I've decided that my Common Snapping turtle is getting an upgrade to a stock tank soon. With this I've decided to start breeding feeders for him, not as a main source of food but more out of interest. The trouble I have is in deciding what to breed.
I know the most common fish to breed are the live bearers and Convicts. I feel like breeding convicts would be to much work for what it's worth from what I hear and I'm probably going to throw platies in his stock tank and it's going to take him long enough to catch them that they'll probably have bred by then.
Shrimp are another option I've thought about but the only kind I can think about are the cherry reds and they are already on the small side for him. I don't know if there are any other species of shrimp that get much larger that are easy to breed.
Snail are something else I've thought about. I don't know if it would be worth it thought because last time I threw snails in with him, it was three apple snails and it took him three weeks to eat them all.
Another thought are crayfish. Crayfish are probably his favorite food other than mice(which I'm not doing, I've already done that for my snakes, so not worth it) so he'd love that. The marmorkrebs seem like they would be the easiest. However Procambarus and cherax get large enough where they can be used for human consumption and I could use any of these crays as fishing bait as well. Plus procambarus come in a bunch of interesting color phases would would add some interst to a project. I here breeding crayfish can be a pain though because they eat each other.
So I'm some what at odds about what's worth doing or not. I'm also throwing the idea of doing an aquaponics system and whatever I choose to breed best are I would be doing in the system. Any thought on this would be great! Thanks in advance.
I know the most common fish to breed are the live bearers and Convicts. I feel like breeding convicts would be to much work for what it's worth from what I hear and I'm probably going to throw platies in his stock tank and it's going to take him long enough to catch them that they'll probably have bred by then.
Shrimp are another option I've thought about but the only kind I can think about are the cherry reds and they are already on the small side for him. I don't know if there are any other species of shrimp that get much larger that are easy to breed.
Snail are something else I've thought about. I don't know if it would be worth it thought because last time I threw snails in with him, it was three apple snails and it took him three weeks to eat them all.
Another thought are crayfish. Crayfish are probably his favorite food other than mice(which I'm not doing, I've already done that for my snakes, so not worth it) so he'd love that. The marmorkrebs seem like they would be the easiest. However Procambarus and cherax get large enough where they can be used for human consumption and I could use any of these crays as fishing bait as well. Plus procambarus come in a bunch of interesting color phases would would add some interst to a project. I here breeding crayfish can be a pain though because they eat each other.
So I'm some what at odds about what's worth doing or not. I'm also throwing the idea of doing an aquaponics system and whatever I choose to breed best are I would be doing in the system. Any thought on this would be great! Thanks in advance.
At least that way if your snapper decides he doesn't like poultry (lol, like that'd happen) you've got some fryers and fresh eggs. Worst case, most people raising them aren't against giving away excess males. 