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« Reply #60 on: September 02, 2005, 04:47:58 PM »
dont worry about the eggs. as long as u find them before they are free swimming they wont eat them usually. if u want live foods check outdoor bodies of stagnant water e.g.  those buckets were you keep your rainwater or ponds u might find some mosquito larvae coz in my backyard i have a dustbin of rainwater and the mosquito larvae never seems to run out! i still havent been able to breed them yet in my outdoor pool even though nearly every source says they are the easiest fish to breed!
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« Reply #61 on: September 25, 2005, 04:35:31 PM »
lol i think im treating my silver dollars too good now. every day i feed them koi pellets which all the fish tank love, then in the evening i feed them courgettes which everyone loves too. and at least 2 days of a week i feed them bloodworm. in fact they r so healthy they started having a light brown to there silver.
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« Reply #62 on: September 26, 2005, 08:56:55 AM »
You will have to try breeding them Jazzer!!
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« Reply #63 on: September 26, 2005, 04:11:32 PM »
i know i was thinking that yesterday  but i'd need to find a 48 inch breeding tank for them!
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« Reply #64 on: September 26, 2005, 08:44:43 PM »
I've never heard of them breeding, but it would make a good breeding project, and know i could get some good prices for them.

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« Reply #65 on: September 26, 2005, 09:58:14 PM »
Yes, you could be famous Jazzer. When I was young, it was the Red Tail Black Shark that I tried for ages to breed, that hadn't been bred before, I never bred them in tanks and I am not sure whether they have now.
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« Reply #66 on: September 27, 2005, 04:26:58 AM »
Yes i love the RTS, and I'm gonna breed them oneday, but it's rearly done with out hormone injection's to induce breeding.
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« Reply #67 on: September 27, 2005, 07:45:54 AM »
Hmmmm, hormone injections are a bit like dye injections in my book, not really the done thing!! If you can't breed them in tanks without it then I don't think you should do it at all.
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« Reply #68 on: September 27, 2005, 11:51:19 AM »
I think they breed them in large ponds in the far east,Singapore maybe?I dont think silver dollars have been bred yet so Jazzer could well be the first,after all someone has to succeed sooner or later same as the RTB shark.
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« Reply #69 on: September 27, 2005, 12:27:13 PM »
So all you need is a tropical pond Jazzer!!
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« Reply #70 on: September 27, 2005, 06:28:45 PM »
it would be so lucky to breed them coz once they start breeding you know what there conditions are and you could make millions . silver dollars are around £3 - 4.50 down mine and they are said to lay about 2000 eggs so thats alot of money! but i'll have to feed them like 2 tubs of supersize aquarian everyday lol! fishtanks seems to be not the best place to breed like my white clouds i dumped them in an outdoor poool for about a month and when i got them back this morning they had the most brilliant wild coulours and they've definately changed shape for some reason. the females where really plump . there cream stripe became like kinda golden. i guess fish flakes and live foods is not always what all a fish needs. im sure if we all moved to a hot country like thailand or summit there would be no need in fish tanks and you could just put them in outdoor pools all yr round and they get a better environment and bigger space for breeding. they say silver dollars need fine leaved vegetation to spawn in but i bet u if i filled half of the tank with plants they would eat it all in maximum 4 days!
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« Reply #71 on: September 28, 2005, 08:31:40 AM »
Don't think too hard about making loads of money breeding fish mate, it is very unlikely to happen. The best you can hope for is to make back some of your overheads!! Keeping fish in outdoor pools does give them much better colours, but only for a short space of time, when you bring them back in, they go back to their duller colours.

Also, when you catch fish in the wild (apparently), the fish are much more vibrantly coloured until you get them home and they go dull again. I guess that is because they get everything they need outside (including sunlight) and loads of live food and you can only create a poor imitation of that environment indoors, even in big tanks.
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« Reply #72 on: November 25, 2005, 06:29:53 AM »
Just to let u know...... I've got currently 300 or so silver dollar eggs here........

I went to one of my tanks in a hotel yesterday, and the first thing i noticed was the 2 dollars there was acting strange, the smaller fish (male) was shimmering along siide the larger fatter fish (female), nobbeling on the pectoral fins and following her.

After 10 mins of watching this, the then started breeding, the male raped the anal fin around the female (simular to goodeia species), then she scattered 7-10 eggs at a time..... The cichlids was loving this.

I was lucky to catch out many eggs though... just hope the hatch now...

It's 12 hours later noe and only 10 white eggs, so hopeing some are good.


The adualts was about 6-7", the female was visably quite fat, the males is smaller, has black spots in the dorsal fin, and a red-black line on the edge of the tail.

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« Reply #73 on: November 25, 2005, 08:54:48 AM »
You will need plenty of big tanks to grow them on then Alan!!
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« Reply #74 on: November 25, 2005, 05:24:31 PM »
yea nd u'll need 10 gallons of liquifry too! i dont know nothign about breeding them but since there such big eaters i'm guessing they'll grow quite fast. watch ur adults too coz if they've bred once theres no reason why they wont breed again lol but if i were you i'd focus on raising your first batch and leave the others for now
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