fish breeding??

Question

what r the best fish 2 breed??
what do i need 2 breed fish??
is it easy 2 breed fish??
how do i know what sex the fish r??
and anything else i need 2 know about breeding fish??
thanks guys n gals

Answer 1

Hi Sarah, Fish that are "Live-Breeders" are the easiest, since their young are born "Live" vs in an Egg. Egg breeders are a bit harder, since you have to have a special type of Tank for the Eggs and usually either just the Mom or Dad with the Eggs to hatch. Some examples of "Live-Breeders" are Black Mollies, Sword-tails, or Guppies. I try to breed Siamese Fish, known as "Fighting Fish" which is not at all true, they are usually the most Docile of all.

Answer 2

First person's right, livebearers are probably the easiest and most prolific breeders. Guppies, mollies, platies, swordtails. To sex them, the females on their belly, their anal fin will be triangular, on a male it looks like a long tube called a gonopodium(sp).
This picture, is a male molly. See the tube thing going towards the back tail?

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=1066&N=0

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=1058&N=0

This one's pretty good, the orange one on the bottom is a female platy-notice the bottom fin is triangle shaped, the one on the top and right are male, the one on the left hard to tell, but looks female.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=1067&N=0

To breed them, I'd recommend getting a ratio of 1 male to 3 females. If you go 1:1, the male will hound the female non stop and exhaust her while she tries to get away.

You also need to figure out what you're going to do with the babies afterwards. The fish will all keep on breeding, and your tank will end up overstocked. Maybe try to find a fish store that will take them and possibly give you some store credit as payment. Or, get a really large tank, and seperate them male and female after a few breedings. But, I believe livebearers can store the sperm for a month or so, for when they're ready to "get pregnant". So if you've decided no more, they might say yes we are lol....

Answer 3

Among tropical fishes, Siamese Fighter, Angel, zebra, chinese paradise are a few that lay eggs .. though each of these vary in how they build nests... siamese fighter and chinese paradise build bubble nests in the corners of fish tanks and the males look after the brood...
the angels lay eggs on leaves... and the zebra fishes just drop them on the sand..

Guppies, sword tails, mollies(moon tail etc) give birth to live young .. these are the easiest to breed .. you can seperated the young fry and they will grow on their own...


knowing the sex of the fish can be a little tricky but it comes thru experience...
among the guppies and mollies there are physical differences.. the males are always smaller, more colourful , have much larger fins... the fins below thier belly also differ.. the females have a fin while the male has its breeding organs there :)...

Among angels, you really cant make out much difference until they start breeding ...

siamese fighters can be distinguished by the size of their fins... the males have really colourful and large fins while the females dont...

Fishes bred on live food(worms or meat) tend to breed more frequently ...

Answer 4

Hey Sarah,

That's almost a loaded question :)

Sopme of the very easiest fish to breed are the egg laying minnows like White Clouds, Zebra Danios and Leapord Danios, BUT...... it's harder to raise the babies from those fish than some others.

There are many fish that are easy to breed and it's pretty easy to raise the babies. Probably the best fish to start with are livebearers like guppies, swordtails, mollies and platys. Of those I would suggest guppies because it's so easy to tell when the female is pregnant.

It's really simple to tell a male from a female with livebearers. The males usually are more colorful and have larger fins and the females are less colorful but larger than the males, but the best way to tell for sure is to look at the bottom fin. The females have a normal fin under their belly while the males fin is a long thin tube that points to his tail.

To breed guppies successfully you don't really need that much, but it's best to have some basic equipment. You do need two tanks to do the best of it. One is your regular community tank where the guppies live. The other is a small tank, like a 10 gallon or so that you can put the female in when she is about to have babies. It will need a small quite filter, like a sponge filter, a heater and plenty of hiding places for the babies. The hiding placces can be loads of plastic plants or you can make bushy mops of yarn. Just wrap the yarn around a big book about 20 times and cut it off the roll. Then tie a peice around the bottom and cut them apart at the top of the book. Voila, you have a "spawning mop" Boil it to get out the extra dye and to make it sink. You can make it float by tieing it to a piece of styrofoam cup.

When you get your guppies, tell the people at the store you want to breed them and you want one male and 2-3 females, they can help you pick them out. If they can't, you are in the wrong store! Find a store where they can help you with this. Get your fish home and take care of them like you normally would. The female will start to get extra fat and will get a dark spot on her belly when she is pregnant. When she really looks like she's ready to pop, put her in the breeding tank by herself. Soon enough she will have the babies. When she is done you need to put her back in the main tank and leave the babies in the breeding tank. The babies are pretty big (for baby fish) and can eat ground up flake food from the very first day. I would suggest you feed them live or frozen baby brine shrimp though, it's much better for them and you can get it from the pet store either as frozen baby brine or as eggs you can hatch yourself to feed to the fish.

Keep the tank with the babies extra clean and do lots of water changes. You can change about half the water evey other day and that would be good. The babies will grow pretty fast if you feed them several times a day and keep the water really, really clean.

That's the very basics you will need to know to get started, but I would suggest you look for a beginners guide to breeding fish for lots more information that you will eventually need. Go ahead and by the book(s), the information is worth the price.

Best of luck in starting breeding fishes!!

Answer 5

Guppys are easy to breed and there livebearers and there easy to sex.

http://guppyplace.tripod.com/Breeding.html

Answer 6

Giant Damols , they are ciclids and are very good parents. they are stripped and also come in solid white.there live bearers and protive of there young.
Good Luck