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What type of bigger fish could I put into my 30 gallon tank to help keep the baby supply down? In my tank I now have some guppies, mollies, and a small placo, all together their is about 20 fish but they keep having babies to fast and my friends are running out of room to help me keep them LoL. I thought they would eat their own babies to control this problem but they dont seem to be eating them :( But I dont want the fish to be able to eat my already grown ones, Just they new babies they keep having.
SayersWeb
12-08-2003, 7:40 PM
Any good sized Tetras should eat the baby guppies...
Would that eat my other fish also or just the new babies that they keep having ?
aquariumfishguy
12-08-2003, 8:16 PM
If you plan well and stock accordingly (2 females:1 male) you shouldn't have lots of fry. If you get 'lucky' and have a pregnant female she will drop the fry and whoever sees them will eat 'em! Its harder than you think to get mass amounts of fry...;)
SayersWeb
12-08-2003, 8:30 PM
No... the Bleeding Heart and Buenes Aries Tetras in my 20 gallon ate cichlid fry, but they certainly would not eat full sized guppies. They are too small.
ive heard those lil halfbeaks are good that controllin baby populations