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[mickey]

MY NEPHEW HAS A 10 GALLON WITH 6 GUPPIES AND A FEW NEON TETRAS THE GUPPIES ARE BREEDING PROLIFICLY BUT THE ADULTS KEEP EATING THE FRY. (AS THEY DO) THIS SADDENS MY NEPHEW GREATLY, HE IS ONLY 10YRS OLD.
HE DOSN,T HAVE ANOTHER TANK TO MOVE THE ADULTS TO WHEN THERE ARE FRY IN THE TANK, WHAT ARE HIS BEST ALTERNATIVES
IE.A FLOATING PLANT,JAVA MOSS?
SUGGESTIONS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
HE WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SAVE A FEW FRY.
CHEERS.

 

[Anaxus]

What about something like this to put the fry in if you can catch them.
http://www.petsmart.com/fish/shopping/miscellaneous_supplies/products/product_11559.shtml
or http://www.petsmart.com/fish/shopping/miscellaneous_supplies/products/product_26991.shtml

I remember along time ago using something similar to this. Im sure others will have better suggestions.

 

[dbcb314]

they have these breeding net things that go in the top of the tank to put fry in. they work pretty good if the fry arent african cichlid fry

 

[serjuanca888]

What are you going to do with the baby guppys? You will quickly have 100, then more and more. No joke. Happened to me.

Also, chances are the guppies are brothers and sisters. This means all of the babies will be inbreds. This is a very common problem with livebearers.

Where I live the fish stores/pet stores wont buy guppies. They might take them and feed them to other fish or sell them as feeders, but they wont take them for two reasons: 1) they know more than likely they are inbred 2) they have enough anyways.

Personally I'd just let the big guppies eat the babies.

 

[kveeti]

I would use floating plants on the top and java moss on the bottom of the tank, and a few smart fry will survive. There are also dense plastic plant mats for fry (sample at link below). You don’t want them all to survive or he’ll soon be overrun with guppies. In my experience, this is better than the traps for a few reasons: the adult female gets stressed in the trap if she is in there too long; she might give birth prematurely. You can’t raise a big batch of fry in the trap for too long or they will be stunted. A trap would be all right for a few but you really have to be meticulous about cleaning them. I always found that releasing fry from a trap afterwards is a problem, too. Even though the adults saw them there every day, they get harassed to the extreme when released, but somehow the fry that survive and grow up in the tank are hardly chased at all. Another alternative is to make up a divider for the tank itself where the female could live until after birth and them be removed.

http://www.bigalsonline.com/product_images/ASWO16660a.gif

 

[mickey]

Thanks to everyone for their links and responses,but i think i will advise him to go with kveeti,s ideas as he just wants to see a few fry survive and not all get eaten.
BTW.His males and females were purchased at 2 different LFS so hopefully they will not be inbred, although you can never be sure .
CHEERS.