What is the easy fish to breed?

Question

i want to start breeding fish what is the easy fish to breed

Answer 1

The very easiest are the livebearers. They are easiest in this order - guppies (you can't fail). Mollies - (add a tiny bit of sea salt to the water and they'll do better but they are a little touchier than guppies, swordfish, and platys (which seem to have a higher baby mortality than the others).

Of the egg layers - like the other poster said, zebra danios are easy. If you want something really interesting, get some dwarf ram cichlids, let them pair up, and isolate a couple in a tank. I got a couple of them to breed when I was about 16. They are willing and eager as long as you keep them healthy, keep the temps stable, and feed them really good food. I mean - stuff besides flakes (dried blood worms, frozen brine shrimp, etc.)

Good luck
Kevin

Answer 2

The easy easy and fastist kind of fish to breed would have to be guppies there whole mateing cycle pregnancy cycle and birthcycle all calculate out to be almost abot 5-6 weeks .... Thats with mateing witch would be as soon as they meet.. and then pregnancy and all that... Just make suer that after the female has babbies... YOu keep her in a seperate tank or the male will chase her to death... The Other welll... I guess they are kind fish... water snails are both male and female so all you need is to snails and your off.. They multiply SOOOOOO fast its not funny.

Answer 3

guppies are good as they are quick to have babies, but they die within 2 days oof rhe birth...

platies are good, althoguh it takes thema while to start of but from then on, it's alright

mollies, same as the guppies, but thety are more likely to eat the babies than the other 2

swordtails-they are good too, but are even mroe likely to eat the babies

live beares are the way to go for beginners.

they basically have the babes, they hide, you catch them and put them in a breeding net/box

get a plastic bag and opiut in some fish flakes int he corner, crush them up until just bigger than a powder. Use a wet toothpick (with awurium water) and put it in the powder. Then put that covered toothpick in the breeding net/box. Make sure they see it but it will take a couple of days for them to see the food

at around 1-2 months, you can even try frozen blood worms, and when they are bigger (not as big, but bigger) than the size of the biggest fishes mouth (usually 1-2 months) you can put them with the parents, but be carefull...

livebearers are fun to breed but zebra danios are easy to breed as well

you need 2 tanks though

1 that is smaller with marbles in stead of gravel

but the male and femlae in the tank with the marbles (males are thin and sleek while females are plump and round full of eggs) leave them in there for around 2 days, they will chase each other, but they are spawning so don't worry

after 2 days, but the parentsin the other tank and on the 3rd day, you may be abele to see some little 1 mm baby fish. at around 4-5 days they will be freely swimming but will cling onto the walls

feed these ones liquid food which contains little micro-organisms that we can't see but the baby fish can eat

ps-the marbles are so the eggs fall through the cracks so the preants can't eat them

i haven't tried danios, but i am planning to when i sell my baby guppies ad platies

Answer 4

You might of getting your self live bearers like mollies and guppies. Try to get tough fishes. Mollies and guppies are tough and easy to breed . In fact I have a aquarium in which I have a Mollie pregnant. Try not to get egg layer because they need special care. But you can try getting Angel Fish because they form a bond bee tween them and when they breed they protect there eggs. But in angel fish you have to get at least 10 fish to get a couple of breeding pair(as you can not sex them). So until you have a Aquarium of about 75 gallon avoid Angel, but you can still try guppies. Don't try to breed golds because for them you need cement tank and a lot of greenery. So think of getting Guppies and mollies. My uncle bought two pairs of mollies and within a year he has at least 50 mollies.
While breeding any fish try to have a good male female ratio. So that your females a have happy life. A male female ratio of about 1 male For 2/3 females will do
When the fries arrive you have to get a separate aquarium for them.And take extra care for them. You have to devote time to your fishes. Breeding is a time consuming but rewarding experience. So Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

Guppies and convict cichlids. You can't keep either from breeding if you have both males and females. But you might have a hard time finding homes for all the fry that will be produced.

Answer 6

guppies are easy fish to breed

Answer 7

Live bearers, the breed just fine all by themselves very often. They are really hardy too.

Guppies, Mollies, Platies.. to name a few.


Good luck and I hope you have a plan for where all those babies will go.

Answer 8

guppies can't fail huh i have to try that anyway i say convicts they won't stop breeding and you can easily tell male from female females has alot of color males grow a nuchal hump and are bigger than the females.

Answer 9

Mollies..

Any time I bought mollies one or more of them was ALWAYS pregnant.. and no eggs to deal with.. (I'd suggest having an extra tank for the babies though.. those nets don't help much because the babies will eat each other.. )

Answer 10

Guppies and black mallies are easy to breed.