How to breed fish and what is required?

Question

Well I really want to breed all my fish but first I need to know how! Here is a list of all the fish I have in the tank: Harlequin Rasbora, Yellow Molly, Dalmation Molly, White Molly, Golden Wagtail Platy, Guppies, and Bala Shark! is a huge tank like a 20 or 30 gallon tank really required?? Because I have a 35 gallon tank but all the fish are in there!!! Plus some other baby guppies! I have another tank which is only five gallons! Is it ok to use that one?? Here is a example of a 5 gallon tank: http://www.fishpondinfo.com/photos/fish/tanks/5gallon.jpg
and to I really need a net or trap for breeding my fish?? If you could possibly tell me how to breed all the fish above me it would be great! Please help me I really need all of this! Thankz!!

Answer 1

here is a site with articles on how to breed certain fish
http://fishlesscycling.com/articles.html


It's beeing updatet at least weekly with new species to breed,



hope that helps
good luck


EB

Answer 2

a five gallon tank should be enough for breeding purposes. Mostly try sticking with the livebearers because theya re easy to breed. A guppy for example can have up to 50 babies. If you have a lot of predators in the tank, they would all get eaten.

Need: Tank, Food, Male Livebearer and Female Livebearer.
PATIENCE

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1. Start by designing your tank and laying it out. You should include lots of plants and hiding places.

2. Choose the best and healthiest looking pair. The female should have a fan shaped anal fin and the male would have a pointed one.

3. Place the male and the female fish together in the tank. As soon as your put them together, the male fish would try to impress the female.

4. If you have a chance, get some live food to help them "prepar" [i forgot the word]. It will stimulate the breeding.

5. Now comes the hardest part, waiting. You won't instantly notice if you have a pregnant female. It will take about a week, You would see that her body abdominal area would be getting bigger. The best thing to do now is add another female for a better chance of fry.

6. After about a week, you should start to see a black spot near the anal fin. This black mark indicated that your guppy is pregnant/gravid.

7. When you see the black mark, take out the male and any other fish and leave the female alone. Don't forget to feed her. For a beter chance, you should raise the temperature to about 79F. You should also feed her some live/frozen foods.

8. The gestation period would be about 28 days. A month. You will have to wait that long. After about a month. Your guppy would stop eating, this is totally fine because this is a hormone that makes them not eat. When that happens just leave her alone and wait.

9. The fry should be out of her and let her rest in the main tank where all your other fish is. Your fry should be fed artemia or crushed flake food. Lower the height of the water so they won't waste all the energy.

10. After about 4 months of this you would start to see thier colors. Between their birthing time and the fourth months, their growth speed would depend most on the food and heat your are offering them.
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Follow these instruction and you should be set!

Good Luck! Don't forget to tell me when you have them...e-mail me and send me a guppy! JOKE!

Answer 3

The mollies, platies and guppies are all live bearers and as long as you have males and females, they will breed on their own. Adding aquarium salt to the water will encourage this. I have not personally known of anyone to successfully breed balas or rasboras in their home. Some fish do not spawn in captivity. If you only have a 35 gallon and a five gallon, you are restricted on breeding anything. Your tank sounds pretty stocked as it is, and more fish will only overload your tank. the 5 gallon will be great for babies, but again, you can't overload. Keep in mind that if you are wanting to sell for profit, most pet stores( if they will take your fish at all) will not take the little babies of the above mentioned varieties. The fish will need to be fairly mature
before they will take them. This means you will have to keep them happy and healthy until they are big enough and I do not think that will be possible with the tank sizes you mentioned.

Answer 4

the mollies, platys and guppies will breed without any encouragement, but they will also eat their own fry, so dense planting with something such as java moss is a must so that the newborn fry have something to hide in. you will really need another tank to seperate off these fry to grow, otherwise your tank is going to end up hideously overstocked with sick babies.

breeding harlequin rasboras is hard, and you would need to condition and carefully plan their spawning, it would be impossible in a community tank as any eggs would be immediately eaten.

as for the bala, your tank is too small for this guy. they really need to be in groups, grow to 12" long, they need a 100 gallon+ tank (5-6 feet plus) to thrive.