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[125gJoe]

Nice pics! Welcome aboard..

 

[kveeti]

Originally posted by AquariCam
I have decided to breed my guppies 'au natural' and don't put fry in a birthing tank. I'll let them give birth in the main tank and wait to see how may survive - so far 6 from 2 births. IMHO and in the words of an old favourite "only the stong survive" maybe thats why he is a good specimen?

I did that at first. Yes, only the odd one or two would survive the first few months.... I don't know what happened, whether the adults now are just too "used" to having babies around, or they're getting tired of the same old dinner.... but now I have way too many and they're not getting eaten; my betta can't even keep up any more.

But you have bigger fish than I do, so you probably won't have the same problem.

 

[AquariCam]

I'm not after loads of guppies in the tank so I'll just see if nature takes it course, will wait and see. I did go through a phase of losing fish a while back and one day saw one of my pim pictus cats swallowing one of my pristella tetras - he had 4 in total and a couple of adult guppies.