What should i do if the parent fish ARE NOT eating their babies? i NEED the babies to die (srry if thats mean)

Question

yea well my tank is filled with guppies and mollies and i dont want any more babies but they keep showing up. HELP ME!!

Answer 1

maybe sell them to a pet shop

Answer 2

well to make sure remove all the males or females from the tank and take them back to the pet store and the babbies put some listings in the paper or flush them down the toilet I know it sounds mean but they dont even know the all ready swim in poo sorry I couldn't help much good luck

Answer 3

Well, I say you can take advantage of this situation. Catch all the guppies and mollies, and take them to a local pet store or something and ask if they'll take them. Many many many places will pay you for them. And if babies keep showing up-- more money for you! OR if you dont want anymore babies, take your fish to a pet shop, buy another tank, get someone to tell you which ones are male and which are female- and separate them!

LOL, plus the fish will (hopefully) have a chance to have a life (well... as much a life as a fish can achieve!)

Answer 4

i now plenty of places that will buy guppy fry for feeders, look at local pet shops.  not like petsmart or petco...locally owned places.  Other than that, see if your friends have large fish like oscars or cichlids... even bettas will eat small fry.  it's not mean, people feed babies to larger or aggressive fish all the time.  try posting on craigslist to see if anyone needs feeders.

my sister suggested putting a platty in there...A MALE because you don't want to get a pregnant female (though she'd eat the young).

Good luck!

Answer 5

How many times are you going to ask this question?  Don't want a cichlid?  Get 3-4 female bettas.  Or a couple male swordtails.  2-3 paradise fish.  Advertise in the paper or at the pet store that you have baby to young guppies to give away.

Separate the males and females.  If you like the color, keep only the males you want and no females in the tank.  Get rid of the rest.

Answer 6

A lot of good answers already.

If you can't sell them, or give them away, try adding a Betta. I once stuck a Betta in a tank with some guppies and Platies as a temporary home 'til I fixed up something better. Next thing I noticed, he was sneaking up on well-hidden baby fish and eating them, even though the tank was well filled with floating plants for the babies to hide in. He didn't bother the adult fishes, but could he ever sniff out the hiding babies..

I disagree with the suggestion of llriffel about adding angel fish. He says they won't bother the adults. I once put some small angels in a tank with fancy guppies, again as a temporary measure. I noticed that there seemed to be fewer guppies a few days later, so I watched the tank for a while. I saw an angel catch one of the males by the tail. He was trying to swallow the guppy. the guppy managed to get away, minus most of his tail. Then I saw an angel swallowing a guppy head first - it didn't get away. These were adult guppies. I was shocked because I didn't think the angels could even get their mouths open wide enough, let alone catch and swallow the adult guppies! They were small angels, about the size of a Loonie or a Toonie (Canadian $1 & $2 coins), and the guppies  were quite a decent size. Who knows, maybe it was a particularly vicious strain of angels. But let's face it, angels are cichlids. I have decided that I don't particularly care for angels: They look so sweet & "angelic", but they go after my fancy guppies with a vengeance.

Well, that's my experience, and my opinion. Maybe they were just a particularly nasty batch of angels, but it left a bad taste in my mouth towards angels as community fish.

Answer 7

to get rid of guppies

1. buy a fish that will eat them

2. give them away

3. sell them

4. eat them (not recommended)

5. buy 2 new tanks

1 for males one for females

Answer 8

get an apple snail or a shrimp. it will eat all future eggs, then no more babies will arrive until you remove the snail or shrimp. try ghost shrimp, or the red cherry shrimp...  or get a opaline gourami, they stay small, wont eat the adults, but they will eat the eggs and the babies.   and they are very attractive.

Answer 9

either check into giving to shops, your friends or people looking for them.

or quit feeding and they will start eating each other.

Answer 10

You should buy a more aggressive fish that will eat them. Just make sure the type of fish you get won't be too aggressive towards your old fish. Ask the people at the pet store what they recommend .

Answer 11

well if you want to get a fish that will eat them but don't want to harm the adults then it would be best if you got another tank to put the meaner fish into then you could dip out the babies and feed the other fish

most of the fish I can think of may bother the adults and alot of them will get big enough to eat the adults

the sujestion of an angel fish may be a good idea even full grown they can't swollow an adult guppie or mollie but you whave to be carefull where you get them from places like wal-mart and petsmart are bad for angels see if your local petstore gets them froma local breeder

Answer 12

Take them out and smash them with a hammer.