Have you bred fish before?

How many of you have bred your fish or have plans to do so?

 

Many many years ago I bred Bettas, Gouramis and zebra danios. Caring for them became more work and less fun so I stopped doing it.

3 months ago Elbert my male Bristle nose pleco and Evelyn my female super red pleco blessed me with about 50 fry. Someday I will allow Little Red my male super red and Evelyn breed but I won't put them together until I am sure I can find homes for the fry I already have.

I have rescued some cory eggs before they all got eaten. I don't purposely breed the corys. I just let them do their thing and occasionally save a few eggs.

 

I may have breed a fish or two once or twice ...
IMO it is much more fun to raise fish then just keep them ,but as mentioned you need to have a place to send all these little fish ...

 

Close to 3 years ago I started with 3 guppies 2 females and a male and close to 3 years later I have ummmm a pretty lot... Not sure it counts as breeding seeing you basically buy a female guppy and it comes with a lifetime supply of fry . I also have taken some cory cat eggs and turned them from the eggs into a beautiful school in my 20 long. I have never seen such a clean sand bottom for the amount of fish in there... It's actually one of my lighter stocked tanks

 

Had Angel fish, Convicts, Firemouths and tried to do Oscars but they are really hard to do. I did Mollies and Swordtails before that to sort of wet my feet as it were. Never plan to try that again. I have all males in my current tank and don't plan to add any females to this tank. My breeding days are over!

 

I would like to breed Gourami in the future and i've thought about GBRs but I feel Gourami would be the passion project.
I wouldn't count MY endeavors with Livebareres as I had no part in the process, I do like that my only Guppy I currently have is one that I "raised", again I had very little to do, as a matter of fact I attempted to feed her to my Hill Trout, so I guess it's in spite of my efforts I guess.

 

Depends how you define it. I have had plenty of livebearer and mystery snail babies. But it basically takes more work to NOT get babies from those. XD A majority of my breeding experience is with snakes and lizards.

 

Sometimes on purpose and other times unintentionally. Bettas, mollies, guppies, swords, corys, angels, discus, rams and Apistos. This is over 50 years keeping aquariums.

 

Gonna vote yes just because I have livebearers

 

No, but I need help my tiger barbs are breeding and I don't know what to do they are doing mating dances and I did some research they lay up to 200 eggs, so I'm in a pickle and the only spare tanks I have is a 29 gallon and a 10 gallon also a 1 gallon quarantine

 

No, but I need help my tiger barbs are breeding and I don't know what to do they are doing mating dances and I did some research they lay up to 200 eggs, so I'm in a pickle and the only spare tanks I have is a 29 gallon and a 10 gallon also a 1 gallon quarantine

Add bushy plants for fry to shelter, but chances are most eggs and fry will be eaten. In the parent tank you will be very lucky to get even a couple surviving

 

Technically yes, but it's usually on accident. Of course, my cherry shrimp won't breed even though I'm actually trying to get them to...

 

Yes, unintentionally (Yellow Lab Mbuna, Dragon Blood Peacock, and Mystery Snails, all of which I no longer own).

 

I don't think guppies count.

 

Breeding boesemanI rainbows right now. Fry take some time but they almost look like fish now after 7 weeks

 

CPD breeding, Rams and Praecox rainbows, Plecos all on my future breeding list.

 

Lots of accidental and deliberate breeding efforts on my part. Fish I deliberately bred include black paradise fish, banded bushfish (which got to two months old and then all died of an ammonia spike...not a fun lesson on the need to cull or rehome excess fry), and Persian killifishes (I only got three fry the first attempt, but those fry bred when they were only the size of my fingernail and produced eight more fry). Fishes that I bred accidentally or as a colony include Parosphromenus 'sentang' licorice gouramies, regular paradise fish, platies, zebra danios, and the aforementioned persian killifishes (the latter two as eggs that hitchhiked on plants). I am hesitant to purchase a fish if I will not be able to readily spawn/rear them, which has hindered my desire to try out marine tanks.

 

How many of you have bred your fish or have plans to do so?

My Cichlids breed, all my fish have bred. But the only time I/we (my brother and I) bred fish on purpose was when I was a kid and we lived in San Diego. We had multiple tanks. He was in a school for gifted students and was always doing experiments with fish. So we needed lots of live bearers. He also bred tetras (several kinds) and discus.

 

How many of you have bred your fish or have plans to do so?

I didn't plan on breeding but currently have around 40 two week old ram fry I've hatched and raised away from the community and their parents out of necessity - so far all good. My smaller male and female bn plecs had a few offspring but they were eaten by female bettas before I realised they were there. My pair of common clown fish in the reef tank are also getting ready to lay - unexpectedly busy here!

Thanks again for the advice coralbandit, the little guys are doing great so far

 

I have bred snails since the first week I got them. I thought I would never breed fish, but when I moved my CPD's into the 20-gallon tank with other fish, I noticed one fry. A couple of days later I noticed 3 more. The only plants I had in there were hornwort and moss balls. I removed the moss balls but hornwort rotted with fungus since I left the tank alone for two weeks to see if I have fry and to let them grow up a little. Now I removed everything from the tank. It's just the fry and the bladder snails. Bladder snails reproduce quick. I toss the big ones in the 20 gallons.