What To Breed Platys Or Convicts?!

[JohnRossDele]

Would the convict be a better breeder than a krib or livebearer

 

[LauraFrog]

Livebearers are the easiest common tropicals to breed once you get them started. If you can get initial stock that is free from parasites (which generally cause female infertility) then you will have loads of fry. It's just a matter of learning to recognise when the females are going to drop. They are colourful, the fry are born large and well developed and are very easy to raise. Also, you can rear them in small tanks (I use 5 gallon tanks to rear livebearer fry.) Personally I would recommend platys to a new breeder - I started breeding with platys, they are very easy to care for, breed prolifically, and it's very easy to find people who will take the fry (this has to be one of your main considerations, because it's harder than it looks to home them all.)

Kribs are easy to breed and you can even do it in a community, but it would want to be a big and sparsely stocked community, because like convicts they will violently defend their fry and they don't care what they have to kill. They are smaller than convicts which may be a consideration - how big is the tank you've got in mind?

Krib fry would be easier to offload than convicts, because a single kribensis can live quite happily in a community with almost no aggression (provided you don't keep it with guppies etc. which it will shred) so they are a fairly popular fish. Convicts get large, and they will also produce more fry, so the fish shops don't sell as many of them and it might be harder finding a place for the babies.

Both kribs and convicts will guard their fry for the first few weeks, herding them around the tank to feed. They will defend the fry from other fish, until they eventually get the urge to breed again, and will drive away their last batch of fry. This is when you remove the fry and grow them on elsewhere - usually by that point, the fry are so large that it's just a matter of feeding them and waiting for them to get big enough to sell. Livebearers will eat their fry if they are allowed to give birth in a community tank, but if you separate the females for a few days and collect the fry, they are REALLY easy to raise and you get high survival rates.

 

[JohnRossDele]

Livebearers are the easiest common tropicals to breed once you get them started. If you can get initial stock that is free from parasites (which generally cause female infertility) then you will have loads of fry. It's just a matter of learning to recognise when the females are going to drop. They are colourful, the fry are born large and well developed and are very easy to raise. Also, you can rear them in small tanks (I use 5 gallon tanks to rear livebearer fry.) Personally I would recommend platys to a new breeder - I started breeding with platys, they are very easy to care for, breed prolifically, and it's very easy to find people who will take the fry (this has to be one of your main considerations, because it's harder than it looks to home them all.)

Kribs are easy to breed and you can even do it in a community, but it would want to be a big and sparsely stocked community, because like convicts they will violently defend their fry and they don't care what they have to kill. They are smaller than convicts which may be a consideration - how big is the tank you've got in mind?

Krib fry would be easier to offload than convicts, because a single kribensis can live quite happily in a community with almost no aggression (provided you don't keep it with guppies etc. which it will shred) so they are a fairly popular fish. Convicts get large, and they will also produce more fry, so the fish shops don't sell as many of them and it might be harder finding a place for the babies.

Both kribs and convicts will guard their fry for the first few weeks, herding them around the tank to feed. They will defend the fry from other fish, until they eventually get the urge to breed again, and will drive away their last batch of fry. This is when you remove the fry and grow them on elsewhere - usually by that point, the fry are so large that it's just a matter of feeding them and waiting for them to get big enough to sell. Livebearers will eat their fry if they are allowed to give birth in a community tank, but if you separate the females for a few days and collect the fry, they are REALLY easy to raise
and you get high survival rates.

Thanx, for the info!!!!!

Are platys the one to go if so

What tank size
How many
What temp
Bare bottom tank or heavily planted
What food ect...
Thanx a mill'

 

[JohnRossDele]

what is actually easier to pair and get fry?!!

 

[TheBigEasy]

what is actually easier to pair and get fry?!!

Convicts are pretty easy to pair. At about 1.5" the female will start to show red/pink on her belly.

also, kennyi's are easy to sex being that the males are yellow and females are blue.