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Breeding Catfish? | 8 comments (7 topical, 1 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: By the way, Breeding Catfish is a lot differen (none / 0) (#4)
by Jaymi on Wed Dec 20, 2006 at 10:14:14 PM PST

I'm trying to save my baby cories, and most of my fry, as a way to support my other fish. I raise fry of several kinds, bring them into my LFS, and they give me store credit for them, which I use to buy foods, meds, and test kits. Keeping them all just wouldn't work! I will occassionally keep a particularly nice guppy or two (especially the goldens!).

However, I keep a 10 gallon baby fry tank, and a 20 gallon grow out tank. (at the moment, I also have a 1 gallon egg tank)

The fry tank has a sponge filter, which creates a weak current, and won't suck up my fry. Once the fry get big enough to eat newborn fry, they move into the growout tank, until they get to be a decent size, and have their colors, then they go to the petstore.

Right now, I'm raising guppies and platies together, and I still have a few swordtails left in my growout tank. My male swordtail died a while back, and the females seem to have already run out of his sperm. Hopefully, if all goes well, cories will be joining them soon.

Breeding any fish is a bad idea if you don't have the space to put them, or a place such a a pet store, or a friend's house where they can go. If you just want a few cories to help keep your tank bottom clean, you may be better off just buying the ones you want, instead of trying to breed them. Otherwise, you will probably end up with way too many. (or you could get cories like mine, who breed without permission.)

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"you could get cories like mine, who breed (none / 0) (#6)
by unclescott on Thu Dec 21, 2006 at 07:07:59 PM PST

without permission." :)

But that means you are taking very good care of them. :)

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Re: By the way, Breeding Catfish is a lot differen (none / 0) (#5)
by MollieGuppy on Thu Dec 21, 2006 at 03:04:01 AM PST

I realised the space idea, Then ended up with 5 tanks.

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Re: By the way, Breeding Catfish is a lot differen (none / 0) (#7)
by Jaymi on Thu Dec 21, 2006 at 11:05:56 PM PST

You're lucky it is only 5. I have 11 set up, as well as a few tanks in my attic I could pull down in an emergency.

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Breeding Catfish? | 8 comments (7 topical, 1 editorial, 0 hidden)

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