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What do you all think is the easiest non livebearer to breed that is inexpensive and small...like platy sized or there about?

small... some say a betta but i dont. i think a good one is cory cats, generlly get a group and they will mate sooner or later, or u can go with small danios or white cloud minnows.

thats what i meant, danios just not gaint danios.

Last edited by bettachris at 23-Oct-2005 17:25

how abt the regular danios like the zebras and the leopards.

if you go a little bigger kribs are very easy to breed. just get a male and female and a flower pot and they will spawn constantly. so much in fact my krib fry just bought my 55g tank i had to replace because of a leak. my lfs gave me $2-$3 per fry when they reached about 1-1.5 inches.


chris

I second Kribs though we had Tager barbs breed for us when we weren't even trying. We noticed a couple chasing around, caught them and put them in an empty ten with lots of fake plants. They got to it the next morning and we had about a bazillion fry.

Good luck, Mike

fish are easiest to breed, when u are not even trying, so the best thing is not to try and force anything. let nature take its course.

"if you go a little bigger kribs are very easy to breed. just get a male and female and a flower pot and they will spawn constantly"

You put them in a flower pot? Are you serious? Ok. This is what I am picturing. A terra cotta or plastic round flower pot, with water in it and two fish swimming around! I am assuming no gravel...heater....filter??? Thats wild!! Never heard anything like that!

for me in my 90 gal 6 silver dollars breeding all the time i think i would have a ton of fry if it wasn't for my two pictus cats enjoying their buffet!!!!! ooh and don't forget whodini the eel, probley getting a few too!!!!!!!!!!!!!

90g- anguilla rostrata,6 silver dollars,2 pictus catfish 60 g- anguilla rostrata 29g-4 blk skirt&4 serpia tetras, 6 harliquin resbora, 3kuhli loach 20g- 2 mountian minnows, 2 zebra danio& dojo loach , a corn snake and 2 monster dogs

DO NOT PUT THEM IN A FLOWER POT. i meant a flower pot in the tank for them to spawn in.


chris

Gouramis can be quite easy to breed but getting ahold of the smaller species isn't always easy. Rams aren't too hard. I've seen them spawning in tanks at the store. You just need a male and female or 1male and 2 females and a flat surface in the tank. Neon tetras shouldn't be too hard either. My dad had some spawning and even hatched the eggs a few times back when we didn't know anything about fish. The fry always got eaten though. That's all I can think of for small easy spawners. I have several other fish that spawn regularly without work but some are outside your size requirements, some won't spawn for me once I move them from my main tank to where the eggs won't get eaten, and some have fry that are very difficult to raise. Threadfin rainbows weren't too hard to get to actually spawn but the difficulty lies in getting the eggs to hatch and the fry to survive. They are quite sensitive and an adult threadfin can't even eat pelleted foods the size of baby brine shrimp so the fry are a real pain to feed.

Ohhhhh....ok! I knew you couldnt have been talking about just a flower pot!!

i somehow fail to even breed a single fish apart from angel fishs..and thats the first and only time...im trying hard to breed kribs now...i have 4 of them...they arent forming a pair at all.