Easy to breed: coldwater

[rileyp]

Hi all, I am just wondering about any easy to breed cold water fish.:confused:
If anyone would happen to know an easy to breed cold water fish please post:biggrin:

[bettamuse]

whiteclouds are very easy.

[rileyp]

Thanks for the response I'm looking them up now!
cheers rileyp

[Netto]

I have had my goldfish in a 4ft tank for about 4-5 years and really want to bread them. I'm having absolutely no luck at the moment!

2 reasons I think with me.

1 is that I'm sure 7 out of my 8 goldfish are girls and it needs to be the other way from what I've heard. Bugger

And 2, they want really clean water, I think your supposed to change a little every day, am I right there?????

Plus you need something for them to lay the eggs in so they don't get eaten, that, I also haven't got. But I figure, I have to replace most of my fish to breed so maybe I wont then!!:)

I'm about to start my 1st tropical tank and would love to get live bearers, they bread pretty easy from what I've seen.

Annette

[rileyp]

Annete
We bought some guppies soon after my original post and the day after we put them in the tank at home one of them had 30 babies....
We then syphoned 20 litres of water into a smaller tank and let them grow to a size where they would not be food....
They are now back in the big tank. We have 10 survivors....
Some of them just died... 2 or 3 got white spot so I removed them.
Some of the full size guppies we have bought just died like a day or two after we bought them.
The last few we have bought have been very good and are doing really well
Often when you buy females they are already pregnant. My best tip would be to buy the biggest roundest guppies you can find. The females are much larger than the males and so you will get fry sooner!

[Batty]

platys and swordtails are good tropical breeders too they don't eat their offspring

[dami3nz]

my platies seem to eat their offspring. even the younger fry attack the new borns

[Batty]

Maybe I'm thinking of Mollies then - I'm getting old and my memory is not what it was :)

[Netto]

Yea, I was just gonna go a small tank of guppies until I can build a pond and put the goldfish in there. I can't have anything too big cos my house is too small and the tank I have here already is taking up so much space, my husband hates it but I refuse to get rid of it.......in fact I want heaps more!!!! lol
My friend bought 4 guppies and one had fry within a week of buying them, and they weren't getting eaten because they had plenty of places to hide, soooo cute.

Does anyone know what the gestation time is for guppies.
Do these mollies breed really easy too?
What is the better beginner tropical fish?
OOOO....all these questions!!! I'd rather get info from experienced people rather than reading crap on the internet that is continuously conflicing so you never know what to believe.

[Netto]

Oops, soory, got too much onto tropical then and we're supposed to be talkin bout coldwater!! Got carried away!! lol

[rileyp]

I now have had guppies for about 2 months
gestation period of guppies is 4- 6 weeks
One of mine had fry the day after purchase. 10 of the fry are still growing well.
The first tropical fish that we bought were guppies and tetras.
The first 3 guppies we purchased all died. I think we didn't acclimatize them properly.
We also have 3 platy's. We also have 2 golden sucking catfish... awesome for keeping everything clean!
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[Netto]

Have those catfish got really wide heads? And are they brown? If thats them, I've seen those and I'd like to get a couple of those too.

[Batty]

I have added some (5) white cloud mountain minnows to my cold water tank, they are supposed to be very easy to keep and breed. Don't know if the Cherry shrimp will eat any eggs though.