:/ wat kind of breeders

[triniyute]

ok i have some oscars i want to have feeders as we all kno feeders have diseases wen purchased from pet shops.
so i have 2 twenty five gallon tanks ( barrel cut in half) and a 2 four gallon and a 5 gallon.( for fry if necessary)
i have some dalmation mollies and reg. mollies in a bath tub.
but i was wondering for a beginner breeder what kind of fish should i get i have bred live bearers before but find them boring and not enough off spring so i was thinking of putting one tank with lots of mollies (20) a canister filter (sponge so it won't suck fry) and lots of a plant that is locally called "pond weed" floating type thing. and feed them daily.
but what egg layers would be good for the other 25 gal. im thinking convicts (which i can acquire locally) maybe 6 juvies until they pair off. any other ideas im open to anything easy that makes lots of babies that grow relatively quickly.
ill eventually tell everybody what i can acquire and wat i cannot (i live in trinidad) so has to be warm water
??????????
if u think best ill put egglayers in both or live bearers in both ( i'd rather do live and egg) more fun

 

[Bearbear]

Go with convicts.
Just find two healthy fish, cons are easy to differentiate the sexes and are not real picky when finding a partner.
The reason most people get a batch and grow them out is because a lot of fish are harder to tell the sexes apart until they grow larger or start to spawn together.

 

[triniyute]

ok thanks and u wud go with cons for both 25's ?
and how do i tell male from female ??
i also heard that cons grow pretty slow anybody?

 

[importracer]

ok i have some oscars i want to have feeders as we all kno feeders have diseases wen purchased from pet shops.
so i have 2 twenty five gallon tanks ( barrel cut in half) and a 2 four gallon and a 5 gallon.( for fry if necessary)
i have some dalmation mollies and reg. mollies in a bath tub.
but i was wondering for a beginner breeder what kind of fish should i get i have bred live bearers before but find them boring and not enough off spring so i was thinking of putting one tank with lots of mollies (20) a canister filter (sponge so it won't suck fry) and lots of a plant that is locally called "pond weed" floating type thing. and feed them daily.
but what egg layers would be good for the other 25 gal. im thinking convicts (which i can acquire locally) maybe 6 juvies until they pair off. any other ideas im open to anything easy that makes lots of babies that grow relatively quickly.
ill eventually tell everybody what i can acquire and wat i cannot (i live in trinidad) so has to be warm water
??????????
if u think best ill put egglayers in both or live bearers in both ( i'd rather do live and egg) more fun

Convict cichlids easily pair off...Partition the tank into three divided sections.........Put a male and female in each part.....I gaurantee there will be eggs from two out of the three couples within one month..........Convict cichlids lay around 50-300 eggs, depending onsize........Fed exclusively on baby brine shrimp, the fry grow really quickly within a month to half inch..............

 

[triniyute]

ok will do thanks but the "tanks" that im planning on putting them in are two 25 gallon (barrel in half) so that dividers won't work well. ( not cut lengthways) so ill have two circular tanks.
that should be sufficent. right? one pair per tank.
and yea brine shrimp shouldnt be a problem.
and is breeding pike cichlids difficult i am thinking of accquiring some. just an after thought another endevour