So i have 2 lady guppies and a very beautiful boy. With them is a bunch of ember tetra, a lonely rainbow rasbora, handful of corys and some dwarf chain loaches. The guppies started breeding a while back and it was okay at first as the loaches seemed quite happy to gobble the fry up with the few survivors being donated to my mum and a few friends. This seemed quite a natural method of population control and all was okay but now the tank is overrun with the things swimming all over the place and the loaches don't seem interested at all.
The largest fry went into the hospital tank today but really don't know what to do with them, it's too small for a permanent fix and there is still the small ones. Looked into the gumtree/local route but there seems to be quite a few breeders in the locality and even they don't seem to be able to give them away. So any ideas what i could do with them? Probably quite a common problem really but any ideas would be welcomed.
Long term i need a solution as well, is there a carnivorous fish that i could get but would leave the tetra alone? Realistically i know i should just split up the guppies but they were my first fish and seem so happy together. Shop never told me they would breed, just said to get two girls and a boy and i was slightly too relaxed about research before getting them is there anything a plant or owt that would discourage them from breeding but keep them happy?
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Help, I'm overrun with baby guppies!
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TinyDancingHoofer · 05/09/2012 16:21
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