Can anyone help me with bredding my fish and should i bredd mollies or guppies or another???? please help me !

Question

i seriuosly need help with what kind of fish i should breed and what i need to breed them please help me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

I would suggest you get a swordtail. Guppies dont have very much babies in a litter. (20-40) They have babies every three weeks or so and you end up with too many babies at different ages which may result in bullying. I have never bred mollies or platyies just because they're boring. They have no characteristics. Just thei colors. Guppies have beautiful tails and the male swordtails have awesome swordtails. Not just that, when you would like to resell the fry stores offer you more $ for guppies and swordtails.Anyways...to help you with what you need.

Ok. I suggest you get a ten gallon tank, a one gallon tank, and a
2 1/2 gallon. Ok heres why... your ten gallon tank will hold yht type of fish you like along with the pregnant fish. When you think its about time for the fish to have babies you should move it to the one gallon tank. Youll know when its time for the mom to have babies bcuz she wont bother eating, she'll hide under grass, and she'll get realy nervous when you tap the glass. In the one gallon tank you must include all the plants (fake or real) posssible. Any hiding spots and small stones and gravel will be good for the fry. Once the fish has had all the fry take the fish out immediantly! For some livebearers are cannabilistic. Next, transfer the fry from the one gallon tank to the two gallon tank but make sure there is no gravel, plants, or any hiding places! Just a bare tank! Feed them cooked egg yolk (very small peices), and crushed flake mixed with crushed bloodworms. Remove the contents of the one gallon tank (including the gravel) and place it aside. Watch your fry grow in the next few weeks... At about a month old all livebearers become sexually active! You must seperate them or the babies will start having babies when they mature! This is when you get a magnifying glass and look for a dark gravid spot on the females and you look for a gonopodium on the male. Transfer all the males to the one gallon tank and keep the females in the 2 1/2 gallon tank!

Heres some more info on breeding livebearers in general...

http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/breeding/Livebearers/index.html

http://www.aquariumfish.nsinternet.com/platy.html

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Breeding-Livebearers---Guppies-and-Swordtails/57643

http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/breeding_tropical_fish

Answer 2

the easiest fish to breed are guppies, plates, mollies, and sword tails. all of which are live bearers. this means they can have live young. also each one of these species can have up to a hundred or more with the black mollies having up to 300 fry. all you need to breed them is a male and female of one species and a breeding trap. place them in a tank with the breeding trap hanging or floating ( depends on what kind you buy) in the water. if you notice the female has a large body then move her to the breeding trap and wate till she gives birth.also guppies, platies, sword tails, and mollies al give birth about every 28 days or so. when you see babies whate at least a day before tranfering the female bak into the main tank. feed the young powdered food until they are about half an inch long. when they are nine weeks old you can transfer them back to the main tank.

Answer 3

Livebearers are very easy to breed. All you need to do, really, is put males and females together in a clean, warm fishtank, with good food, and they'll do the rest.
The common livebearers are: guppies, mollies, platies and swordtails.
How big a tank can you have? If your tank is 5-15 gallons, you can go with guppies or platies, both of which grow to 1-2" long. If your tank is 20 gallons or more, you can go with mollies or swordtails, which grow to 3-4".

Make sure that you get 2 females for every male. Males will harass the females so you need a bunch of females. This also means more babies.

So, get your tank. 10 gallons is fine, and you'll want a good light fixture, some gravel, a heater (set it to 78F) and a hang off the back filter (wrap a nylon sock around the filter intake so no babies get sucked up). Fill it with clean, dechlorinated water. Be sure to CYCLE your tank first (google: Fishtank Nitrogen Cycle). Then go to the petstore and choose your fish. In a 10 gallon tank you could have:
1 male and 2 female guppies AND 1 male and 2 female platies, OR 2 males and 5 females of either platies or guppies.

You will also need cover for the babies, as the parents will eat the babies. I like to use a lot of plants. If you can, get a tank with a fluorescent bulb you can grow plants, and get lots of java moss and java fern and guppy grass. The babies will hide in there long enough for you to take them out and put them in another tank to raise them. If you can't take them out, most of them will be eaten, but some may survive.

I noticed someone mentioned water parameters such as pH, water hardness, etc. It's never a bad idea to get a testing kit and test your water, but guppies and platies etc are so easy, and tap water is usually just fine, so you really don't need to worry about it too much.

Make sure you do weekly water changes for 20-30% to keep the water clean, feed them a good quality flake food, and they will breed for you in no time.

Good luck and have fun :)

Answer 4

If you are unexperienced in breeding guppies would be the way to go. Make sure you have at least three females to every male in the tank.

The easiest way to breed is the natural way. Make sure there is lots of plants (real or fake) in the aquarium for the fry to hide in, and just let nature take it's course. Don't remove any of the fish, at any time. Some of the fry will live.

When you mess around with changing tanks, and breeding tanks, you stress out the mothers and the babies. And even a small difference in temp and ph could kill all your fry.

Eaiest way, just have males and females and you will get babies.

Answer 5

Any particular reason? You seem desparate for fry. Pick yourself up a book about breeding live bearers or search it on the web. So long as you have a heated tank and a filter, guppies, mollies and platys will just reproduce like rabbits.

Which ones depends on the reason for breeding them.

Answer 6

I think mollies are the easier choice. They too come in varying colors and you may chose from the standard, the sailfin, or the lyretails (my favorite). Mollies are livebearers so if you are breeding to add more fish to your community make sure you have a breeder cup or net or better yet a smaller tank for your new fry because both mom and dad will eat their young.

Answer 7

The easiest way to begin breeding fish is to match the fish to the water chemistry that you have. If you have a source of soft water with a slightly low pH,some of the South American fishes can be real easy,(Commercially produced angelfish or convict cichlids). If your water is moderately hard,with a more or less neutral pH,then Guppies or other live bearing fish will thrive and breed. If your water is quite hard (above 425 ppm),with a high pH(8.3 or so) then the Africn Rift Lake Cichlids will be easy to breed(especially the mouth brooders). There are a lot of different ways to go, but letting the water chemistry choose the fish will free you up to take care of the other things involved in breeding fish,(for instance,live foods to bring your fish to peak condition,or extra water changes to keep the water quality pristine,or learnig how to raise the fry to maturity. You have alot of things to learn,but it can be a great amount of fun,and very rewarding. I just thought of one more thing ,spending time just observing the fish can be very important,and be patient. Best of luck,PeeTee

Answer 8

GUPPIES!

They come in so many more different colors!

Get you a few tanks with all the extras (filters, heaters ect.)

You need 2 to 3 females per male. They will do the rest.
I would get a few breeding nets.

Keep one tank open and ready for baby's.
Figure out what type of fry food your going to use and get it.

Most of the time when you buy females they are already preggo!

When they get ready to have baby's their belly's get a square look to it!

Answer 9

guppies are easy to breed. for best results have 3 females at least to every one male. make sure the tank is well planted and there is somewhere the female can retreat to once she has given birth.

Answer 10

I know some one that has guppies and they say that they are the easy ones when it comes to breeding.