new to breeding looking for some advice

[bloodforblood]

I was wondering if someone could suggest a fairly easy to breed freshwater fish that does not require such a big tank. I would like to try breeding feeders for my red terror and red devil. the red devil has grown a bit since this phote my camera broke.

 

[Spankbelly]

Convict.
Easy easy.
And they grow bigger than guppies.
I ask you, have you ever been satisfied after eating just one guppy?
Nope.

 

[salsa]

I'd say mollies. My cons always survive!

 

[bloodforblood]

yeah I originally had some convicts and he would chase them and fight with them but never eat. I am pretty sure that he would do better with them at his much larger current size

 

[Spankbelly]

I'd say mollies. My cons always survive!

True. I have way too many survivors. And now they are killing each other.
They are not called Convicts for reasons of passivism.
The tank is in front of a window to Crack'vil. So I get to watch two turf wars at once.
There are so many threads on what fish is the biggest and baddest in perfect conditions.
But who is the best low down, drag out, 10 round bare knuckle survivor?
Not just survivor of one fight.
But who can make it on the mean streets of the neglected,diseased, polluted and overpopulated pressure cooker/war zone/social experiment I loosely refer to as my aquarium?
Not just survive another day, but thrive. And push out batch after batch of young hoodlums to tag each other with toothy graffiti?
The undisputed Convict.
The low down dirty Rat of the fish world.
All others are pansies! They so easily fall victim to my incompetence.
But the Cons keep coming back for more. And they bring their own reinforcements.
If ever there was a fish from the wrong side of the tracks, it's this one.
Better just stick with the mollies.

Molly/Convict.
Says it all right there.

 

[zacjeff]

Spankbelly, you should be an author.
Cherry barbs are easy, you just need two tanks. One regular 10 for, maybe, 5-7 adults. Another 10 with no filtration, just a light, substrate optional, with a huge mat of java moss on the bottom. You might put an airstone in there while the parents are in. Condition the adults on nothing more that regular flake food, plop a full female and a bright red male in right before the lights go off, remove the parents in the morning, and feed the smallest granual food you can find at you LFS when you see the fry hit half an inch. They will feed of the bugs in the moss until that point.

 

[Spankbelly]

Spankbelly, you should be an author.

Well thanks. Most people just tell me to shut up.
Um, yeah. For real. I get that allot. That's all I remember my mom yelling "Shut up Spankbelly! Shut up!"
Crazy wacko. Who names their kid Spankbelly?

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

I wouldn't go with mollies, they won't grow fast and big enough to be feeders for such large fish.

 

[Spankbelly]

Yeah, I've never even been able to keep mollies alive at all. Let alone breed for food.
Maybe try a can of tuna.

 

[CichofitAll]

True. I have way too many survivors. And now they are killing each other.
They are not called Convicts for reasons of passivism.
The tank is in front of a window to Crack'vil. So I get to watch two turf wars at once.
There are so many threads on what fish is the biggest and baddest in perfect conditions.
But who is the best low down, drag out, 10 round bare knuckle survivor?
Not just survivor of one fight.
But who can make it on the mean streets of the neglected,diseased, polluted and overpopulated pressure cooker/war zone/social experiment I loosely refer to as my aquarium?
Not just survive another day, but thrive. And push out batch after batch of young hoodlums to tag each other with toothy graffiti?
The undisputed Convict.
The low down dirty Rat of the fish world.
All others are pansies! They so easily fall victim to my incompetence.
But the Cons keep coming back for more. And they bring their own reinforcements.
If ever there was a fish from the wrong side of the tracks, it's this one.
Better just stick with the mollies.

Molly/Convict.
Says it all right there.

Dude I laughd so hard I couldn't breathe. Classic!