How big of tank or cheap thing would i need to keep 100-200+ feeders in? cause im tired of always going to the store and buying like 20 and i just want to keep a ton here
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with good filtration u can do 100 guppies in a 20l or so. well it depense on how fast u go through them. how often are u feeding? what are u feeding? u also have to remeber that having alot of fish in once tank like that if u arent going through them fast enough u mght end up with dead feeders and disease.
heh, at my job they sometimes have over a 1000 small comets in a 33 long. No wonder feeders are usually sick/dying.
I buy 30 dozen at the first of every month and keep them in a 55g. What i get is 2-3'' fat head minnows from a bait shop. I have been doing this for about a year now. I had no problems up until the last batch i got had fin/tail rot. So I ditched the whole batch and let the tank set empty for a week with meds in it. Then did a 90% water change and went and got another batch. I had a few ammonia spikes after that from the meds killing the bio-bacteria but all is well once again. The filtration for this tank is a 10g sump loaded with bio media and the turn over rate is around 45 times an hour with my pump churning 2500gph. It works pretty good and i love not having to run to the lfs all the time to get feeders.
keeping feeder tanks overstocked is just asking for a huge casualty rate, and a source of terrible smell in your house. it would take a pretty big tank to keep enough feeders to keep a population big enough to stay healthy enough to reproduce fast enough to keep up with your feeding schedule (that is a hell of a sentence, grammar can't be right, but you get my point). a tank that big would be wasted on guppies.
pretty big that's my answer. At least a 55 with alot of filtration, if you want me to be more specific.
I could be wrong. my fish all get pellets and frozen/freezedried food. with the occasional eathworm to my O.
pretty big that's my answer. At least a 55 with alot of filtration, if you want me to be more specific.
I could be wrong. my fish all get pellets and frozen/freezedried food. with the occasional eathworm to my O.
I do not think the OP wants to breed them he just wants to maintain a larger quanity. I do not see a reason that we could not handle as many as a lfs could with them same equipment. All the lfs's around me keep there feeders in smaller tanks than I keep mine in. And if i was keeping a oscar i would not think twice about feeding anything else except dead foods.
hybridtheoryd16;2517472; said:
just saying, every time I've seen anyone try to keep a massively overstocked feeder tank, they always end up with more dead than fed, and it stunk to high heaven.
I wouldn't go with anything smaller than a 55. and i'd filter the hell out of it.
but I can think of a lot of fish I'd rather keep in an overfiltered 55 instead of a bunch of guppies or minnows.
just my opinion.