxer4ever]

"after i finish school (uni) with all my extra money i would like to set up a hobby fish farm"

EXTRA money..? Eh? Most people I know, including myself, were in thousands of debt when we finished higher education. How on earth are you gonna have EXTRA money..?!...
Good luck to ya!

 

[Potts050]

Is it more rewarding to breed tropical fish that are themselves good breeders and healthy representatives of their species or better to 'crank em out by the millions" like some agro-industrial complex?

 

[yourmylunch]

it depend on if you are breeding for quality or quantity.