Please share your experience in raising endlers

[lee_an]

Say if you have endlers or are going to get them.Just share your experiences

 

[JeremyD]

Beautiful hardy fish.

I have about 100 or so at the moment, from several different lines. They are easy to take care of, and easy to breed. Definately recommended to anyone who likes livebearers.

 

[lee_an]

Beautiful hardy fish.

I have about 100 or so at the moment, from several different lines. They are easy to take care of, and easy to breed. Definately recommended to anyone who likes livebearers.

I only have 5,3 male 2 female.Trying to corss them. a female was sadly squashed by bogwood,and another male died of lousy water conditions.How long it takes for them to breed

 

[Mamaschild]

I've been raising them for about a year now. They are very easy, hardy, and breed like crazy

Just provide them with lots of plants and clean water.....don't need anything else

I started with 12 VERY young fry, lost 3 in the first two weeks, and raised the others to adulthood. I now have 7 or 8 adult males, 10 or 12 adult females, TONS of juveniles of all ages, and just noticed a new batch had been born sometime between Friday and Sunday...at least 10 or so.

The fry I started with, released a new fry in just 3 months. From my understanding they will reproduce very young, starting with one or two in each release, and moving on to release ~20 as they grow and mature.

HTH

 

[shrks1fan]

I have 5 male endlers (no females). They are beutiful fish and soooo cute because they're so small!! They seem to be very hardy fish, will eat anything and try to mate with anything in the tank, haha. I keep them with male juvinile guppies (I seperate my females from the male guppies as soon as I can tell the difference, usually starting about 2 weeks old).

Linda

 

[lee_an]

I've been raising them for about a year now. They are very easy, hardy, and breed like crazy

Just provide them with lots of plants and clean water.....don't need anything else

I started with 12 VERY young fry, lost 3 in the first two weeks, and raised the others to adulthood. I now have 7 or 8 adult males, 10 or 12 adult females, TONS of juveniles of all ages, and just noticed a new batch had been born sometime between Friday and Sunday...at least 10 or so.

The fry I started with, released a new fry in just 3 months. From my understanding they will reproduce very young, starting with one or two in each release, and moving on to release ~20 as they grow and mature.

HTH

MY endler gave birth today,but how come i only found 2 dead young.Do they eat their young .Hopefully the other female gives birth,she looks like an overgrown apple

 

[abe]

I FINALLY got my hands on 4 of these lil guys, 2 males & 2 females. None of my lfs seem to have even heard of them, & if they have they don't know if they can get them in. Thank goodness for the internet

How many fry will they produce at around 3-4 months old? Mine dont look prego yet, I hope to get some babies soon!

& from what Ive heard they don't eat their young, I read that their mouths are too small or something

 

[lee_an]

I FINALLY got my hands on 4 of these lil guys, 2 males & 2 females. None of my lfs seem to have even heard of them, & if they have they don't know if they can get them in. Thank goodness for the internet

How many fry will they produce at around 3-4 months old? Mine dont look prego yet, I hope to get some babies soon!

& from what Ive heard they don't eat their young, I read that their mouths are too small or something

Fortunately,in singapore,we have a few endler breeders and one lives 15 minutes away.

 

[lee_an]

Anymore with endlers share their experience?

 

[abe]

BOTH of my males jumped out of their tank last night so grrr!

Thankfully the person I got them from can send me some more, but geeze.

 

[GuppyDude]

not much differant from guppys really, juts a tad smaller, and prolly a bit brighter. most lfs dont sell them but if u look in the feeder guppy tank ur almost garateed to spot a few

 

[guppler]

The only endler I ever bought was at a store called AquaWorld. I thought he was a young guppy until the lady who runs the store told the guy who fished them out for me that it was different. I think by then i had already decided his name was Tiger and i liked him , so i went ahead and paid extra for him. He hadn't been in my tank long when i noticed he was less active than my bigger guppies and not eating well, so i went to Petsmart, which was the only pet store open when I got worried about him, and I bought some baby food and tried to find out more about the critter. the Petsmart guy got out a big book and showed me lots of pictures, but none of them looked like Tiger, and I don't think the people at AquaWorld ever told my exactly what kind of fish he was. after a few days in a brederbox with small powdered food and a little extra atention, Tiger recovered enough to want out of the little cage.
Later I saw a tank at Capitol Aqarium that was labeled "Endler's Livebearers". All the fish in the tank looked almost exactly like my Tiger. I think he grew a little, but he couldn't have been as young as I originally thought. I didn't know if they could breed with guppies at that point, but when i noticed that some of my fry stayed smaller than others I started to wonder. Then i started seeing boys grow up and develop the endler marks. Usually the clearest mark is the dark slanted streak on each side near the gills. some of mine have a line of dots instead of a continuous line or the mark is branched or different in some other way, but it's pretty easy to recognize. Most of the other characteristic endler marks are there on a lot of my fish, but not to many have the lyre tail. One has a pretty good delta tail and a lot have shortish rounded tails with a spike in the middle or multiple spikes, which results in some interesting tail shapes. Eventually I learned to recognize the shape and pattern of dots usually seen in Endlers on some of my female guppies. they usually aren't particularly small, but I have a range of sizes. A lot of my darker guppies, mostly male, but some female are so small that i'm sore ther are gupplers too. I finally have one grown up baby who looks almost exactly like I remember Tiger. He's on my as yet unwritten list of fish to try breeding.
Oh and they are fiesty little guys. They follow my bigger boys around and nip at them, and when I was having a population explosion in my first 10 gallon tank and put in a divider in an attempt to slow them down, Tiger kept finding his way to the girl side.

 

[Mamaschild]

not much differant from guppys really, juts a tad smaller, and prolly a bit brighter. most lfs dont sell them but if u look in the feeder guppy tank ur almost garateed to spot a few

Actually, what you see in the feeder Guppy tanks are not normally Endler's....just wild types. They are not ugly, but not nearly as brightly colored as Endler's.