What fish do you consider "feeders"?

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

would you breed the substrate spawners like Tilapia maria or one of the mouthbrooders?

 

[mcox3]

We have the mouth brooders

 

[Pharaoh]

I owuld try the tilapia, but I don't see them very often in my area.

 

[mcox3]

I owuld try the tilapia, but I don't see them very often in my area.

Yeah this was a impulse buy. We were at Pets Inc, in Tempe, and they said AZ Game and Fish had dropped off about 800 and they were selling them for 50 cents each. So we bought 20 of them.

They're really not that bad looking either.

 

[Pharaoh]

I guess there's always mosquito fish too. You canget those for free from DNR and they breed in ditches!

 

[ducridah750]

does anyone know where to get tilapia in Socal? I've never really noticed them in fish stores.

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

they might be illegal as they are in Florida. If you want one here, the canal is easily the best bet, although sometimes stores will have one that someone raised and brought back due to its size...also seen them come in with feeder guppy shipments

 

[Pyramid_Party]

Goldfish, Guppies, Live Shrimps

Although there could be frogs, and other small fish, but they would be unintentional.

 

[Pyramid_Party]

does anyone know where to get tilapia in Socal? I've never really noticed them in fish stores.

I only managed to see one type of tilapia in an LFS and it was a buttferkeri or whatever they are called. I heard theyre nasty little guys too.

 

[freshwaterfishing]

I was using convicts for the longest time untill i gave a friend of mine a breeding pair to start off with and one of her delhizies choaked on it and died. That was one gorgus lungfish.