Could This Work?

[fish.com1]

Hi all,

In my 35 litre tank i am going to be soon keeping some snowballl shrimp and if the conditions allow some endlers which i hope to breed. I am hoping actually that both the shrimp and endlers will breed in the tank. However i am worried about the endlers breeding. I have read that the fry can be raised in the same tank as the parents (with the bushy plants,moss,hideaways etc) but i have also read that the amount of fry can get out of control. I have this 35 litre tank and my 96 litre fully stocked community, which means no chance of having a growing on tank for the fry (parents!), so what i am wondering is will the fry be ok growing in this 35 litre tank? Or will it be too overstocked with all the fry after having several batches of them? I am thinking of starting out with 2 females and one male to minimise the amount of fry so i have figured that with 2 females i should get around 30-40 fry every 20ish days? What would be a good size of the fry to give them away at, and how long will it take them to grow to this length?
I was thinking if i could get the fry from one batch to the lfs and people on here before the females have more fry then i could raise the 30-40 fry in the 35 litre tank every 20 days before the new fry come.It depends on how quickly they grow i suppose. If need be would i be able to move the fry over to my community to grow on? There is lemon tetras, cherry barbs, rams, a ruby barb, a red honey gourami and a bristlenose cat in the tank. Would the fry be ok with all of these? The tank is well planted and is a Juwel tank so has the Juwel internal filter.

So can someone reccomend a good strategy for raising the fry within the 2 tanks?

Thanks.

 

[Truck]

IME endlers generally on average have about 20 fry, but if your serious your gonna need massive grow out tanks.

 

[mattbond]

my friend is having a similar problem with a 40 litre, he has lots of fry in there, but there not of reasonable size to give away

 

[fish.com1]

IME endlers generally on average have about 20 fry, but if your serious your gonna need massive grow out tanks.

I'm not serious as in fish roooms etc. I am just wanting to breed some for the interest and don't want to breed them on a massive scale.

 

[malakye]

Your biggest problem is rehoming the fry, most FS will not take anything like that from you.

 

[stang1]

It would be worth asking your LFS if they will rehome any fry. You'd be surprised how many of them are struggling to get hold of them.

 

[fish.com1]

It would be worth asking your LFS if they will rehome any fry. You'd be surprised how many of them are struggling to get hold of them.

Yes i have asked them and they said they would. Anyone else got any answers on my above post?

 

[neilmcq]

It would be worth asking your LFS if they will rehome any fry. You'd be surprised how many of them are struggling to get hold of them.

Yes i have asked them and they said they would. Anyone else got any answers on my above post?

ive got endlers and cherry shrimp breeding happily in a 40ltr tank. the endlers dont have any where near as many fry as stated above unless there trapped... they are not too bad on pickin off young but will take a few like most livebearers.if you have a few nice strains of endlers u'll find it easier for people to take them from you as they are less common than say a mixed strain guppy. as said b4 a nice heavily moss/planted tank and both will breed in relative safety and harmony

 

[OldMan47]

My endlers breed very quickly and soon get the tank completely full. Tank size does not matter, they fill up fast. Once the tank is full, the survival rate drops dramatically and the tank just stays very full. If you pull out the largest ones and sell them or give them away, the tank fills right back up. I have about 100 in a 45 gallon and similar high numbers in my 29 and my 20H. When I pull all of the adults from any of those tanks it bounces back in about a month.