how muck mony will it cost me to breed guppies or angle fish?

Question

I have a 10 gallon tank for the fry of guppies or angle fish and a 20 gallon tank for the adults to live in

Answer 1

Stick with guppies. Considering that you can't spell Angelfish, I don't think that you're ready for the work involved in breeding them. Plus, 20 gallons is too small to breed angelfish.
Guppies are much, much easier, less work, and cheaper, becaues you don't need to hatch baby brine shrimp. Just get your tank running and cycled, heated to about 78F, and get your guppies. In a 20 gallon tank, if you have guppies only, you could go with 4 males and 10 females. You can get a breeding net for the females, when they look ready to have their fry.

The 10 gallon should be set up the same way. Get a small filter for it, too, and you can wrap a nylon sock around the filter intake so the babies don't get sucked up. You can put lots of java moss around the tank for the babies to hide in. You can feed them plain old flake food, just smush it up between your fingers, first. Don't feed them too much, and feed them at least twice a day.

Do weekly water changes on both tanks to keep the water clean.

Answer 2

The angels get incredibly agressive while they breed male and lady alike so your guppies probably gets attacked and die from stress, in accordance on your tank length and the placement the angels laid their eggs. Guppies they are going to continually! breed haha loopy fishes, yet yeah guppies don't have a project count breeding. The guppy Fry would get eaten by ability of ability of the angels on an identical time as they are born despite the fact that. All in all i do no longer advise conserving guppies and Angels on an identical time.

Answer 3

as long as you have both male and female of both fish, it costs nothing more

i would personally put the guppies in the 10 gallon tank and keep the angels in the 20

or the guppies will end up being dinner for the angel fish

Answer 4

put male and two female guppies together you will soon have fish you may want to separate babies tho cos mother n father will eat them angels not easy to breed.not very expensive for nursery and fry food for guppy babies.under £7 for both

Answer 5

Guppies are the simplest cheepest fish to breed and care for. I had them for feeder fish and they just kept breeding and breeding.

Answer 6

Not much at all for the guppies (stick with those) Here's what you need to do:

Breeding guppies really is just as simple as most people say it is but if you really want to be serious about it there are a few considerations.

Tank requirements: You need to have two tanks at least 10 gallons in size. The first one should be cycled and all settled ready for your new guppies. The second should be filled with water and have a sponge filter running. It should also gave a heater and lots of hiding places for the babies. Set up both tanks and keep the temperature in both about 74-78 F, guppies will do well in that range. pH, hardness and other water conditions are not very important to guppies. They tolerant a very wide range of parameters.

Feeding: For the adults you need to feed a good basic flake food as well as the occasional treat of frozen foods. Buy a couple of them to swap between, blood wroms, mosquito larvae, brine shrimp are all good. For the babies you need baby brine shrimo to feed for the first few days and some cruches flake to start mixing in after that. Yes, you can just crush the flake you use for the adults.

The Fish: Get 1 male for every 2-3 females. No need to get many, after all you expect to breed plenty! Most you find at pet stores will already be pregnant so if you are really serious about getting just the right color you will need to by from a serious breeder or be prepared to work at it a while.

The mating: Just put them together and they will do the rest.

Once the female is very gravid (pregnant) move her to the empty tank and leave her there until she has the babies. Once she has them you can more her back to the main tank. Feed the babies fairly often, 4-5 times a day isn't too often and change 40 - 50% of the tank water every 2-3 days. The larger the babies get the more often you will have to change water until the babies are adults.

Raising the babies: Feed the babies fairly often, 4-5 times a day isn't too often and change 40 - 50% of the tank water every 2-3 days. The larger the babies get the more often you will have to change water until the babies are adults. Install a tank divider in the baby tank as soon as possible and once you can tell males from females start to seperate them. Most serious breeders end up using two tanks, so you might want to plan on that in the future. Seperate them as soon as possible! Also do not give up on the water changes! They are critical for proper growth! I cannot stress this enough!

Culling: Culling is removing undesirable fish from your stock. Remove any deformed fish you see as soon as you see them. It's not uncommon to have a few deformed fish. Humanely kill these as you certainly don't want them breeding. Once the babies are nearly grown you will be able to pick out the best looking male and best lookig females. This is where color choice comes in. You will most likely have fish of two or three different colors. Return you original fish and the extra babies to the pet store or donate them to another fish keeper, to a school, whatever. Place your best male and three best females in the now empty main tank. and let them do what come naturally. Then you will start the whole process over.

While you are raising the babies, you will have babies from one of the other females too if not both of them. You will have to choose, set up another tank for them or leave them with the adults to do as well as they can. Your call. As you can see, you could end up with tanks all over the house in no time at all, so be aware you can't keep them all! LOL

After a few generations you will need to add fresh breeding stock to your line. Try to find a really good looking male that fits your colors and breed him to some of your females for fresh genes in the line. Doing this every so often will improve your fish and prevent problems from too much inbreeding. Inbreeding fixes traits in the line, both good traits and bad traits, so bring in new stock from time to time.

If you really fall in love with guppy breeding you will really want to be a member of the IFGA (International Fancy Guppy Association). They can teach you so much more than this basic over view and the members are a great source of really superior breeding stock. You can find their website online.

Hope this helps a little and good luck with your breeding efforts!

MM

Answer 7

they cost only like 20cents. or $1.20

go to petco.com