Breeding Options

[silver dollars]

Hey everyone! I was wondering you guy's could help me figure out what fish to breed next. I have the following: 4 Silver Dollars(Metynnis Hypsauchen), 2 Blue rams(Microgeophaugus Ramirezi), 2 Knight Gobies, 1 Golden ram(female, i will get like 3-4 more very soon*SUPERSMIL ), 2 Angels, Kribs(P. pulcher, i will also get 4-5 soon), 2 Black Skirt tetras, 1 phantom tetra(i think), 1 Swegles tetra, 1 Pepper Cory, 1 Panda cory, 1 Green Cory, 2 Julie cory's, 2 Golden gourami's, 2 Killies, and 2 Bettas, and they should be here soon, i ordered some (6-7) Xiphophorus Montezumae Swordtails*SUPERSMIL *BOUNCINGS*. What should i breed next?

 

[UP UP AND GUPPY]

Well tetras are hard to breed so try the bettas if you have females.

 

[Zman16]

What tank size do u got?

 

[silver dollars]

I have a 75G of swordtails, 55G with the fish i listed earlier, and 2 29G which im planning to use when i breed my fish. I do have a female betta and im going to get a male soon cause my other one died

 

[UP UP AND GUPPY]

That will be kool to breed bettas.

 

[Cichlid-Man]

Wait so do you prefer to breed cichlids? And are you looking for a new fish to breed or a species you already have? We need more info, there are tons of choices.

 

[Zman16]

That's impressive that you bred all those fish.

 

[FishGeek]

OK Wait a minute!! You have all of the fish listed in the first thread in a 55G tank (except for the Bettas and Swords)!!!! Your kidding right!! Has anyone notice how over stocked that is??!!?? I added up the inches of fish and it came out 107!!!!! I think that you need to do some rethinking before you start breeding fish. (Im not trying to be rude just leting you know the facts)

 

[silver dollars]

Its mostly my silver dollars who take up all that space but the thing that i kinda did wrong was putting a male betta in my tank with rams! The male betta and the Golden ram do not get a long, even though my ram wins usually*BOUNCINGS. I've bred my rams, mainly my Goldens rams who have bred like 8-9 times but the eggs don't survive. I put them in a separate tank, kill all the snails, let them lay the eggs and fan them for a day, then i take the parents out, but they still die, could it be that the pH isn't good for them or something along the lines of that? Once they survived but they all died in a day. I'm manly wanting to breed either my rams or my silver dollars. I have 2 29G tanks im going to use to breed the fish in. *celebrate *PEACE!*

 

[Cichlid-Man]

OK Wait a minute!! You have all of the fish listed in the first thread in a 55G tank (except for the Bettas and Swords)!!!! Your kidding right!! Has anyone notice how over stocked that is??!!?? I added up the inches of fish and it came out 107!!!!! I think that you need to do some rethinking before you start breeding fish. (Im not trying to be rude just leting you know the facts)

And even then cichlids don't fit into the 1" per gal rule.

 

[UP UP AND GUPPY]

Yeah its like 1.5"-2" for cichlids

 

[Cichlid-Man]

Usually for cichlids i would never consider any inches per gallon (Though you must have a certain size tank for certain fish). Rather first look at their territorial needs. Its much different stocking cichlids then other fish.

 

[FishGeek]

But he doesnt just have Cichlids. The majority yeah but still 107" in a 55G tanks is a little much IMO!!!! What kind of filtration do you have???

 

[go_dawgs]

what does IMO mean????? sryoff topic but i read the sticky on abreviations and it wasnt on there

 

[FishGeek]

IMO=In My Opinion

 

[Zman16]

I didn't know what IMO meant either.

 

[silver dollars]

Im goimg to put the breeding fish in a separate tank so that way they won't be desturbed. Im not so sure what kind of filtration i have, but it works perfectly fine. I know my tank is crouded, i made a huge mistake by doing that, thats why im going to raise some money to buy a bigger tank like mabey a 95G or something like that, or i could somehow move the swordtails to my other tanks(55G, and my two 29G) and put the fish in my 55G in the 75G so that way there is more room for them to swim and they can breed in the plants i have in there. I might test the plant thing with my silver dollars and see if they like it enough to eat it or not.

 

[silver dollars]

I might now breed my Blue Rams and keep an eye on the eggs so that way the babies will stay alive.

 

[Pure]

I'm going to take a stab in the dark n say you don't have the right water for breeding blue rams.

 

[silver dollars]

I breed them all the time, it is just that the either the male or the snails eat them:'(, so now i am going to take the male and the female and then kill all of the snails