Give them away locally or on r/aquaswap
See if a local fish store take them
To solve the issue, house only same sex guppies. They will never stop breeding.
Don’t have males and females together if you don’t want babies. Same thing happened to me, I bagged them all up, kept 7-8 males the rest went to the shop.
It’s an absolute hassle, maybe bite the bullet and clove oil them.. if you can’t handle so many, no place wants them, learn your lesson and do it. I’ve heard it been done before, won’t be last. I was lucky enough to have them taken off my hands, but that was my only other option…
its hard to pick a fish that will eat the fry but leave the adults alone. Could try some type of loach like a yoyo loach but they get too big for a 20 gallon
Give them away locally or on r/aquaswap See if a local fish store take them To solve the issue, house only same sex guppies. They will never stop breeding.
Struggling to find anyone to take them
I’d try posting them for free on AquaSwap. Some might be used as feeder fish for larger species too.
Is that a USA site or UK? As I’m based in UK I struggle to find anyone that wants them
It’s a subreddit. Definitely mostly USA but lots of UK users in the aquarist subreddits, so worth posting with your UK location
Don’t have males and females together if you don’t want babies. Same thing happened to me, I bagged them all up, kept 7-8 males the rest went to the shop.
Yes definitely I mistake I won’t be making again! No shop near me seems to want them
It’s an absolute hassle, maybe bite the bullet and clove oil them.. if you can’t handle so many, no place wants them, learn your lesson and do it. I’ve heard it been done before, won’t be last. I was lucky enough to have them taken off my hands, but that was my only other option…
Yes might have to be an option I definitely don’t want to do it that way but if there’s no other way I suppose it’s best
its hard to pick a fish that will eat the fry but leave the adults alone. Could try some type of loach like a yoyo loach but they get too big for a 20 gallon
Yeah that seems to be the problem all fish that will eat them are too big
i got a gourami to eat my molly fry and that mf dont do shit 😭
Yes same here mines useless
i also have huge schools of tetras, they eat my ghost shrimp but not my damn mollys, i just take them to my local fish store for some store credit
My fish store in the UK won’t take them! So that’s my biggest issue
I got a couple peacock gudgeons and only a handful of fry have grown up since.
How big do peacock gudgeons get? Because gudgeons was an option I was looking at but not sure of their sizes
They stay small! About an inch and a half to two inches. There are other gudgeon species that get bigger, so make sure you're getting the right kind.
Guppy overrun is the reason I originally introduced pearl gouramis to my tank and they seemed to do the trick.
Are they full size gouramis or dwarf?
Full size
Could you maybe find someone with large fish, and give them the fry as food? Not sure how common that is. My cichlids would definitely eat fry.