What would you breed in a 80 gallon frag tank?

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Ok so I'm thinking about breeding something. I've bred a number of cichlids and smaller egg layers before. I want something I can have my kids help out with, so I'm not looking to breed anything that will require utterly microscopic first foods.

The tank is an 80 gallon "frag" tank, 48" long, 24" wide, and 16" tall. It is drilled, and has a 75 gallon sump, plus I have a spare 75g and a handful of small 10-29 gallon tanks to use for Growout.

My water has a high pH (8.0+)but is relatively soft (1-2GH and 2kH),its Charleston county water, South Carolina.

I don't mind adding minerals to garden the water and I use crushed Oyster shells in my display tanks already.

I'm thinking about breeding Cuban cichlids or perhaps an African cichlid. Maybe a harem of Demasoni or Saulosi?

Looking for suggestions here.
 
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BadGaskets said:
Ok so I'm thinking about breeding something. I've bred a number of cichlids and smaller egg layers before. I want something I can have my kids help out with, so I'm not looking to breed anything that will require utterly microscopic first foods.

The tank is an 80 gallon "frag" tank, 48" long, 24" wide, and 16" tall. It is drilled, and has a 75 gallon sump, plus I have a spare 75g and a handful of small 10-29 gallon tanks to use for Growout.

My water has a high pH (8.0+)but is relatively soft (1-2GH and 2kH),its Charleston county water, South Carolina.

I don't mind adding minerals to garden the water and I use crushed Oyster shells in my display tanks already.

I'm thinking about breeding Cuban cichlids or perhaps an African cichlid. Maybe a harem of Demasoni or Saulosi?

Looking for suggestions here.
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Get some A. Borellii, they are really tolerant of high PH (but maybe add some tannins just in case) and fetch a pretty penny, you could section off the 80 into 4 chunks with dividers, and breed a swarm of dwarf cichlids!
Money!!!
 
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If I could ever find any decent ones. They are native here but these natives stay quite small and gray.

I used to have some really nice, HUGE black sailfins, but they all died from contaminated tubifex. I'll have to order them if I can find them.
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Try Greg Sage and Select Aquatics. He has some huge Yucatán mollies available. He also has a bunch of nice wild livebearers
 
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Local store told me they really are looking for some African shell dwellers which sounds like a great fit.

They are small fish, so if I decided to breed them in a large colony in this big 4ft x 2ft tank, would I need to partition it off for individual breeding groups, or would I do fine with a couple males and a bunch of females all in an undivided tank?

I suppose I'm asking if a single big colony will end up with too much stress from territory fights and fry getting eaten.
 
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Local store told me they really are looking for some African shell dwellers which sounds like a great fit.

They are small fish, so if I decided to breed them in a large colony in this big 4ft x 2ft tank, would I need to partition it off for individual breeding groups, or would I do fine with a couple males and a bunch of females all in an undivided tank?

I suppose I'm asking if a single big colony will end up with too much stress from territory fights and fry getting eaten.
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I doubt it, a massive colony like that won't be too stressful on any individual fish
 
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