Breeding Tips

a few hours ago, I posted a thread asking about fish that are easy to breed. I spent the next few hours researching fish I'd be interested in breeding, and came up with panda cories, bettas, guppies (a good, expensive strain and I'd regulate the fry amount), and celestial pearl danios. To any of those that are breeding or have bred these fish, do you have any tips?

I want to know three things:
1. Grow out tank sizes
2. Fry diets
3. Any recommended betta colors or guppy strains to look for?

 

I wouldn't recommend breeding bettas until you have plenty of experience keeping them, have bred other egg layers, and have everything planned out, cost, housing, feeding, etc. They shouldn't be considered easy to breed as they aren't.

 

You will need live food so start looking into daphnia, moina, microworms and grindal worm cultures. All the info is available on the internet really so it wouldnt make much sense to us to reinvent the wheel and write everything here.
I really like this article by Ian Fuller (corydoras expert)

 

As far as food, a relatively decent alternative for feeding fry if you can't obtain live food is instant brine shrimp fry:

I have platy, guppy, molly, and cichlid fry, all of which go nuts over this stuff.

 

Try breeding guppies. They're easy to breed easy to feed and if you get a pure line, they're easy to sell