thinking bout setting up a breeding tank

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so im thinking bout getting a tank for just breeding fish, now what size of tank would be good ? can i get away with a 30g something 30-32" long by 12" wide 18" tall ? the desk/dresser it going to sit on is 31" or so long so it gotta be within that length to sit on the dresser... also should i have anything for substrate ? anything for babies to hide in ? basically i wanna toss in like 10 fish, and then like a month later see 100 lol i want to have something that i can leave the babies in and let it take it natural corase i dont wanna have to tend to baby fish and worry about the filter sucking em up or other bigger fish eating them and such i want the most easiest and most effective setup....

im wanting to breed fish for some live treats for kids or company to get a kick outta watching my arowana's, peacock bass, florida gar and bichir eat em up :)
 
I think you might want to get some african cichlids, Neolamprologus Brichardi and Neolamprologus Multifasciatus are self populating fish and the first spawn of babies will even help raise the second spawn lol its amazing.
 
Ya I also thought about guppies as well they would work alright till my pbass, aro, bichir, gar are about 8" lol... Then I'd want something that would grow couple inchs long to feed to the monsters as they grow.... I actually bought 12 guppies for feeders on the weekend and couple of em musta been prego I have 8 babies swimming around in the tank now but I do find that feeder guppies and goldfish, and rosey red don't last long in a tank when ya buy them as "feeders" from the store they usually die off after a week...
 
Buy regular guppies not the feeders. They would be more healthy and less likely to carry diseases. As your fish grow upgrade to convicts.


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Well my pbass are 6" and my aro is 4" and the gar is about 6" and the bichir is 11" ... So I maybe almost be better to just buy like 20 convicts and let em breed like the dirty SOB's they are lol
 
Maybe but not in a single 29 that will cause major health issues. Try a pair or two. You gotta remember unlike guppies that only produce a small number of fry with each pregnancy, convicts will have hundreds of fry in a single batch.


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ya hoping to score a 30g tank with everything needed, and then maybe start getting a bunch of convicts in there and see if they breed.... only thing that worries me is fry getting sucked up into the filter.... i dont wanna have to look and check on them all the time and such i wanna be able to just leave em and let em go at her lol
 
Sponge filters will end that worry. I run sponge filters on my fry tanks and now all my tanks. Never lost a fry to em. My baby pleco likes to hide in the tube from my cutteri cichlid fry.


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