Bristlenose fry in bucket

[Benji k]

Can I grow bristlenose fry in a bucket i have heater and airstone

 

[jaylach]

Can I grow bristlenose fry in a bucket i have heater and airstone

I've never tries to 'grow' any type of pleco but I am assuming that you mean breeding.

I just don't think it would work well. While adding a heater is fine an air stone is not going to supply any filtration which is needed with plecos as they have a high bio load. As to fry I have no idea but just suspect that what you propose would not be a healthy environment.

If you want to raise fry I would have to assume that you intend to sell. Think about it. Would you want to buy fish raised as you suggest? If you are going to sell the fish need to be raised in a healthy environment. Except for a short time selling fancy guppies I have never bred for sale but I would think that you would need at least three tanks and probably more. I would think that you would need a tank for each mating pair. Then you would need a fry tank. And then you would need a juvenile tank.

 

[Benji k]

I've never tries to 'grow' any type of pleco but I am assuming that you mean breeding.

I just don't think it would work well. While adding a heater is fine an air stone is not going to supply any filtration which is needed with plecos as they have a high bio load. As to fry I have no idea but just suspect that what you propose would not be a healthy environment.

If you want to raise fry I would have to assume that you intend to sell. Think about it. Would you want to buy fish raised as you suggest? If you are going to sell the fish need to be raised in a healthy environment. Except for a short time selling fancy guppies I have never bred for sale but I would think that you would need at least three tanks and probably more. I would think that you would need a tank for each mating pair. Then you would need a fry tank. And then you would need a juvenile tank.

I have a hob filter and I’m breeding them and growing up the fry I’m going to be using driftwood Indian almond leaves and plants it’s a 5 gallon bucket and breeding bristlenose isn’t that hard I’m doing water change every other day.

 

[jaylach]

I have a hob filter and I’m breeding them and growing up the fry I’m going to be using driftwood Indian almond leaves and plants it’s a 5 gallon bucket and breeding bristlenose isn’t that hard I’m doing water change every other day.

In your initial post you said nothing about a HOB filter, just an air stone. Still, what you propose, just strikes me as wrong. What lighting is on this 'bucket'? What plants are in the bucket?

I'm sorry as the following may easily be taken as insulting but that is not my intent, really isn't. How you have described what you want to do unfortunately reminds me of a small scale version of a fish farm, just doing enough to keep the fish alive until shipped.

Since I've never bred plecos I may be totally off base but I think your stated plan will result in a lot of dead fish being delivered. The fish will just not be healthy enough to survive shipping.

Like I said I've never bred plecos of any kind so others may counter my doubts but I doubt that will happen.

 

[Benji k]

In your initial post you said nothing about a HOB filter, just an air stone. Still, what you propose, just strikes me as wrong. What lighting is on this 'bucket'? What plants are in the bucket?

I'm sorry as the following may easily be taken as insulting but that is not my intent, really isn't. How you have described what you want to do unfortunately reminds me of a small scale version of a fish farm, just doing enough to keep the fish alive until shipped.

Since I've never bred plecos I may be totally off base but I think your stated plan will result in a lot of dead fish being delivered. The fish will just not be healthy enough to survive shipping.

Like I said I've never bred plecos of any kind so others may counter my doubts but I doubt that will happen.

Why is the group always so mad

 

[jaylach]

Why is the group always so mad

Sorry but I don't understand the question. I sure intended zero anger in my last post.

Mayhaps this is one of those cases where you only want to see what you want regardless of actual facts. This actually often happens. People often will keep posting the same question over and over looking for a different answer. Not going to change my response.

Do you actually find my response angry or 'mad' or is it just that it wasn't what you wanted to hear? What you propose to do is just wrong.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Unless you separate the male and female bn they will give you about a spawn a month. A 5 gal. bucket will not be sufficient for growing out babies for very long. Because they love veggies they, make a lot of poop.

I started with bn and in the end sold my last 70 or so for a song to be rid of them. My final spawn was over 100 eggs. As the female grows she produces more and more eggs.

It got to the point where I could not move out the offspring fast enough. Some in the grow tank became old enough to spawn. They did so inside of sponge filters where I had replaced the cross piece where the airline attaches with a ring that produced fine bubbles in a circle. But this meany the plecos could get inside the skeleton pieces in the center of the sponge.

edited to fix typos