What Fish Are Easy To Breed?

[Absta209]

Ok so I've got 6 20 gallon tanks built onto a stand all with good filtration. I've also got a 63 gallon with sump built on a stand ( Very good filtration). I was wondering what African Cichlids would be easy to breed for a beginner? I've bred convicts before so anything at that difficulty( I know convicts are VERY easy to breed). I've also got 2 smaller 10 gallon tanks on top of that.

Thanks in advance

The link for my 60 gallon tank on stand. Got a convict pair in there producing fry.

 

[peterclarke666]

Ok so I've got 6 20 gallon tanks built onto a stand all with good filtration. I've also got a 63 gallon with sump built on a stand ( Very good filtration). I was wondering what African Cichlids would be easy to breed for a beginner? I've bred convicts before so anything at that difficulty( I know convicts are VERY easy to breed). I've also got 2 smaller 10 gallon tanks on top of that.

Thanks in advance

The link for my 60 gallon tank on stand. Got a convict pair in there producing fry.

tbh anything is easy to breed as long as you have the right water ..... apisto cacs are easy to bred if you get the ph down to 5.0 ish, as with anything its just a good diet and the correct water conditions which doesnt take much work

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

African Blockhead Cichlids (Steatocranus casuarius being the most common) are very easy to breed, without needing to worry too much about water chemistry. My bonded pair bred three times in Southampton's hard tap water that is pH 8-8.2, giving a good mix of males and females, unlike Kribs which can be highly skewed to males (I think, peterclarke666 is a perfect fishkeeper to ask this, being an experience Krib breeder).

The only thing to be wary of is that Steatocranus are usually excellent protective parents, so any tankmates would need to be robust hardy fish, as and when the cichlids breed. A lengthy tank in such situations would be a great help to the tankmates, but even this cannot save them sometimes, I lost three fish back in early November in a Rio240.

 

[gregswimm]

IME water has nothing to do with it (as long as it is clean). Its all about the environment you provide for the fish.

And convicts are just aquatic rabbits.

Edit: I spawn L.orantipinnis, J.marlieri, L.multi, A.compressiceps, Kribs, Angles, C.leptosoma, GBRs, and some others I cannot remember. They all take what come out of my tap and I have more fry than I know what to do with....

Don't mess with the chemistry, you are only going to stress the fish by fluctuating PH and GH. Just keep it clean and consistent. Plenty of fish are triggered into spawning by just skipping a few water changes and then doing one really big change, this simulates a rain storm and works very well with some species.

 

[Dieses Madchen]

My malawi cichlids bump uglies all the time. THe only think about them is they are easy to breed but you need to know when a female is holdingso you cam remove her. Once she spits the babies all the other fish will eat them.

Jack dempseys are easy to breed, gts are easy to breed....the list goes on

 

[peterclarke666]

IME water has nothing to do with it (as long as it is clean). Its all about the environment you provide for the fish.

And convicts are just aquatic rabbits.

Edit: I spawn L.orantipinnis, J.marlieri, L.multi, A.compressiceps, Kribs, Angles, C.leptosoma, GBRs, and some others I cannot remember. They all take what come out of my tap and I have more fry than I know what to do with....

Don't mess with the chemistry, you are only going to stress the fish by fluctuating PH and GH. Just keep it clean and consistent. Plenty of fish are triggered into spawning by just skipping a few water changes and then doing one really big change, this simulates a rain storm and works very well with some species.

well thats not true about the water as some species like nanochromis transvestitus and other various apistogrammas then eggs wont devolop unless there in a ph of 5.0 or less and this has been confirmed by the worlds top breeders but your breeding fish there that arnt fussed on water perameters like that and also a high GH level and stop the eggs devoloping aswel in some species

 

[gregswimm]

Why don;t you jus tumble them in a tank with those parameters?