how do i breed fathead minnows? and how long would it take them? and would it be eggs or live birth? and what are the tank requirments?
How do i breed Fatheads?
- Thread starter CrazyBoutFish
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Go to PetSmart and buy some of the feeder ones or go to a bait shop and get some. The bait shop will have healthier, full-blood fatheads, where as PetSmart will have emaciated, possibly hybridized Pimephales sp. Or you could order some pure-breds from online. Give them a 10 gallon tank with a propped up flat stone that is about 2-3" off the floor to where it makes a cave. No substrate is needed. Just a filter, aerator, and a flat stone. Keep it at room temp and raise them on frozen foods for best quality breeders. They should mature in under six months if you get juveniles. Males will develop fat-heads(hence the name) and darker, deeper bodies. Females will fatten up with eggs. The male will care for the eggs, so just remove the females for more young. After the eggs hatch in about 5 days, take the male out. You can feed them commercial fry food, BBS, or frozen glassworms. Any questions?
Fathead minnow breeding recipe
20 gallon long
sponge filters
75 degree water
small terracota pots
Add males and females
feed brine shrimp or other live food
Wait for breeding. When you have eggs wait 3 more days and you have wigglers.
When you have eggs you can leave them in the tank or move the pots to a fry tank (5-10 gallon with sponge filters)
20 gallon long
sponge filters
75 degree water
small terracota pots
Add males and females
feed brine shrimp or other live food
Wait for breeding. When you have eggs wait 3 more days and you have wigglers.
When you have eggs you can leave them in the tank or move the pots to a fry tank (5-10 gallon with sponge filters)
The red clay pots are terracota. Nice and cheap. When you move one with eggs into a hatchery you can put another in the same place. Eventually, in a 20 long you will want to only have 2-3 breeding males.