mother eating babies

[stephen728]

I had asked earlier what to do with a pregnant guppy in my community aquarium (whether to keep it in or take it out of the fish net breeder) and i was wondering if i would keep it in and the mother had the babies while i was gone would it eat all of them considering the enclosed environment. would they have a better chance of living if they were born in the aquarium with access to plants to hide and i could come back and collect the ones i find to put in the net?

[blitzen25bm]

put a lot of plants in there for them to hide, real or fake. and if you can find it javamoss really good for baby fish to hide in. then you can let them grow there if theres enough plants and you dont mind losing some. otherwise put them into a growout tank.

[yashinfan]

My fry burrowed into the gravel and didn't come out until I removed the mother. Freaked me out when I went away and came back to see 11 fry!

[travelinman1969]

blitzen is right. lots of plants, they'll go straight to em. Make sure there are some on top, first place they go when they come out. You can do it 2 ways, I've done both. Put plenty of plants in there and whoever lives does. Or you can scoop em out and put em in a growout tanks, however, It's nothing to turn 2 swords, guppies, etc. into 100+ in a year. Depends on what you want to do. The last mollies tank I had I just left em in. That seemed to repopulate the tank as the older ones died. I had that tank for 9 years and I never had more than 20-25 mollies at a time. That was in a 29 gallon. Good Luck