Feeding and Nutrition :: would this be a good tank to breed some rosies in?

[pumpkinsherbet]

or is it too small? i found it at the petstore, though the one they have is 2 gallons. i just think it's so cute

http://www.amazon.com/SpongeBob-SquareP ... B000H67KP0

[DavidY]

Whoa, way too small. If you want to breed them they will need good water quality and plenty of room, especially for when the babies are born. They will need lots of places to hide and as they grow, they will become a huge bioload. So you'll need a decent sized filter too.

[pumpkinsherbet]

oh poo, then i may as well just shovel out the $.12 'til i can afford some sort of feeder tank.

how 'bout maybe this?
http://www.pet-shop.net/html/sponge.html

or i could just use them for bettas as is their intended purpose? do you think i could maybe put two rosies in it, hang it by the tank. so the rosie i have can have company and not feel terrorized by its potential to be food heehee. my boyfriend already named the rosie (calls it lucky) so now he's got me attached =Þ

[pumpkinsherbet]

oy! this one's cheaper and cuter and bigger.

marina pirates goldfish starter kit

i do really want to figure out how i can keep that one minnow safe while still feeding the turts their needed fish as cheaply as possible. breeding ghost shrimp maybe? heehee.

my thoughts are weird, i got very little sleep lastnight.

[xsavingsaturdayx]

If you want to breed them and not spend alot of money, then you can always buy a rubbermaid container..pick up a cheap filter and water heater, a couple plants/hiding places and TADAH!

[DavidY]

he he! yea that's a nice little tank too! You could try a 10gal tank from Petco. I've seen them as cheap as $10 from there before. I bought a whole bunch of them for raising my baby dragons in. You could keep the adult pair of rosies in your "cute" display tank and carefully net out the babies when they hatch, and transfer them to the 10gal for rearing. If you do that, you should use a sponge filter with an air bubbler in the rearing tank so the babies (fry) don't get killed by the filter. Keep a couple of snails or small sucker fish in there to keep the biological fauna alive in between hatchings.

A good food for fish fry that I used to use was the solid yolk of a hard boiled egg, pressed through a couple of folds of cheese cloth in some water. You can add some liquid vitamins to the slurry and then feed the fry from an eyedropper, adding the food mix one drop at a time until everyone has had enough to eat. The fry will usually swarm right around the drops of food and eat it all before it can diffuse in the water. That will help keep the pollution down, which is important, 'cause a hundred baby fish can foul the water really fast if you're not careful. I've lost entire hatches that way before.

[pumpkinsherbet]

wow, er... yeesh i should've done some research. i had no idea there was that much going into it heh. i'm researching breeding little shrimp as well
http://www.aqualandpetsplus.com/Live%20 ... Shrimp.htm
but i just asked my boyfriend about getting that one for breeding feeders and he got defensive =Þ so maybe it's not so doable. i may still get it as a mini-aquarium something for the turtles to look at. *shrugs*

[pumpkinsherbet]

oy i could just get a couple of plants and put it in there for them to snack on and the rosie can hide there? i want something cheap and efficient that will keep my turtles fed and my rosie safe. and my pocketbook... fat. plants would probably be a little cheaper yes?

[DavidY]

I think breeding shrimp will be much more difficult than fish. For one thing, shrimp are more particular about water quality as well as proper levels of certain trace elements. They need to molt their exoskeleton regularly to grow and if the water chemistry isn't within the right parameters, they will die in the process.

I would just setup some hiding areas for the minnows in your turtle tank and see what happens. That's what I'm doing. I built a kind of safety cage by gluing some white plastic egg crate material to the pvc legs of my homemade basking platform. I've got live plants in there for natural filtration and the fish can safely rest in there. Some of them come out from time to time and swim around the turtles. lol. I posted a thread in a few months ago about it. I can dig it up for you if you'd like.

[N4784N R4613]

Check this out for OPTIMAL Rosy Red breeding conditions...
http://www.fishpondinfo.com/rosy2.htm

[DavidY]

That's a great site. Thanks N4784N R4613!

(BTW what does your name mean?)

[N4784N R4613]

I just took my name, and tried to find numbers that matched the letters the best....

NATHAN RADLE
N4784N R4613

[DavidY]

Cool!