Need to breed some feeder fish...Minnows or Guppies?

So my gar is now too big for bloodworms(and frankly uninterested in them ;P) so yesterday I bought 8 guppies and 3 minnows...some got eaten by cichlids, but he got a few :)

Anyway, I set up two 10g breeder tanks and a 5g fry tank, cycled them with sponge filters, and put in pvc pipe for egg laying(if I do minnows)...now I just need fish. Has anyone bred minnows/guppies, if so what would you reccomend? which is easier? more nutritional for the gar?

Thanks! ^^

Red jewels, the breed like mad protect their young and you can grow them to whatever size the gar needs.
I keep a pair just to breed feeders for my flowerhorns.
P.s. I saved 6 for you

Fern- acutally I don't think I have a growout tank for the jewels I was going to get for you...and I'm almost positive if I put them in my main tank that they'd be eaten...they ate all 5 of my 1" cichlids before I could get them out :/ I'm sorry...

Guppys plattys or mollys are easy, give them lots of planted plants and floating plants and you will pull out lots of fry.

It is what it is

guppies or minnows arent really that nutritious, im hoping you are also supplementing flakes and pellets with it right?

How about some marbled crays? Very easy and highly nutritious compared to guppies and minnows.

If she gut loads the fry with whatever she wants to get into the gar it should help with nutrition.

Gut loading; feed the fry foods that you want your gar to eat before feeding them to the gar.

Fern wrote:

If she gut loads the fry with whatever she wants to get into the gar it should help with nutrition.

Gut loading; feed the fry foods that you want your gar to eat before feeding them to the gar.

listen to this advise he will like it

Typicaltony- I've been trying but he won't eat anything else...Ive tried flakes, pellets(floating and sinking), bloodworms(live and dead) but he won't eat anything but live fish. I'll look in to Marbled Crays...thanks :)

Fern- thats a great idea, thanks!

One think you need to gut load with is high quality spirulina flake, its got lots of the good vitamins and stuff.

Try soaking the flakes and pellets in garlic juice.. and see.

I do agree that you need to wean him onto processed foods. I had found a good method somewhere when I come across it again I will post it for you.