guppy fry

[Carl Collins]

Can anyone tell me how to keep my fish away from my baby guppies?
I have the floating plants and stuff but there has got to be more to help..
Could I maybe get some women's tights from the local shops to maybe conceal
a part of the tank off??

[Shawn]

suck the fry out to a small container.
breed them in the container for 1.5 months or longer then put them back to
the tank.

"Carl Collins" > wrote in message
...
> Can anyone tell me how to keep my fish away from my baby guppies?
> I have the floating plants and stuff but there has got to be more to
help..
> Could I maybe get some women's tights from the local shops to maybe
conceal
> a part of the tank off??
>
>

[Michalkun]

"Shawn" > wrote in
:

> suck the fry out to a small container.
> breed them in the container for 1.5 months or longer then put them
> back to the tank.
>

Make sure the container you suck them into is big enough. I had experience
where there wasn't enough space and fry grew very slow.

[Surgicalrn]

Just get some hornwort, don't remove it when it starts spreading and let it
take over the top part of the tank. I've done that in my livebearer tank and
almost all my fry live. They know to stay in the hornwort until they get too
big to eat. My hornwort mass is so large and compact that the adults can't
make it through but the fry have all these little passages they fit through
to get to the center of the ball where they are safe. This also makes sure
that the strong survive and you don't end up with deformed or just plain
stupid gups. Survival of the fittest baby... that's what it's all about!

[Paulo]

Well...my problem is the opposite..how can stop my guppies for breeding????
The litlle babies swim along the whole tank...and none of the fish bother
them....They are going to take over my tank......

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Paulo
"Surgicalrn" > wrote in message
...
> Just get some hornwort, don't remove it when it starts spreading and let
it
> take over the top part of the tank. I've done that in my livebearer tank
and
> almost all my fry live. They know to stay in the hornwort until they get
too
> big to eat. My hornwort mass is so large and compact that the adults can't
> make it through but the fry have all these little passages they fit
through
> to get to the center of the ball where they are safe. This also makes sure
> that the strong survive and you don't end up with deformed or just plain
> stupid gups. Survival of the fittest baby... that's what it's all about!
>

[Sajjad Lateef]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:03:03 -0400, Paulo wrote:

> Well...my problem is the opposite..how can stop my guppies for breeding????
> The litlle babies swim along the whole tank...and none of the fish bother
> them....They are going to take over my tank......

Put a single Angelfish in your tank and don't feed the tank
for a couple of weeks. Voila' no more guppy fry.

[Paulo]

Well, but I understand the angelfish is a territorial fish and can attack my
other fishs (Rasbora, neon, rummy nose)

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Paulo
"Sajjad Lateef" > wrote in message
...
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:03:03 -0400, Paulo wrote:
>
> > Well...my problem is the opposite..how can stop my guppies for
breeding????
> > The litlle babies swim along the whole tank...and none of the fish
bother
> > them....They are going to take over my tank......
>
> Put a single Angelfish in your tank and don't feed the tank
> for a couple of weeks. Voila' no more guppy fry.

[TYNK 7]

>Subject: Re: guppy fry
>From: "Sajjad Lateef"
>Date: 10/16/2003 6:02 PM Central Daylight Time
>Message-id: >
>
>On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:03:03 -0400, Paulo wrote:
>
>> Well...my problem is the opposite..how can stop my guppies for breeding????
>> The litlle babies swim along the whole tank...and none of the fish bother
>> them....They are going to take over my tank......
>
>Put a single Angelfish in your tank and don't feed the tank
>for a couple of weeks. Voila' no more guppy fry.
>
>

You wouldn't need to stop feeding for any length of time..not with an
Angelfish.
Their prey drive is so strong that they wouldn't be able to help
themselves....even after a good feed.
Bettas are another great predator of live bearer fry.

[Victor M. Martinez]

Paulo > wrote:
>Well...my problem is the opposite..how can stop my guppies for breeding????

That's why I added angels to my tank. They're extremely good hunters of fry...

--
Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

[Surgicalrn]

Yep... an Angel fish would take care of those puppies pretty quickly. You
could also set up another tank and get some Oscars. Seems with your luck
breeding gups you would never have to buy any food for the Oscars! ;-)

[Michalkun]

"Paulo" > wrote in
:

> Well...my problem is the opposite..how can stop my guppies for
> breeding???? The litlle babies swim along the whole tank...and none of
> the fish bother them....They are going to take over my tank......
>
>

Parhaps you feed your fish too much so they aren't hungry like in nature.

[Paulo]

The only problem i can find with the angels is if they are going to be
aggfresive with the restoof the fishes. I remember once, many years ago, an
angelfish kill all my neons...didnt eat them but kill them....

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Paulo
"Robert Flory" > wrote in message
...
> I've got three small angels in the guppy tank.... I've not see any fry
since
> they were quarter sized.
>
> Bob
> "Victor M. Martinez" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Paulo > wrote:
> > >Well...my problem is the opposite..how can stop my guppies for
> breeding????
> >
> > That's why I added angels to my tank. They're extremely good hunters of
> fry...
> >
> > --
> > Victor M. Martinez
> >
> > http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv
> >
>
>

[Robert Flory]

I've got three small angels in the guppy tank.... I've not see any fry since
they were quarter sized.

Bob
"Victor M. Martinez" > wrote in message
...
> Paulo > wrote:
> >Well...my problem is the opposite..how can stop my guppies for
breeding????
>
> That's why I added angels to my tank. They're extremely good hunters of
fry...
>
> --
> Victor M. Martinez
>
> http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv
>

[Victor Martinez]

Paulo wrote:
> The only problem i can find with the angels is if they are going to be
> aggfresive with the restoof the fishes. I remember once, many years ago, an
> angelfish kill all my neons...didnt eat them but kill them....

As with most ciclids, it's best not to have fish small enough to fit in
their mouths... :)
In the wild, neons are angel food.

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[Maggie Davey]

Paulo wrote:

> Well, but I understand the angelfish is a territorial fish and can attack my
> other fishs (Rasbora, neon, rummy nose)

Tiger barbs are also pretty good at keeping fry numbers down, but I
don't know how they'd do with your other fish. They don't get very big
[about 2 inches or so], but they are fairly boisterous and tend to be
fin-nippers. If you have room for 5 or 6 of them, they pick on each
other rather than the other fish - mostly.

HTH

Maggie

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