breeding fish

[Stefan-A]

Originally Posted by Zephyr

Crappy as in the fish, but that works too. XD

Crappie.

[enigma200316]

I have never kept any Molly in any kinda of salt water in my 20+ years
of keeping aquarium fish, and I know they keep easy and breed well....
my first ever fish when I was 4 or 5 yrs. old was a black molly and it had
15 babies and they grew very fast, and my mother sold 10 of them to the
petshop for store credit so I could buy things for my aquarium.........I have had many since then and used them for a veriety of things...........
it is very common to buy a molly and it will be pregnant because they breed well....agian thats my opinion and experience just wanted to put that in there...........................

[Stefan-A]

Another nice thing about mollies is that they very rarely eat the newborn, even compared to other live-bearing fish. The downside was that they didn't reproduce very quickly compared to guppies and swordtails for example. The offspring are relatively large, if you got 10-15 young from a molly, you could get three times as many from a swordtail.

I didn't keep them in any kind of salt water either, but I only kept them for about 6 or 7 years.

[enigma200316]

Originally Posted by Stefan-A

Another nice thing about mollies is that they very rarely eat the newborn, even compared to other live-bearing fish. The downside was that they didn't reproduce very quickly compared to guppies and swordtails for example. The offspring are relatively large, if you got 10-15 young from a molly, you could get three times as many from a swordtail.

I didn't keep them in any kind of salt water either, but I only kept them for about 6 or 7 years.

I agree with you Stefan, the guppies, and swordtails will breed faster, and I don't know if there on the list or not........

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

i did a lot of reaserch on platies and they seem good (many babies/easy to breed/ easy to keep) so ill start out with them and if they dont work out ill move onto something elsee

Originally Posted by Stefan-A

Another nice thing about mollies is that they very rarely eat the newborn, even compared to other live-bearing fish. The downside was that they didn't reproduce very quickly compared to guppies and swordtails for example. The offspring are relatively large, if you got 10-15 young from a molly, you could get three times as many from a swordtail.

I didn't keep them in any kind of salt water either, but I only kept them for about 6 or 7 years.

[enigma200316]

Reed, you have to do whats best and easiest for you...........
another easy one are danio's but don't know if there on the list either....

[Zephyr]

Originally Posted by enigma200316

Reed, you have to do whats best and easiest for you...........
another easy one are danio's but don't know if there on the list either....

I would think they would be, they are cyprinids...
But the only thing I'd be concerned about is that platys and most other livebearers aren't part of a garters wild diet. Mosquito fish are US natives, however. ;D

[KITKAT]

Originally Posted by enigma200316

Reed, you have to do whats best and easiest for you...........
another easy one are danio's but don't know if there on the list either....

The list was made for mink (or was it fox?) nutrition, so they would not have focused on nor tested aquarium fish. Therefore, platies and danios may not be safe.

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

gartersnake.info said they were okay

Originally Posted by KITKAT

The list was made for mink (or was it fox?) nutrition, so they would not have focused on nor tested aquarium fish. Therefore, platies and danios may not be safe.