"Elaine T" wrote in message
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Ali Day wrote:
"Ali Day" wrote in message
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Can anyone recommend a fish that will eat fry, without hassling any other
fish in my 170 gal community tank.
Ph 6.9 - 7.1
Temp 27
dH 12

Taking into account 'crap factor' I have equivalent of 98 inches of fish
in the tank.

My wife wanted a couple of guppies in the tank and even though my tank is
at the edge of their recommended environment, they are now breeding like
crazy and another few weeks of this and my tank will be over run.



Thanks NetMax, Tynk and everyone else for your suggestions, I also went
asked the one guy in the LFS I can trust so ended up with

5 Diamonds tetras
7 Cardinals
5 Leopard danios

And maybe a betta at the end of this week Tynk

They seem to be disappearing, but I've had another 10 or so born in the
last few days. What is the gestation of the guppy I seem to be seeing
about 10 new ones every 10 days from three females, and more growing as
we speak.

FWIW, I put a betta in with a shoal of cardinals once. The mild mannered
littl ecardinals suddenly turned into a pack of vicious fin-nippers and I
had to get the betta out of there fast! I've seen bettas and cardinals
cohabiting in other tanks so this doesn't always happen, but you might
want to have a backup plan for the betta.

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Elaine T

LOL on image of marauding Cardinal tetras expressing their dark inner
piranha feelings ;~). I can see this happening though.
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