What Should I Breed?

[afishdude]

Ok guys, I have just got back into fish keeping and decided that I want to breed some fish again.

I was thinking about wild guppy or endlers but I need something that a LFS would take for sure.

Here is the set-up.

I have a 30g with 1 angelfish and 1 cory cat so this will be used as the adult tank.

I have a spare 20g that has been set-up and running for a few months now empty (filter media is in the 30g) so this will be used as the fry/growing tank.


I have successfully bred guppy (real challenge huh? LOL), beta, goldfish, and koi. So I am relatively experienced in tropic breeding.

I have a brine shrimp DIY factory set up from when I bred betas so all I have to do is order some new eggs from brine shrimp direct.

I'm just looking for some info on what you guys think I should breed. I'm doing this for fun but I'm also looking to make a little profit off this by selling the young adults to some local fish shops.

I was thinking about convics also but not sure if the LFS would buy them and/or if my angelfish would like the convics. (my angelfish is very very very calm)

I should probably add that I don't want to spend an arm and a leg on some breeders.

 

[JohnRossDele]

erm angel fish maybe; whats the sex of the one u have at the mo?

 

[afishdude]

Male, I don't have the room to raise angelfish. I could only raise maybe 10 at a time and they take months to grow big enough to sell.

 

[JohnRossDele]

then what about Green Terrors or GBR's

are you looking towards; cichlids, livebearers, misc fish, catfish or what other

Male, I don't have the room to raise angelfish. I could only raise maybe 10 at a time and they take months to grow big enough to sell.

yeah, i was thinking that after i posted that up

 

[afishdude]

Green terrors grow to 8" and are very aggressive if I remember correctly. I don't have the tank space for them and the angelfish would be shredded.

Not sure what a GBR is.

 

[AdAndrews]

breed firemouth cichlids, but try and get some wild ones, they look ace and you will have a chance of selling them

 

[kizno1]

a type of apisto
corrys
bn
ram
livebearer

 

[JohnRossDele]

Green terrors grow to 8" and are very aggressive if I remember correctly. I don't have the tank space for them and the angelfish would be shredded.

Not sure what a GBR is.

German Blue Ram

 

[bagu]

german blues, firemouths or Snakeheads XD

 

[afishdude]

Snakeheads are illegal in the USA

They were outlawed after some Asians released them into the waterways and they started eating everything in the rivers.


Im leaning towards german blue rams. I'm just worried about buying a pair and having them not breed.

 

[afishdude]

I think I'm going to go for german blues.

I have a couple of questions...


Where is a good place to buy a pair online? I do NOT trust my LFS.

Would the LFS buy the juvies or would I have to sell them online?

 

[bagu]

hmmmm

Trimar?

you could check your other LFS and hae them order them in for ya =]

mine order a mixture of adult/juvies.

 

[JohnRossDele]

get a proven pair of gbr's online at any good sites that sell fish

P.S the snakeheads could be bought online and no-one would know, just dont let any of your local fishkeepin' friends know that your keeping an actual fugitive fish

 

[afishdude]

Any good online fish stores that you can recommend? Or a place where other fish keepers sell fish (other than the classifieds here)

 

[drobbyb]

Try http/www.aquabid.com/ Lots of fish for sale auction style. Kind of like ebay for fishkeeping.