Guest Posted December 16, 2008 Report Share Posted December 16, 2008 What size tanks are good breeding size tanks for breeding small fish (under 5 cms)? And whats a good fairly hard fish to breed? I've bred WCMM, Chocolate Australe, BNs, lots of different colours of Platys (mainly blues) and Fighters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsmith Posted December 16, 2008 Report Share Posted December 16, 2008 Depends how many fish you want in a tank. I have 11l breeders that I use for guppies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 17, 2008 Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 It depends on what fish I decide to breed. I'm going to try panda corys and I've got a group of 8. Also I'm going to breed chocolate Australes in a group of about 6 (2 trios). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsmith Posted December 17, 2008 Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 Are you wanting to put the corys together or 2 groups of 4? They'd be find all together in a 40l, or in a group of 4 in a 20l if it had a big footprint. Babies could be raised in a small 10l or something if you move them as they grow. If I was doing it, I'd have 4 shallow 20l tanks (maybe 10cm deep), put 4 adults in two of them, and put new babies in 10l grow out tanks, as they grow move them up to the bigger tanks. No idea about killies sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 17, 2008 Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 I'd like to keep the parents together and have a seperate tank that I can just tank the eggs out and hatch them in there. The killies I'll keep together for a while and then take the parents out and let the eggs hatch in the same tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted December 17, 2008 Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 With the killies you would be better to take the eggs out and hatch them seperately, then raise them in a small tank. Stops them eating the eggs so much, and you can raise them in batches about the same age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 17, 2008 Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 Yeah when I bred them last time thats how I did it but then you've got lots of different containers. I was going to just have heaps of spawning mops but maybe I should just take the eggs out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Would 30cm by 30 cm by 30 tanks be ok for breeding things like Pandas, Australes, Chocolate Gouramis and stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 If you seperate males and females and condition them up, then spawn them you will end up with a good number of fry about the same age and then they are easier to rear than heaps at all different ages that can't go in the same tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 What fish it that? Or is that all fish in general? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 I condition all fish up before spawning so as to get a good number of eggs. With mop spawning killies I do it to try and get a good number of eggs that will hatch about the same time and be able to be raised in the same tank rather than having lots of tanks with fry of all different ages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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