I have taken much thought and if I am allowed to I would like to start a small breeding operation late winter or early spring. I want to start this small and if it works out grow big. So far what I came up with is this 1-20Gal Planted tank Platy 3 males 6 females, 2-10gal grow out tank, 1-40gal ram Breeding tank planted caves and rocks, 1-20gal grow out tank. Does this sound okay? Tell me what fish and what tanks are the best to start breeding. The most I would want to spend including fish to get this going is $500-$750.
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personally. i recon you could shave $100 off . say roughly $400. look on craigs list. in the states theres loads of deals on large cheap tanks. so you could start with small fish on a large scale type of stuff . n if it doesnt work out then you have a larger tank for the larger fish for personal use
Personally I think the platys have to be scratched out....Replace the platys with Convict Cichlids......These fish are the basic building block of all central and South American cichlids......Plus, the fry they push out every month is guaranteed to be reach 100-300 strong.......You would want these fish breeding in your feeder project for your bigger fish.......$500-750 sounds alot for a small operation maintaining 10-40g tanks.........For this much, I would invest in at least four 55g tanks and one used 100g........
Well you could get the tanks for $1 per gallon when petco does a sale. Rocks can be bought at any landscape/garden center for pennies a pound. You could get one linear piston air pump for $100 and run bubbler type filters like most breeders do. You are looking at no more than $50 for the fish. You need heaters? that's a couple hundre for new.
I appreciate the help,I really do. I know this all depends on me, but can somebody just give a brief out line on how many tanks, what size tanks, and what the would be used to either breed or grow out. I thought this over a little more and I would at the most want to start with 6-8 tanks and spend no more than $500(Hopefully less) if possible. I am looking to breed fish such as Chiclids, Pleco's,livbearers, and possible Dwarf pufferfish( I know they don't go for more than $15 a piece, but they are hard to find and I would like to help the local fish stores with stocking them).
Thanks in advance,
Matt
Thanks in advance,
Matt
yu could breed dwarf cichlids. (kribensis, rams) to start with .i dont think dwarf puffer have ever bred in captivity. if yu go on to craigslist or aquarist classifieds , they allways have people shutting down there tanks and selling off there stock. just take a look
If you go with the rams, try to get wild caught columbian or wild caught bolivian. Don't go with german blue rams and what not, which can be succesful but are generally terrible parents, fight, eat the eggs/fry, often sterile. The breeding gene in GBRs and EBRs have litterally been bread out of them, so really try for a wild caught strain. Also if they are fry from wild caught rams, they have more appeal and should sell better/easier. Goodluck!
Totally just go with what feels best and evolve from there, just dont expect to get money for your fish and you may find yourself asking people to take them for free thru kijiji/craigs list. Theres always ways of doing things cheap(and correct) at the same time....