How do i breed feeder fish?
I have a water turtle & red claw crayfish and I want to breed feeder guppies
The tank is 4 foot L and 16 “ W and 2 foot H (only partially way up though)
My turtle rarely eats the fish any passageway (most of the feeder fish will be feed to my red claw crayfish
Fish:
4 goldfish
2 plecos
2 zebra Danios
1 Mollie
1 Cory cat
Getting some guppies to breed as feeder fish
What I have in the reservoir:
Heater
2 filers
Big gravel (cuz of turtle)
Got some drift wood to go in
Got 20+ live plants to go surrounded by
Heat lamp (cuz of turtle)
Uvb light (cuz of turtle)
Goldfish are easy to breed put them in a filter tank feed them make certain to put half of a styrofoam cup on the surface of the water they will blow bubbles under the cup to spawn a nest
resourcefully if you want to make it easy on yourself win some guppies. They just breed automatically. Then just buy a little breeding cistern (about $5-10) that sits on the top of the aquarium and put the pregnant fish in there. It has a moment or two separator in it and the babies go to the bottom so the female doesn't chomp through them. Then keep the babies in there until the are big adequate so they don't get eaten and...you got feeder fish. It seem like a lot of work but its much easier than those other fish. And if you want feeder fish within mass quantities i just say buy a great deal of guppies and make sure you take comfort of them. I hope this helped!!
make sure all your fish enjoy little condoms. get the trojan all size pack
Guppies are EASY. Just keep them by themselves in a separate tank. Get a few females and males (more females than males), or merely a tank full of females and drop a male in here every once in a while. They are VERY sexually active little creatures, and you'll have a bunch of kid guppies in no time. Make sure to separate the fry, though. Guppies have a proclivity to eat their young.
A few suggestions:
-Get another little cory cat. They tend to get lonely by themselves.
-How oodles gallons is your tank? If it's smaller than 20 gallons, you may have some problems with the excess produced by your goldfish and turtle (they produce a lot of waste and turtles are generally messy eaters); however the live plants, a righteous filter, and regular partial water changes will help preserve the tank safe for your fish.
-Be careful beside that turtle and crayfish. If they ever outgrow your fish, they may become snacks.
-Bubble stones are great for keeping your tank aerated. This will keep your fish, plants, and the bacterial filter healthy and thankful.
Hope this all helps. Good luck with your reservoir!
Answers: Basically, all you own to do is to put the guppies together and they'll do the deed on their own. =]
As a tip, put more females than males. It'll greatly increase your chances of getting more pregnant females. =]
You can determine that she's pregnant by looking at her gravid spot.
Gravid spot pic:
http://aqualandpetsplus.com/livebe18.jpg
As she nears her due date, her stomach will get hold of bigger and bigger, her gravid spot will get darker and darker, and her stomach will go and get squarish.
At this point, you always could get breeder net, breeding trap, or breeder box. (They're virtually equal thing, just different names for different styles)
My counsel is that although the breeder net is okay and does the job of isolating the female fish from the others, it's not the best for a couple of reason. For one, the fries (baby fish) don't have places to hide and make trouble-free meals for the female. Two, even if within was a place for them to stay (some breeders have "slits" and compartments that shield them from the mother), they don't always stay nearby.
What I do is isolate the pregnant fish by putting her in another tank if available. If you don't hold separate tank, then you can use an empty gallon of milk carton.
Just cut the top of an senseless gallon of milk carton. Clean it, fill it with water and tolerate it sit for a couple of hours, at least to get it to room temperature. Fill it next to aquatic plants of some sort, preferable enough to hide the fry but not so much so that the mother fish doesn't enjoy enough room to exercise or move around.
Put her in that. That will be your own "breeding net," per right to be heard. I personally don't like the breeding nets they flog at the store unless they're the ones that come with the fake plants. Even then, I'd recommend making your own as it save you money and the real plants provide enough oxygen for the mother and baby fish. =] Also, by doing this, you can set free money and you don't have to worry about person there to take the mother out when she gives birth. Most of the fry will survive long satisfactory for you to realize that the mother has given birth and scoop her out. =]]]
For food, just take some flakes and put them in a ziploc bag. Grind them until it's a very, extraordinarily fine powder. At first, they'll try to eat and may not fit everything in their mouth but by day two, they'll start gobble them up like hungry vultures. =]]]]
After she's done giving birth, take her out but don't put her with the males, whether you have any, as they will immediately try and mate with her again, cause her more stress and possibly killing her. It's best to put her in another tank/carton for at least 24 hours previously putting her with the males.
Hope that all helps. Good luck!
