Would Like To Breed A Fish?, for a 2.5 gallon tank, could be getting a 10 g

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Hi everyone, I've got 2 oscar fish in 84 gallon whom I'm trying to breed, but they are not ready at the moment. Laid eggs twice before, but the female's just not into it at the moment
so I'm looking for a fairly easy interesting little fish that would do fine in a 2.5 gallon tank to breed/ I'd love to raise fry and sell them. I might get a new 10 g, because I know I can get them for pretty cheap
What are your suggestions?

Emma
 
Well, there are quite a few small tetras, barbs, and danios that you could pretty easily breed in a 10g, but for a 2.5g your options are quite limited. I would suggest one or two pair of small platies, bieng simple to keep, sex, and breed.
 
...actually, if you want to sell them, I can't think of any that would give you any kind of return on your investments.
 
Platies in a 2.5 gallon? A fish that gets to be over 1.5 inches long and has tons of babies?

Least killiefish would be your only option for soemthing that small, but seriously, get a bigger tank.
 
Yeah I think 10 g is good. I've got a big growout for future oscar babies so I don't want too many other big tanks, so they don't take up too much space. I just wanted to breed some fish
 
Uh, for one, killifish, when you can even find them, are usually not cheap in any since of the word, require strictly small live food, have very short life spans, and from what I understand are very difficult to breed- hence the shortage of them in the fishkeeping community.
 
5TankHarmony said:
Uh, for one, killifish, when you can even find them, are usually not cheap in any since of the word, require strictly small live food, have very short life spans, and from what I understand are very difficult to breed- hence the shortage of them in the fishkeeping community.
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None of that is true at all. Found my Killie at Petsmart, paid a dollar for the female, she eats just about anything small enough (flake foods and frozen), they can live several years, she came pregnant, had babies in less than 3 days and she can have several babies every month. They hold sperm for a long time so can have babies several times without a male needed. One of the easist fish to breed.

Also, no way you should put any kind of platty in a 2.5g tank. They get far too big.
 
5TankHarmony said:
...actually, if you want to sell them, I can't think of any that would give you any kind of return on your investments.
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I second this; why breed them, really? You will wind up drowning in fry that you cant get rid of and unless you seperate by sex, will themselves reproduce. If you plan to "give them away/sell to good homes", Id like to know where you find these excellent homes, as Ive got some guppies to sell someone. They are living creatures that deserve the best life they can get, not stuffed in a LFS tank or in joe-shmoes 5 gallon filterless setup.
Same goes for the oscars, IMO.
Just enjoy the fish you have.
 
Then perhaps, Rowangel, you could explain to me why Nolan's- which is the largest single aquarium and fish store in all of central Florida, carrying hundreds of species of freshwater fish does not and has never even carried them, if indeed they are so abundant within the hobby?Or why the most recent revision of Axelrod's Freshwater Aquarium Atlas, a very reliable reference book, mentions that require primrily live food? I don't mind being wrong occasionally, just not when I have the proof to back it up.
 
...oh, and about the platies- I did not breed them, but I had a pair in a 2.5g octagonal that lived healthily and happily for years.
 
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