Best feeder fish

[popnffresh]

Im looking for the best feeder fish to breed. The fish Specialist in my lfs said either molly's or platy's or guppy's. Any ideas? Which would breed the most and easisest to take care of?

[jonah]

I think all 3 of them are about equal for ease of breeding.

[usafschue]

before cichlids i had a lot of livebearers, but the platys did it the most for me

[barramundi]

You could always get a pair of cons, they breed like flies. I'm using a pair to raise free food for my Barramundi, Boof & Baz.:ok:

[Vip]

lol barra.. what about gudgens? i give them to mine every now and then.

[Cich-Fav]

I bought a huge bag of mollies and live shrimps. LEave them in 2 separate containers....with aeration. Wala, u got lots of feeders...and they do breed. Dun even need to condition the water. and the 2 week can serve as quarantine period too...

[Watcher]

guppies

[Seedy]

Guppies are good. However I would be interested to know what you are wanting to feed with the guppies. If you have more than one fish in your tank (be it Oscars or Frontrosas) I would not recomend feeding live fish. I have found that if you train your cichlids to see fish as food (unless you have a wild caught fish, you should be able to get it trained to frozen or flake) you will end up with an overly agressive tank of fin nippers and frye eaters...

[popnffresh]

i have 2 green terrors and 2 jack dempseys. I was thinking about live but then again i didnt want them to grow too fast or to be to agressive. I feed them pellets , veggies , blood worms, brine shrimp , beef heart, granules , tubifex worms and a whole bunch more.

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[jennigypsy]

I agree with Seedy...it does make the fish more aggressive...and trains them to eat fry...

[didjyman]

I agree with jenni, but if you insist definitely breed your own to help avoid feeding them a disease. Vegi and spirulina are great staple to avoid bloat.

[jennigypsy]

..and I second didj...if you are going to feed live fish, be sure you know what you're feeding. Feed your feeders well & keep them healthy...(that always stymies me when I see tanks full of 'feeder' fish that are alomst dead, emaciated & the water smells bad...it only makes sense that sooner or later your fish are going to get sick too...isn't that why the gov't makes farmers destroy cows with 'mad cow'?..so we don't get what they have?....off the subject a bit, but same idea)

[Seedy]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by popnffresh
[B]i have 2 green terrors and 2 jack dempseys. I was thinking about live but then again i didnt want them to grow too fast or to be to agressive. I feed them pellets , veggies , blood worms, brine shrimp , beef heart, granules , tubifex worms and a whole bunch more.

Wow! great job feeding a wide selection of food...I think you could just avoid the hassle of feeding live fish...maybe save it for a treat, or when you have company... your fish certainly are not under-nourished!:rolleyes:

I'm not too knowledgable about S.A. Cichlids but I know that Jack's and Terror's are notorious fish killers...I would not feed them live fish not only because of what I said in my prev post, but because you are all ready meeting (and probably exceeding) their nutritional requirments...

[Vip]

ive lost two fish from beef heart i know stay away from...oh! and i agree with jenni for agreeing with seedy so now i agree with them both!

[Seedy]

I think we have a consensus...

[Vip]

sorry, im just bored, i miss my job :(