Hey,

I was wondering, what would be the minimum requirments (tank size etc.) to bred guppies as a live food treat to get my angels 'in the mood'

Thanks!

I reckon you'd be better off just feeding bloodworms - guppies aren't all that great for conditioning other fish, and they don't work out that cheap when you factor in all the maintenance etc.

ok

cheers

uhh... how should i go about breeding blood worms or is it still not worth it??

The only things that people regularly breed is Whiteworms (you can buy starter cultures), and Daphnia (often found in ponds) for the adults, and baby brine shrimp (hatched from eggs you can buy) for the fry - pretty much everything else works out cheaper to buy frozen.

At this time of year you ought to have no trouble finding live critters in small ponds etc to feed the fish. Check nobody has sprayed nearby or anything though.

Angels get in the mmod anyway with or without live foods.

live critters in small ponds etc

please don't tell me i need to quarintine them for a month before I give them to angels

Depends on where you live and pollution levels I guess :lol:

I fill containers outside then net out all sorts of interesting critters. Fish love 'em

thanks

where i was thinking is just a nearby creek but it runs down off bushy hills will it still be fine??

Summertime a tub of water left outside will soon be filled with Mozzie wrigglers. They are great free live food too. If you are in a rural area have a look in the cow troughs, often find daphnia or mozzie wrigglers in them. The may be a bit green this time of year, but the water is safe for cows to drink, so things living in there should be fish safe.

Clean running streams will be full of eels, inaunga and crayfish, so the best live food will already be eaten :roll:

Any size tank should be OK to breed guppys if you want to go that way. But you need the space to rear a couple of months supply to make it worthwhile. So by the time you set up a 100l tank you could have bought a lot of frozen fish food.

Cheers

Ian

I'm betting Caryl's container idea would be better.

With no fish in the containers its less likely (I think) that there would be parasites that would affect your fish (since there are no fish as hosts in the containers!!)

Whereas your stream may have fish in it somehwere.. whcih may have parasites and could possibly infect your fish?

(someone please correct me if I'm wrong :oops: )

Sorry to hijack.. but actually I have a container critter question now that I think of it.

I happen to have a container with only plants in it and its got some bugs growing in it that I don't recognise. I see the mozzie larvae, long with a head and kind of hairy looking .. move by wriggle in a sort of sideways motion...

but there is a bug that was very small and kind of round that propelled itself by what I can only describe as 'somersaulting' .. spins away

Is that daphnia? (this has some plants from a pond I splt up but no fish.. I'm not feeding any live foods but maybe I should?)

hey,

back from the creek, found, well, not much but i have a Black-headed jumping spider. does anyone if it is good to feed to my angels (i.e. not poisonous)

thanks

Can a plastic container outside filled with water in the sun, and you will have mossie larvae in no time

Can a plastic container outside filled with water in the sun, and you will have mossie larvae in no time

thanks, and how long is no time???

I know that some fish will eat anything that will fit in their mouth...but guppies can be used as a feeder fish for angels, just wondering since I never heard that before????

Caper

Most people discover it by accident, when they buy their first fish. You know, some guppys, some neon tetras and one of those nice gentle angelfish.

6 months later they just have a big fat :evil: angelfish :evil:

Cheers

Ian

yea,

well when i got my angels I also got 3 guppies. Yeah im down to one now :roll:

Depends on where you live

Depends on where you live

(i still haven't quite figured how to do it yet :-? ). how do you mean?? Im confused :-? ??

FIRST METHOD:

step 1: fill ice cream container with water,

srep 2: put container outside somewhere and forget about it

step 3: come back in week to 2 weeks maybe, and youll have little wriggling mozzie larvae in there

step 4: remove some larvae and feed to angels or what have you

step 5: enjoy the satisfaction of watching angels munch on free food

SECOND METHOD:

find some stagnant water, ie guttering, tarpaulins that have been left out, cow troughs, puddles, ditches, etc etc, and use a net to grab a heap of whatever is living there, almost guarentee that there will be something around your home that holds water and youve forgotten about and the mozzies would have found and started breeding from.

and there is your easy step by step guide to your fishies free food, join us tommorow for tadpoles terrific tea....

lol

I just fill containers outside (old baths, half mussel floats etc) and leave them. They soon attract all sorts of insects. Other people do the same and get nothing. It helps if you live near a waterway (more critters about) or in warmer areas (may still be too cold in some places)

CAryl i guse i should try i went 4 a walk the other dya and found a swamp and its not 2 fra away :lol:

ok thanks for all the advice everyone

hey just found a plastic dish of old water. What are the little wriggly things in there??