Guppy fry problem

[Coryking]

Hello there. I have recently planted my 20gallon aquarium and my guppies/ endler have exploded in fry for the past few weeks and nothing is eating them. I have around 15 full size guppies / endler hybrid. I brought 3 dwarf gourami 2 weeks ago to lower the fry numbers and they got ride of a few but nearly enough. I have been locking at scarlet badis and I am wondering if anyone has experience with them or any alternatives. The current stocking is 9 clown killis 15 guppys/ ender hybrid, 6 neon Tetra, 3 ammo shrimp, 1 gaint fan shrimp, 3 dwarf gouramis, 1 Otto, 3 dwarf neon gobies, 6 African dwarf frogs and, 6 Panda Cory. At a later date I will move my 6 albino Cory into the tank. Thanks very much

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

You're already very heavily stocked even leaving the guppy/endler youngsters aside, so I wouldn't recommend adding more fish to eat them.

Otos also need to be kept in groups of 5-6 minimum. They live in groups of thousands in the wild, and it's cruel how people keep just one or two as algae eaters, forgetting these are wild caught fish that came from a school of thousands - with needs of their own. So you also need to get some more otos, and remember to add algae wafers from time to time to be sure they have enough to eat.

Have you asked any local fish stores if they're willing to take them once they're a sellable size? Some will, especially the privately owned stores - chains are less likely to take them.
If you can't find a store to take young, or don't want to sell them privately, then you need to sell or rehome the female livebearers, since they'll keep producing more. This is always the risk when you get livebearers.

 

[Coryking]

You're already very heavily stocked even leaving the guppy/endler youngsters aside, so I wouldn't recommend adding more fish to eat them.

Otos also need to be kept in groups of 5-6 minimum. They live in groups of thousands in the wild, and it's cruel how people keep just one or two as algae eaters, forgetting these are wild caught fish that came from a school of thousands - with needs of their own. So you also need to get some more otos, and remember to add algae wafers from time to time to be sure they have enough to eat.

Have you asked any local fish stores if they're willing to take them once they're a sellable size? Some will, especially the privately owned stores - chains are less likely to take them.
If you can't find a store to take young, or don't want to sell them privately, then you need to sell or rehome the female livebearers, since they'll keep producing more. This is always the risk when you get livebearers.

Sadly no LFS will take guppies. I can try to remove some full size fry and try to feed them to my three spot gourami of course the fry will repopulate that's why I need something to deal with them. I once had 4 Ottos but a disease or something wiped out most of the tank leaving one Otto, 2 neons and one red phantom Tetra.
I can hopefully get the numbers down to 8 hybrids and just have males. But I will need something for the fry since I won't be able to net them all out and I will still have 2 female guppies. That's why I need something to deal with them. Do you have any recommendations.

 

[Mb7640]

When I had mollies and a lot of fry I gave them to my local petco. They were more than happy to take them

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

I will still have 2 female guppies. That's why I need something to deal with them. Do you have any recommendations.

Sell them privately via gumtree, BAND and similar (or more accurately, give them away if you can). Rehome the female guppies since you can't house or rehome fry anyway.

I don't have any recommendations for fish that will eat fry, because I think that's kinda unethical in my mind, done this way at least. Any fish large and predatory enough to consistently polish off a lot of guppy fry, is also going to be too large and predatory to live in your community tank.

Why did you get both male and female guppies, if you can't manage fry?

 

[Coryking]

Why did you get both male and female guppies, if you can't manage fry?

Firstly I saved the guppies from a couple who's silicone collapsed. I managed to raise some in a breeding box since I wanted a few more but now since I've planted the tank nothing is eaten them.

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I don't have any recommendations for fish that will eat fry, because I think that's kinda unethical in my mind, done this way at least. Any fish large and predatory enough to consistently polish off a lot of guppy fry, is also going to be too large and predatory to live in your community tank.

It may be unethical to you but it is natural. I was not thinking of a large fish I was thinking of a few scarlet badis as mentioned before they rarely eat anything other than live food.

 

[GaryE]

Just wait and be patient. The African frogs may start eating anything they can catch.

 

[Coryking]

Just wait and be patient. The African frogs may start eating anything they can catch.

They have eaten a few but the fry have moved to the middle section of the tank and the frogs have been spending most of there time at the bottom of the tank