Setting up a continuous breeding tank

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Ok I need some help , I'm very tired of fighting ich and other disease brought home by LFS feeder fish I have a 35 gallon octagon tank that I use to hold the feeders along with some permanent decorative goldfish that were bought for feeding but grew to large I have beat ich twice but this last round has taken 2 of my permanent fish , my question is if I were to use hippies or mollies could it be possible to setup the octagon in a sufficient way as to not have to seperate the fry and allow them to get to a good size to use as feeders or is there another prolific breeder I can stock that will not kill all its fry?
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you will have the permanent fish (goldfish) in with the guppies? I would be worried about them eating your fry. I have never owned a larger goldfish but I have herd the rule of "if its small enough to fit in its mouth it will be eaten" applies to them. Also providing plants for the fry increases survival rate.
 
If you are concerned about problems from feeding feeders....Why don't you switch your fish to prepared foods? It won't really be cost effective or quick for you to breed and grow out feeders in a 35 gallon in quantities to sustain as a true "food" source. I assume you are feeding Oscars (by your profile name & avatar).. Oscars don't require live food...there are soooo many good prepared foods that provide a much more balanced diet for them and they are extremely easy to get switched off live food. Just my 2¢.
 
Mr.Manaconda said:
If you are concerned about problems from feeding feeders....Why don't you switch your fish to prepared foods? It won't really be cost effective or quick for you to breed and grow out feeders in a 35 gallon in quantities to sustain as a true "food" source. I assume you are feeding Oscars (by your profile name & avatar).. Oscars don't require live food...there are soooo many good prepared foods that provide a much more balanced diet for them and they are extremely easy to get switched off live food. Just my 2¢.
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I feed my Oscars and my bullhead a variety of foods Oscar grow floating and sinking pellets as well as shrimp pellets freeze dried blood worms but they seem to enjoy eating live fish more then the rest , I don't use feeders only that is why I thought breeding something would be safer and if they don't grow out quickly it would not be a problem. Also the 2 larger goldfish will be moving to an outside pond this spring.

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I think if you just have the guppies in the tank and provide lots of fake plants (or real) you should be ok. don't have any experience with Mollies so am not sure about them

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My suggestion would be mollys. My experience is they are a little tougher and they get larger. I eoul wouldd also get a self cloning marbled crawdad. I have two and get about 30 babies from each batch. They have a batch about every 3 months and grow to an inch in about 2 months. That way you have a second food growing on the bottom.

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rodger said:
My suggestion would be mollys. My experience is they are a little tougher and they get larger. I eoul wouldd also get a self cloning marbled crawdad. I have two and get about 30 babies from each batch. They have a batch about every 3 months and grow to an inch in about 2 months. That way you have a second food growing on the bottom.

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Mollies were my fist choice and I have had native crawdads before enjoyed having them they grew big fast. I will do some research on the marble crawfish thank you for the suggestion

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dogofwar said:
Culture red wiggler worms. Easy, inexpensive, nutritious, safe, self-propagating...

Matt
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Defiantly will do that since I'm an avid catfishermen we collect and cultivate large river night crawls which are often found in river bottom dirt right next to red wigglers and are bred and cultivated in the exact same conditions as the big nighties that's a wonderful protein filled food source cheap and easy thank you

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