Oh joy - my guppies have had babies...

[idontbelieveanymore]

I have a small 23 litre fluval edge with 4 guppies in. I have had them for 2 years and now they have bred...I have managed to save 10 babies. Others I assume were eaten/ filter etc I have cleaned the tank as there were lots of dead ones in the water rotting ergh!

Fish are very happy again but I now have a sea monkey tank with 10 baby guppies in it. I don't really know what to do. Have googled etc but I think they will soon die in the sea monkey tank as no filtration etc and so I am thinking about putting them back into the tank and they can hide amongst the vegetation etc I have ground up fish food into a powder for them but they do not seem too keen...

[EauRouge]

They will pick up little bits of whatever the adults don't eat. The tank won't be big enough for all of them though so if you want to keep them then upgrading to a bigger tank will be better for them. 23 litres is a squeeze for 4 adults tbh.

If you don't want to be overrun with babies again then you could keep an all-male shoal.

[idontbelieveanymore]

Thankyou EauRouge - I have just purchased another tank and have set that one up. Will give it as long as possible and then move the babies into it. I shall then be separating males and females and rehoming one or the other if I can find someone else with a suitable fish tank I hope the little buggers make it!!