Letting fry fend for themselves

[weswest]

I have just started to keep fish, and already one of my mollies is pregnant. I have read the postings on breeding nets, however I don't really want to fool around with one right now.

This is my only aquarium, so my plan was to just let the fry fend for themselves. There are plenty of fake plants and large gravel for the fry to hide in, so my thinking was that the strong will survive, just like in nature. The tank has mollies, gupies and endlers in it, so the largest fish are the mollies.

My question is if this is seen as a cruel practice in the fishkeeping community.

Please leave your opinion on this matter, even if it is a one line response.

Thanks

 

[OohFeeshy]

Its not really cruel. Considering they have fry all the time, and if you did use a breeding net you'd be overrun, natural selection is the best method of keeping down numbers. IMO, anyway.

 

[Aquagurl]

dun wanna use breeding net? sure.
make sure you have lots of plants in the bottom, if u want some babies to survive!!
by letting them survive on their own, u hav less chances of fry surviving!

hehe ur choice! but consider using breedin net in the future!
i hope sum fry survives!!!