So I have been raising my own guppies and supplementing with ghost shrimp.
I would like to get to the point where I could pull out a few guppies a week for my predator tank (leaf fish, butterfly fish, pollys and a pike characin)
How many tanks would I need running to sustain this, what are some other options of easy to breed food for these fish, I was thinking of maybe convicts or shellys as I hear they breed quickly as well.
How would white clouds work(appealing because I could run that tank w/o a heater in my basement which is normally 68 degrees.
I have mostly display tanks atm, but will be setting up a breeding room in the coming weeks.
These will be the tanks I have to work with for breeding
6x40bs, 10x 10g 2x 20l I may add a few more 20ls or 40 Bs and a 75 as well but that would be in a second stage of tanks.
I can not heat all of the tanks currently as I don't believe I will have enough outlets.
They will all run of box and sponge filters.
I am open to drilling them to run them on a central system where I can heat a large sump of some sort, but would prefer that they all remain independent.
I have toyed with the idea of scuds for the 10gs but with the fish being the size they are I think they would be ignored, though I may do a couple tanks of them for my kribs.
I have also toyed with the idea of running a few cherry shrimp tanks for food.
Any input would be welcome.
The adult African tank with my huge congo tetras rip through about 100 ghost shrimp a week. if that gives you any idea on how much food they go through. (and yes I do feed pellets and massivor/shimp tablets as well as silver sides and cut market shrimp so I do not depend on live food, I only have two fish that are still on live only, but I'm working on it.
I would like to get to the point where I could pull out a few guppies a week for my predator tank (leaf fish, butterfly fish, pollys and a pike characin)
How many tanks would I need running to sustain this, what are some other options of easy to breed food for these fish, I was thinking of maybe convicts or shellys as I hear they breed quickly as well.
How would white clouds work(appealing because I could run that tank w/o a heater in my basement which is normally 68 degrees.
I have mostly display tanks atm, but will be setting up a breeding room in the coming weeks.
These will be the tanks I have to work with for breeding
6x40bs, 10x 10g 2x 20l I may add a few more 20ls or 40 Bs and a 75 as well but that would be in a second stage of tanks.
I can not heat all of the tanks currently as I don't believe I will have enough outlets.
They will all run of box and sponge filters.
I am open to drilling them to run them on a central system where I can heat a large sump of some sort, but would prefer that they all remain independent.
I have toyed with the idea of scuds for the 10gs but with the fish being the size they are I think they would be ignored, though I may do a couple tanks of them for my kribs.
I have also toyed with the idea of running a few cherry shrimp tanks for food.
Any input would be welcome.
The adult African tank with my huge congo tetras rip through about 100 ghost shrimp a week. if that gives you any idea on how much food they go through. (and yes I do feed pellets and massivor/shimp tablets as well as silver sides and cut market shrimp so I do not depend on live food, I only have two fish that are still on live only, but I'm working on it.