iam very interested in breeding fishes.. can you tell me what fish is suitable for begginers?

Question

i have a 20 gallon tank... please reccomend a fish that's very EASY to breed...thanks...

can you also tell me how many could fit in my tank??? thanks...

please recommend freshwater fishes... and how can you tell if a fish is pregnant? and also... how small are the baby fishes?

Answer 1

You can have 1 fish per gallon of tank. Guppies are the easiest fish to breed. You want to have 2 females to every male.

Keep a few females with a male. He will impregnate the females. Guppies are usually able to first breed by the age of three months. One mating can fertilize several batches of live-born fry. After breeding, the babies develop over one to two months depending on water temperature and the health of the mother. She can give birth early or delay birth depending on her health and stress level. She can also store sperm for many months to use it later (called superfoetation). It is common for newly bought female guppies to give birth months after being obtained even when kept in a tank devoid of males.

Females have a gravid spot which is a dark spot near their vent. As her young grow, her abdomen will become larger and larger. When you can see a large dark mass near her vent and she appears ready to pop, she is nearing delivering. A female ready to release fry may appear afraid and hide in the plants or dart about the tank. Place her in a breeding box or a small tank by herself with lots of floating and other live plants. Stores sell a number of plastic breeding boxes for guppies. In breeding boxes, the newborns fall below a grate so that the female cannot eat them. Alternatively, provide a lot of plant cover and some fry should survive by hiding. Remove the female to either her normal tank or a small quiet tank to herself after she has finished delivering. Do not keep her in a breeding box for long since the stress can kill her. Do not put her in a breeding box too early or she can have premature birth where many or all fry will die. Feed the newborns prepared fry food (Tetramin for livebearers or Liquifry by Interpet), crushed dry flakes, and/or newborn brine shrimp. If the fry are not provided with cover or protection from the parents, they may be eaten. Guppies typically produce a batch of fry every one to two months

When your female livebearer is big and looks like she's about to (burst) release babies there is the option to move her into another aquarium or put her into a net breeder protect her babies when they spawn, it should be noted that the mother for approximately 12 hours after releasing the babies has a surge of a hormone which results in her not being hungry. While this is an option the difficulty is that often I have found that if I move the female too early she will abort the pregnancy due to stress, the same may happen if you buy a heavily pregnant fish from the fish store and yet you find no babies in your tank. For this reason I have found - perhaps because fry especially from livebears are no longer unusual or special I just leave the adults in my community tank which has a planted corner. I have found that even without removing the babies into an external aquarium/net breeder you'll get some babies which make it to adult hood... unless you've got some really evil fish in there! I have also found the use of large marbles on the floor of the tank to be superb as hiding places for the fry, even so if I wish to save some interesting colour fry or need more fry then I follow the following procedure.

Answer 2

Mollies are easy to breed and very interesting if you mix colours. Livebearers are a good starting point. In a 20 gallon you could have 2 males and 6 females. You will need a hatchery or tank divider to protect the fry until they are big enough to go in with the adults.

Answer 3

livebearers like guppies, swordtails and platies are good, they have live babies, so no need to worry about eggs. They breed like bunnies, i would say 7-10 of these as a total number of fish for ur tank. But u gotta remember that the babys will take up space....so watch out!

Answer 4

Guppies and mollies breed like madmen. They're very easy to take care of and they're durable like all get out. (Just keep your little brother away from the jar of food 'cause the fish are pretty dumb and don't know when to stop eating... especially when he pours the entire thing into the tank. '><) For guppies, make sure you have two females for every one male, and for mollies be sure to have at least three females for every male. Standard fish books tell you to give one gallon of water for one inch of fish, but the smaller guppies and mollies will pretty much thrive well in any amount of water.

Answer 5

i bought 3 platies for my 23 gallon tank and they had babies with in a day , the tank was not even for breeding. I asked the guy at the shop and he said they get pregnant once and have 9 seperate litters of babies so i would recommend them, guppies or swordtails

Answer 6

Guppies they breed like rabbits, no kidding. Allow 1 gallon of water per inch of fish is the basic rule but most allow 1 fish per 2 gallons.

Answer 7

Any small livebearer, guppies, swordtails, or platies. COnvict cichlids get too big for a 20 gallon tank, same with mollies.

10 guppies, platies, or swordtails is enough for a 20 gallon tank.

Answer 8

mollies, guppies, platys, swordtails are all livebearers -- you just have to make sure the babies have a place to go when they pop out because the adults will eat them. get 1 male and 2 females and you will have more fish than you know what to do with in a couple months.

Answer 9

Livebearers are a nicely-liked determination and elementary too yet you do no longer might desire to adhere to Guppies/Platys! The fry from those are close to impossible to discover residences for. I even have some Endlers, purebred non-Guppy crosses, you do no longer discover purebred in puppy shops. and that i also have a team of Black Chin Livebearers, that are with reference to the comparable length of Endlers, slightly larger, and sub-tropical. Neither of those 2 consume their very own fry the two, incredibly no longer in the event that they're saved nicely fed and in densely planted tanks in spite of everything. there are a lot of extra unusual livebearers available too, and turning out to be extra attainable, like Limias and Goodeids. And in case you may particularly have egg-layers, Corydoras and Bristlenose Plecos might nicely be exciting to reproduce!

Answer 10

Rainbow Guppies would be the easiest.

Pick your Males carefully for tail size, shape and colour.

Pick your females for sturdy healthy appearance.

Put lots of plants, floating plants and artificial reef items in the tank. Babies need places to hide till they grow large enough to not be eaten by the others.

Have Fun and Good luck.