interested in breeding freshwater puffers

[125blackfire]

Does anyone have a link or a list of how long it takes freshwater puffers (of all kinds) too breeds? Including how long it takes for them to start mating. I know close too nothing about breeding fish. But am happily too reading many many articles of breeding puffers.

[125blackfire]

will a 20G tank do good for breeding dwarf puffers? 1 male 2 female. and keep an extra 5G tank for frys and eggs?

[plurmaster]

there's not much info on breeding puffers due to the fact is hard to sex them. You can check the pufferpedia on how to sex some of the puffer out there like Irrubesco,Dwarf Puffers and few more. If you wanna breed dwarf puffer is good to keep 1 male and 2 female but for 3 DP's you need 10-15 gal tank with lots of plant. You'll need some moss for them to mate.

[Pufferpunk]

Moving to Puffer Breeding section. Look thru this forum for some ideas.

[andreas]

will a 20G tank do good for breeding dwarf puffers? 1 male 2 female. and keep an extra 5G tank for frys and eggs?

Yes, although I would recommend a bigger tank for the adult puffers. Makes it easier for them to get along...
Think about setting up more smaller tanks (or bowls or whatever) for the frys. They turn canibalistic if the size difference permits it.

How we do it:
http://guppy.andreas-sander.net/Kufi_Na ... _engl.html

Martin Damnitz's Page:
http://www.zwergkugelfisch.de/Breeding.html

Good Luck!

Regards,
Andy

[mala]

I had three DPs in a 10 gal. One day i was doing a water change, and out of habit I check water I'm pouring out very carefully for fry (mostly because of the guppy tank). I didn't see anything and dumped most of the water into the toilet bowl to discard it. Well I notice this tiny moving dot.... I got the turkey baster which I use to move guppy fry, and lo and behold it is a DP fry! I don't know what I was doing right to get a DP fry, or how many others there were that I never found. Point being, its finding the eggs/fry and removing them before the adults eat them that is going to be the real challenge.

The tank was 10gal, gravel substrate. Very heavy on the fake plants.

[Pufferpunk]

Yeah, puffer fry are really tiny. One of the hardest part of breeding puffers is feeding the fry.