Have you ever bred aquarium fish?

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Have you ever bred aquarium fish?

If so what kind and maybe you could elaborate a little?

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[shred5]

I used to breed clown fish for a very short time.. Small set up couple brood stock tanks.. I had to rip them down pretty fast because I had to move. I eventually will set them up again.. I rasied rotifers and also some varieties of copepods as food along with brine shrimp. I used reeds rotifer diet for the rotifer and brine shrimp enriching.

 

[Just Clownin Around]

Clownfish
Bangai cardinals

The bangais were to hard because I couldn't keep the male feed. Female would put eggs in the males mouth a day after he finished holding. Now I am just sticking with clowns

I am going to try dotty backs and neon gobies soon. They are very difficult to pair though

 

[dallas reefer]

How do you raise your own food for the fish? Is it difficult?

 

[dell2go]

Discus fish fresh water though.

 

[Just Clownin Around]

How do you raise your own food for the fish? Is it difficult?

when i first started i used to grow my own phyto, rotifers, and brine shrimp. now i just use rotifers, i skip the brine shrimp and i feed reeds roti grow plus to the rotifers for there food. it much more efficient but alot more costly to do it the way i am now but it makes it sooooo much easier

 

[camnbron]

I've successfully raised 1/2 dozen batches of Banggai's. Tried to move to breeding 2nd gen pair but lost the new male (after rehoming the parents of course, sigh).
Currently have a new male holding at day 23 - due to release anytime now. He's contained in a floating cage in my display tank in order to capture all the offspring. Once he has released them they will be fed on Baby brine shrimp for about a month before being transferred to a frozen food mix. At around 2 months they get transferred to a 37 litre growout tank that is plumbed into the sump of the 650litre reeftank.

 

[Chelle's Ocean]

Camnbron...updates?

 

[FishofoutWater]

Bangai, Erectus seahorses, and Atlantic rays. I still personally beleive the ray was the hardest.

 

[jbb3994]

My first experience with saltwater fish was actually breeding. I was part of a laboratory group that bred Percula and Ocellaris clownfish. It was tough at first, but I worked with some very experienced people, and we went all out. It definitely helped me learn everything quickly. When I started keeping saltwater fish in my personal home, it was a piece of cake. We didn't do any selective breeding though. We did get some interesting misbar patterns, and some hemibranchs as well. We also briefly forayed into dottybacks and watchman gobies. We had a pair of Indigo (sankeyi x fridamani), but we never were able to successfully rear larvae. We did get some watchman goby babies though. The problem there was pairing them up. We would get dominant individuals that would rather kill than pair. Eventually we got some to pair though, and it was really cool to watch.

In my personal time, 6 years later, I breed and have bred swordtails (I have a rather nice pair of pure swordtails, in their natural color, with no mixing of platy genes), mollies, platies, firemouth cichilds (raising some babies now, that are officially big enough to be on frozen mysis shrimp), convict cichlids, and guppies. Future projects include Hippocampus erectus (I have two females now, as I don't have a tank to rear the fry yet) and maybe green banded gobies.