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Q- Can somebody give me an idea on equipment and materials to use to set up for fish breeding in my garage?
.A- A breeder I know uses the following, a Sweetwater blower( but in your garage a linear air pump might suffice), a large plastic tub/reservoir with lots of surface area, a couple large chunks of limestone to put in the reservoir, 40 lb bucket of Seachem Rift Lake cichlid salt, a Lifegard FB 900 fluidized bed filter, a large polybead filter like an ocean clear 354, a UV sterilizer (last in line before water goes back to the tanks), and a large pump for cycling the water and pushing it through all the devices and up to all the tanks. You'll want to use pvc to carry the water. Take it from the uv sterilizer and run it up above the tanks so that gravity will help you putting the water in all the tanks, and run the return pipes in the reverse pattern of this. If you use a blower for the air, then you can use pvc pipes, a =
drill and tubing for the air dispersion. It is a good idea to use a sponge filter in each tank. You can use a protein skimmer in the setup but it is not totally necessary. Remember, this setup I described is for serious fish production. You also will want to find a good source of food and chemicals in bulk. Hut is a good source for food, as well as www.jehmco.com, or you might be able to find your own for cheaper or in bigger quantities. He uses tanks from 10 gal. on up to 150 gal. (not the show tank, but the 150 gal. that has lots of floor/bottom area. Also, you will want some medicinal supplies on hand, though the UV sterilizer will help out. You will want some kind of monitoring instruments that will give you a constant readout of the pH and hardness/ppm in the water. Just off the top of my head I know pinpoint makes some.
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