10 Gallon Breeding Project

[9murphy9]

hi
in a few weeks, i will be having a free 10 gallon tank due to moving my small angels ,guppies and platies to a bigger tank.
i have been thinking that i would like to start a small breeding project in there, the temp is oddly high at 30 degrees Celsius and that's with a 6 gallon heater ,but providing i could lower the temp what could i have as a breeding project.If anybody can help me by posting what i could have and how complex the breeding technique is i'd really appreciate thanks

Alex

 

[SombreroBanana]

You could always breed killifish. There's a pretty big market for them. If I were you though, I'd start a shrimp tank. They multiply fast and sell pretty fast on AquaBid.

 

[Khalil]

Well your setup would depend on what type of fish you were interested in breeding. Were you thinking of breeding live-bearers or egg layers? Personally I love Poecilia wingei (Endlers Livebearers). They are relatively easy to breed and pure strains can sell for quite a bit!

 

[the_lock_man]

[font=comic sans ms']Well your setup would depend on what type of fish you were interested in breeding. Were you thinking of breeding live-bearers or egg layers? Personally I love Poecilia wingei (Endlers Livebearers). They are relatively easy to breed and pure strains can sell for quite a bit![/font]

The problem is getting pure strain Endlers in the first place - the vast majority of LFS endlers are endler/guppy hybrids to a lesser or greater extent.

Strongly suggest you don't go for the popular livebearers (platies, guppies, mollies, swordtails), as you will probably find it very difficult to move the fry on - because they're so easy to breed, they're very cheap to do so commercially, so there's little to no value in private-bred fry.

And that's the story across fishkeeping - the easier it is to do, the more people are already doing so, the cheaper the fry are, therefore the harder is to sell your own fry.

The Killi suggestion above is quite a good one, smallish cory species as well, but cories require a certain amount of intervention otherwise they just eat their own eggs. Peacock gobies are fairly easy to work with, but again, the fry are vulnerable to predation from the parents.

Rare livebearers (Limia species, for example, like the one in my avatar) are resonably easy to breed, and can be sold on, especially on Aquabid in the US or Aquarist Classifieds in the UK.

Shrimp can be good fun to do, I have a breeding colony of red cherry shrimp in one tank, I started off with 10 adults, and a few shrimplets about a year ago, and now have around 25 - this is without any intervention in a community tank, but with a decent load of java moss for the shrimplets to survive in. I'd quite like to go for some Blue Pearl Shrimp in my smaller tank, if I can find any at a sensible price.

 

[9murphy9]

thanks guys i'd like something nice to watch and that i wouldn't have to constantly be moving parents and fry something that i could put a female and male in and leave them two it let the parents raise the fry,as another tank is not really an option.i have a few platies but as you said they breed so fast you can almost get them for free,i though some species of dwarf cichlid but i've raid that after the spawning the female must be removed.i dont mmind if there high maintence as long as the fry will fetch a decent price and will go quickly and the adults can live out there life in the 10 gallon thanks for the help

Alex