Fish may be classified according to their breeding habits into the following categories. |
Live Bearers |
| They belong to the family of life bearing tooth
carps. These are fish that bring forth their young alive. These babies are
large in size and can eat adult food at birth. Fish breeders generally
feed daphnia as the first food, but I have always fed them live tubifex
worms with good results. |
| Guppies, Swordtails, Mollies, Platties etc. fall
under this group. A Ratio of one male to four females is used for mating
purpose. Once mated the female is good for one to five spawns. |
| The brood size ranges from a few babies to even
above 300 in rare cases. They lay in intervals ranging from 21 days to 40
days depending on the water temperature. The average is 30 days at 28
degrees centigrade. |
Egg Layers |
| Egg layers may be classified as nest builders,
eggs scatterers, egg depositors and mouth breeders. |
Nest Builders |
| Gauramis, siamese fighters, paradise fish etc. fall under
this group. This group of fish are called labyrinth fish. They get their
oxygen direct from the atmosphere. The male builds a nest of bubbles which
may range from half inch to five inches in diameter and almost one
inch high. The male embraces the female and eggs are discharged and fertilized.
Eggs generally float up. The eggs of betta splendens sink and the
male, also the female picks them up and places them in the nest. When the
spawning is complete in one to a few hours the female should be removed as
the male starts attacking her. The eggs hatch in about 48 hours and the
fry are free swimming in another 48 hours depending on water temperature.
The male should be removed at this stage not because he will eat the
babies, as the books say, but because he has no further role to play.
These fry are very small and require infusoria as the first stage of
feeding. Newly hatched brine shrimps should be fed after a particular
number of days, then daphania and adult food. |
Cichlids |
| The Cichlids choose their own mates and lay their
eggs on leaf or rocks. The angels, discus, ramizizi etc. fall under this
group. As a rule they care for their young. The fry are large and
generally can be fed freshly hatched brine shrimps. Some parents like the
discus and orange cromide secrete a substance on their bodies on which the
babies feed. |
Egg Scatterers |
| The largest group of fish are the eggs scatterers.
Barbs, Tetras etc. fall under this group. |
| The pair is introduced in the breeding tank at
dusk and they spawn at dawn. Nilon mops are generally used to save the
eggs from the parents. |
| The pair is removed after spawning which takes about
a couple of hours. Most fry can eat brine shrimp babies for a first
feed. |
The Mouth-Breeders nurse their young in the mouth.
Tilapia, Arowanas, etc. fall under this group. The fry are few and
large. |
This is general information which may be got from
any good book on aquarium fish. But successful fish breeding takes much
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analysis and learning. |
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