I've been thinking about breeding fish and wanted to start with an easy fish, since i don't have any experience doing this. What do I need and what's a good starter fish to breed?
What is a good fish to start breeding?
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Convicts are easy and fun to breed, 29 gallon should be sufficient. Have adequate hiding places and that's about cons it,will breed so long as you have a male and female
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Livebearers, mbuna, cons......just have to make sure you have an outlet for fry. All of the above will basically breed like crazy once comfortable.
go to your local LFS, look at the Mollys and Platys. The ones that have large plump stomachs are most likely already pregnant. Check the under side for a small barb like deal, a different color then its fins that will be a male. The others that look kinda plump are probably close, my most recent fry of Molly literally was born 4 days after i got the fish from the LFS. Just get a breeder box that suctions on the side of your tank, and put the plump looking females in there, if they dont do anything wait a few days, then put em back in for a day, and keep doing this until they fry. The fry will hide in the bottom of the feeder box and can grow to a decent size in it so they wont be eaten by the parents, then you can let em loose with the parents without much worry of the parents eating them, I only started this recently and have had 4 frys so far, breeding them as feeders for my red wolf fish, bichir and peacock bass. Its quite easy with these live bearers. Also they may have a dark spot near where youd imagine baby fish come out of called the gravid spot, another hint to pregnancy.