fun and easy fish to breed

[danimallaminad]

Hey I'm thinking of trying to breed a fish, just wondering whats the easiest but fish to breed. I know there is no true "easy" fish but just which ones aren't the hardest haha. Thanks for any tips. Also if you suggest a fish can you describe a setup. Thanks in advance

 

[frizzo98]

Clownfish are supposed to be easy but you are going to need a large setup with multiple tanks. Banggai cardinals are probably the easiest because their baby's are larger then other species. They also only need a tank for the parents and on tank for the baby's to grow up in. But if you cannot set up another tank you can put the baby's in a mesh box that they sell at the big name pet stores until they get big enough to sell or move to your main tank.

 

[Wilrok]

Get a pair of clownfish , feed them and keep them happy and they will produce but then you will need rotifers and a grow out tank .

 

[MAVX]

Saltwater Mollies

 

[JustinGr]

Saltwater Mollies

:bigeyes:

Yes, that is true.

 

[Mazzy]

Just something to note: Now I haven't bred saltwater so maybe they don't fall along the same lines but I believe they do - once a pair of fish start breeding, they BREED!!! They breed, and breed, and breed.... and unless you've got something that's gonna eat all those unwanted babies it just becomes a pain to deal with. If you have a LFS that is looking for local clowns to stock their store then that's awesome, but if not, it honestly just becomes a pain to find some way to 'use up' all those fry. Maybe set up a new tank and purchase a trigger along with the pair of clowns - for future 'population control'.

 

[billsreef]

The breeding part is easy, but raising larval marine fish takes a lot of work. So even with breeding fish, you only end up with lots of baby fish if put in the work to raise them. No danger of ending up with lots of unwanted babies...unless of course you do the Mollies

 

[Mazzy]

Oh that's good then! Breeding clowns should be a fun adventure with that being the case. I remember when my Brichardis (Tanganikan Africans) started breeding; littlest fish in the tank and living beside Compressiceps (eye eaters, huge mouths, all the better to swallow prey with) and an 8" Frontosa. But those stupid little things bred and that was it; they ruled the tank. Poor Dante le Fronte couldn't even come out of his flower pot for fear of those wicked parents guarding their eggs and eventually their fry. At first it was cool. Then it was "well... maybe some of this batch will get eaten", and then "well... maybe some will get sucked up in the filtration," and finally I was on forums posting "free Brichardis; as many as you can take! - including the parents!" LOL