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My dad's finally letting me clean his guppy tank (he thought water changes were bad for the fish before ). It's a 29g that looks a lot better now that I've changed the water, but there are still tonsof guppies. He absolutely refuses to return any to the petstore. I took out the spikey plastic plants and there aren't any good hiding caves, so I'm hoping that will reduce the baby population a bit, but is there any way to get the total population under control?:%)

Would you be open to adding other fish? It sounds like the population is so out of control that adding more fish might be deadly to the new fish. Would it be possible to give the fish away? Any friends? I'm sure if you put an advertisement on this site some ppl might answer. WHere are you located?

Yes you have several options:

1. take some of the larger ones back to an lfs (local fish store) for store credit, and don't let dad know

2. take out all the females again without dad knowing and sell them/give them away

3. I hate this thought but if it is getting that bad and dad refuses the other two or what have you, go get 2-3 betta girls, and some live plants. The betta girls will take care of the problem just fine for you, as I'm sure 1 male betta would Just ask pugperson what happens when you have a guppy drop fry with some piggy betta girls are present in the tank...

best of luck, heidi

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Raise the fry & sell them to LFS or give them free to your friends.


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the best way is to give them away to your friends or lfs.

for baby control, get the betta girls i have 6 betta girls and a half banded loach for my 29 gallon, 1 just dropped, but i havent seen any fry yet, but that will soon change

Guppy fry are very good at hiding. For instance, today I found about a month old guppy fry in my tank that had managed to not get eaten and not be seen my me (I fish out baby guppies and put them in a grow out tank).

i agree with benny they are very good at hiding cause one time i went to help a friend out with his tank there two guppy fri in the sump of the wet dry filter

I agree with Heidi, betta girls are very good at controlling guppy population controls. In my 2ft planted, my guppies was breeding that bad...I had to give them away every 2 weeks. So I decided to get 5 betta girls, they had a fun time alright! Success! In a few weeks most babies are gone and the tank is very stable now.

Gouramis and angels are also excellent with population control

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Well, my little brother has a male betta, but that would go after all of them, wouldn't he? So females just eat the babies? The numbers do seem to be lessening a bit, but still very high, so is it safe to add a new fish? If it's not completely safe, I could get something that I could move upstairs after a while, I guess. My other 29 g. tank has 2 platies, 2 guppies, and 1 paradise fish, all female.

My Zebra Danios seem to be doing a perfect job of Platy population control. Since combining the Danios and Platies, I haven't seem a single fry yet. And they have been together for about 2 months.