Youngest person to breed fish

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I have never bred any fish. I plan on eventually breeding some koi if it doesn't happen naturally. I'd prefer to choose my parents though. I am 30, so I'll be a late breeder of sorts.
 
lifeoffaith said:
I have never bred any fish. I plan on eventually breeding some koi if it doesn't happen naturally. I'd prefer to choose my parents though. I am 30, so I'll be a late breeder of sorts.
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Koi are relatively easy to breed. After a winter of cooling water temperatures, the fish normally breed in the spring. You will need lots of plants or artificial materials for the eggs to adhere to. Unless the pond is large with lots of vegetation, the eggs should be removed so they are not eaten by the other koi. A breeding size koi will produce hundreds (possibly thousands) of eggs depending upon size of the female. Once the fry hatch and start to grow you have to begin culling them. Choose the ones you like and get rid of the rest. It is amazing all the different colors and types of koi that you will get from a single pair. Good luck with your endeavor.
 
when i was in 5thgrade (guess i was 10?) i had a 10g community with tetras cories gouramies...and two dwarf cichlids. i think they were apistos or something cant remember. they had a ton of babies.
 
Hello; Perhaps the question can be divided into two sections. Many have had fish breed in tanks or in the case of livebearers have live fry even though we did nothing to cause/induce this to happen. Buying a guppy that later had fry in a tank might be such an example.

On the other hand some set up breeding tanks with conditions for the specific purpose of inducing fish to spawn. They adjust water parameters, add specific structure, select particular individual fish, take care to provide particular foods and so on. This has been the definition of breeding fish in my mind. While I have had fish spawn in community tanks many times, I have never considered this as my inducing the fish to spawn. It usually happens on it's own and I only discover the results.
One thing I started doing was to siphon community tank water into empty tanks (usually used for QT) and let it sit for a time. I have had unexpected fry show up from time to time indicating that the eggs were in the community tank substrate. This was fish spawning on their own with no credit due to myself.
 
In my daughter case she set up a tank for the convicts. Went chose the best pair she found, then i remember she did like one water change with a cup lol and then asked me to add the prime and i think she asked me to feed the "wormies" i give fish. (Bloodworms) cause i told they like it, and voila she had fry within a week. They last about 2 weeks and she fed finely ground flakes and thats it.


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severums are not hard to breed... buy six and three months later you have a pair... i just bred nandus nandus which almost never bred in captivity at the age of 16... most fish are not hard to breed with clean water, good food, and a little luck... the trick is raising them healthy
 
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