Best egg laying fish to breed

I was looking into doing a breeding project in a smaller tank, probably 10 to 15 gallons. I have only bred and raised livebearers, and i was looking into maybe breeding some kind of egg layer. possibly killifish or something. If anyone has any breeding ideas, plus tips on fry care and making the fish breed, that would be awesome.

 

Dwarf cichlids.

 

Mark's Aquatics on YouTube has a bunch of videos on breeding and raising different egg laying fish, go to his Playlist section and you'll see them. It's not comprehensive by any means but it will give you some ideas. MARK'S AQUATICS

 

Killifish are definitely fun and very easy. I have eggs about to hatch right now an easy egg scatterer is zebra danios and cpds. A fun challenge that im working on is neon tetras, but any tetra is pretty much the same. I made this video about my neons:

Ive always wanted to breed gourami too but thats pretty difficult

 

The easiest I think are White Cloud Mountain Minnows and most Danios Like zebra,pearl,leopard

 

Mark's Aquatics on YouTube has a bunch of videos on breeding and raising different egg laying fish, go to his Playlist section and you'll see them. It's not comprehensive by any means but it will give you some ideas. MARK'S AQUATICS

I enjoy his channel a lot! He's so laid back a friendly. Hehe

 

I am currently obsessed with apistogramma (a type of dwarf cichlids). Starting off with apistogramma cacatuoides. Fantastic little fish but definitely do your research first.

 

I enjoy his channel a lot! He's so laid back a friendly. Hehe

I agree I like him a lot too.
I’ve always wanted to try Apistogramma’s! Now I’m jealous

 

Oh, corydoras are great too. I wish I had space/money to start breeding mine. As it is, they are all in community tanks so if they do spawn, nothing survives.

 

I agree I like him a lot too.
I’ve always wanted to try Apistogramma’s! Now I’m jealous

I am sooooo excited!! Everyone around me is getting really tired of hearing about it. Lol I've had a little female for a few months now. I finally got to pick up more on friday. I got a massive adult male, a spunky juvenile female and 2 juvenile males. They were hard to sex in the lfs. I was pretty positive about the dominant male and the female, but had hoped the 2nd male would be a 2nd female. Watching them in QT though, its def a subdominent male. It works out ok though, because the adult male is so massive I'm having 2nd thoughts about putting him with my original female. She is maybe 1.5 inches max and he is close to 4 inches. I may just pair her with one of the new juvies instead and put the big beasty in a community tank for the time being. He is a stunning thing! I also got a female macmasteri from a local fish keeper friday and she is pretty too. All in various quarantine set ups in my kitchen for now. I'm about ready to take a chair in there so I can just sit and watch them. Lol

 

There is tons of great options out there. Cichlids are a great fish to breed personally I LOVE plecos so I have a BN pleco set up going right now. Just depends really on your set up plans. Some fish are easier than others and require specific set ups.

 

Nobody mentioned German Blue Rams I breed mine in 10 gallon tanks only thing is I have remove the eggs and raise them myself they tend to eat them
don't buy from LFS find a breeder much better stock this is one of my long fins

 

Nobody mentioned German Blue Rams I breed mine in 10 gallon tanks only thing is I have remove the eggs and raise them myself they tend to eat them View attachment 705745don't buy from LFS find a breeder much better stock this is one of my long fins

Yesterday’s spawn. . .

 

i have a pair of apisto panduro, but i don’t know if they will breed in my community tank.

 

Do yours raise them or eat them mine are 1 1/2 years old they can't get them past a week I keep them in their own room

 

has anyone bred killies before? i might try that.

 

Are you looking for fish to breed in your community tank or are you looking to set up a breeding set up, that may change a lot of options

 

Are you looking for fish to breed in your community tank or are you looking to set up a breeding set up, that may change a lot of options

i’m looking to set up a new tank

 

Do yours raise them or eat them mine are 1 1/2 years old they can't get them past a week I keep them in their own room

Until almost 2 weeks ago, I had MANY unsuccessful spawns, wigglers and swimmers.

I pulled some on day 1 of free swimming and have them in a breeder box in the same tank.

 

Mine go into a bare 10 with a sponge filter I feed baby brine shrimp and crushed flakes water change day is a pain on 7 10 gallon tanks

 

Convict cichlids! Guaranteed fry no hassle or your money back! I'm not even lying they're that reliable.

 

i’m trying to keep it to a ten to fifteen gallon

 

Mine go into a bare 10 with a sponge filter I feed baby brine shrimp and crushed flakes water change day is a pain on 7 10 gallon tanks

I have a 15 gallon on the way.

 

has anyone bred killies before? i might try that.

Me. Its really easy. I have a gardneri killie pair. Just guve them a spawning mop and plenty of eggs will be layed. Only negative is they take quite a while to hatch unlike tetras. But they accept bbs from birth which is great

 

Me. Its really easy. I have a gardneri killie pair. Just guve them a spawning mop and plenty of eggs will be layed. Only negative is they take quite a while to hatch unlike tetras. But they accept bbs from birth which is great

do they need to be put in peat moss out of water?

 

do they need to be put in peat moss out of water?

They can do but for my gardneris and some.otgwr species they can just be left to develop in water. Its faster in water too.

 

They can do but for my gardneris and some.otgwr species they can just be left to develop in water. Its faster in water too.

what other species can be left in water?

 

what other species can be left in water?

Fundulopanchax killies. Theres multiple, gardneri are just one of them

 

Are there any annual species that are easy to breed?

 

Are there any annual species that are easy to breed?

Havent kept annual species. I prefer to keep a fish like the gardneri that live for 5 years

 

white cloeds mt minnos or cory catfish or cribensis cichlids

 

I am currently obsessed with apistogramma (a type of dwarf cichlids). Starting off with apistogramma cacatuoides. Fantastic little fish but definitely do your research first.

Ah man, they had a gorgeous flame yellow pair at the LFS last I went. I almost picked them up but I just have never kept them and wasn't sure if they'd remotely work with my GBRs.