electric yellows questions

[plec]

hi just wondering a few basic questions. i have been researching them but can not find the answers to these questions. how often can they spawn. if i had a colony of say 3m and 10f and they are about 5cm also roughly what price would you be able to get for there fry and at what size. thanks.

[Savage_roo]

Ya I would say u can get a batch of fry out of 1 yellow every 2 to 3 months
Depending if u strip them or not
But if u let the hold full term I would rest her 4 a while till she puts condishen back on

Most yellows here are priced around a $ a cm more if there breeders may be 2$  a cm

Some yellows will breed at 5 to 6 cm's well mine did any ways

Hop this helps

Andrew

[plec]

thanks for the help they sound like they pay for themselves. how many could be kept in a 4*15*15 and they are in demand arent they. i am just a bit scared because i spent heaps of money 6 months ago on common bristlenose and after getting them to breed could not sell there fry unless i sold them for less then 50 cents each. thanks.

[Savage_roo]

ya u can put 13 fish in that size tank just keep it clean and a good air ration
I find if you have a good col of good yellows
you can always sell them

andrew

[Muttley]

Yellows are probably one of the easiest to breed behind hongi's.  I usually get a mouthful every month from mine, and I don't have a lot of females.  There is one dominant male who tends to do all the breeding work though.  They start reasonably small as they tend to be a bit of a slow growing fish.  I let my girls carry their first few mouthfuls as they are learning the ropes still.  Usually found the first two times they didn't carry the mouthful for more than a few days.  They get the hang of it though.  

Yellows are always in demand.  Usually the $1 a cm.  

I keep my colony of 9 in with a colony of blues :wink: and a small colony of cobues in a 4ft tank.   The yellows fend for themselves against these other fish without much voilence.

[plec]

this all sounds good. in the next couple of weeks i am getting 60 5cm roughly electric yellows 30 from two different sources. does anyone have a rough idea of what sex ratio i could be looking at. out of 60 would i get more males or more females any help would be great thanks.

[Muttley]

From my experience and what i have been told, they are usually top heavy with males.

[plec]

i thought that would be the answer unfortunately. oh well once i figure out whats what i will sell theb excess males at what size can they be sexed and how long untill the fry reach 4cm i know these are really basic questions but after searching numerous sites and google i still have no idea as none of them answer these questions. thanks.

[Savage_roo]

If there good fish and your water is good
Thay should get their first mouth fulls  at about 6 to 7 cm's

But there is no telling there r a lot of things that can step in
I know some 1 that had a smaller tank did stuff all water changes
And her fish grow faster and bred sooner out of the same batch of fry

But all up young fish don't hold fry 4 every long u might have to wait for the 3rd of 5th batch till they hold adleast 2 week b 4 the fry r worth striping

So I hop this helped

Andrew

[here fishie fishie]

With so many fish the easiest way would be to wait until they start breeding. Take out females {holding}, place them in a seperate tank. That way you will have your females sorted. Throw in a couple of the best looking males in with females, once you have a few females in there. Keep doing this until you have what ever size colony or until you run out of fish. Sell off excess males & fish that look horrible. Yellows are a plenty out there, good looking ones sell easy, ugly ones don't.

Frenchy :D

[plec]

yeah that sounds good to me. and also what is the best food to feed 5cm yellows just a bit of flake and maybe even some cichlid pellets. thanks.

[here fishie fishie]

I feed mine a mixture of, spirulina flake, cichlid pellets & frozen mysis shrimp.

Frenchy :D

[plec]

ok cool thanks.

[Benji]

[quote:bd29f09482="here fishie fishie"]Sell off excess males & fish that look horrible. Yellows are a plenty out there, good looking ones sell easy, ugly ones don't.

Frenchy :D[/quote:bd29f09482]

Wouldn't it be better to kull the ugly ones? illiminating the ugly genes, rather than selling them and spreading the ugly genes?

I've read that good/resposible breeders should kull for this reason.

i think selling the horrible fish is irrisponsible and is cheating the buyer.

[here fishie fishie]

I get what you mean Ben, culling deforamities....We are talking about Plec raising yellows that should of already been culled by the breeder. Then again I am assuming Plec is buying off a good breeder to start with. What I was talking about is Plec is buying 60 fish, he can afford to be fussy.
Why isn't it fair, we are talking about Electric Yellows here. There is no such thing as an "A grade" yellow to start off with. The ones he will be passing off won't be that bad surely.{Hopefully}
 
As for not fair on the buyer, I get sick of hereing that, it is buyer beware. Take responsibility for their own actions. What happened to people saying, oh they aren't that flash I will pass, or I can see they are sick no thanks.

Then again, some people can't cull, they don't have the ticker.

Frenchy :D