We purchased the 40-gallon tank with all the guppies included. During the 1-hour or more transfer from tank to tank, we didn't lose ONE guppy, so now we have probably 30 or so adults/teenagers/babies. Including 5 or more pregnant females. I remember the guy I purchased them from said there was a way to change the water temp or something so they slowed or even stopped breeding. Is there truly a way?
2007-01-18 02:54:18 · 16 answers · asked by Amanda 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
Hahahahahaha..
Ya'll are funny.
I didn't figure the answer was so freakin' obvious =P
2007-01-18 03:00:07 · update #1
You either have to remove the males or the females from your tank. If not there is no way to stop the little horny bastards.
2007-01-18 02:58:38 · answer #1 · answered by cowboybronco01 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Amanda,
There is no way to stop guppies from breeding. Buy yourself an angel fish or two. They are beautiful fish and love baby guppies. You will have no more problems with too many guppies. If there comes a time when you want some more guppies, then just separate the angels and, voila', more guppies.
If you don't feel right about letting an angel fish eat the babies, then bag the extras up and give them to the fish store nearest you. They will be glad to get them and may even give you some fish food in return. This will only work if they are fancy tailed guppies, the commons are sold as live food for..... angels and other carnivorous fish.
2007-01-18 03:16:25 · answer #2 · answered by 8 In the corner 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
you could put a divider in and separate the females from males. Mine just stopped breeding on their own... or maybe they just eat them all, but after a while I stopped seeing fry. I only have 7 in a 10 gallon tank though. I think they automatically reduce their population when there are too many of them. You could also get some angel fish and put them in there. They eat LOTS of guppy fry. Even when they get bigger.
2007-01-18 02:59:46 · answer #3 · answered by Atousa 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Short answer - no way at all. Once a female has been mated she can store the sperm and produce several broods of babies. The only way to control breeding is to seperate them by sex as early as possible and even then sometimes you are too slow or make an error sexing them and have a problem.
2007-01-18 03:00:49 · answer #4 · answered by magicman116 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
it truly is harder than it sounds. lady guppies may have 3 or extra broods from one mating. you would possibly want to ought to split the boys and women folk, watch for all the ladies to drop all their fry(might want to take some months), and separate all the male and woman fry previously they attain adulthood.
2016-11-25 01:17:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try separating them, put dividers in the tank or something...
2007-01-18 02:57:16 · answer #6 · answered by Michael n 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
just go out and buy urself a4-6" oscar he will put a stop to all that hanky panky for sure
2007-01-19 18:43:51 · answer #7 · answered by slapjack458 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Seperate the males from the females...
You could give me all your guppys, my oscars would LOVE to eat them!
2007-01-18 03:35:24 · answer #8 · answered by Kari R 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Get them all their own separate tanks.
2007-01-18 02:57:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. If you were in a room with a bunch of naked women that wanted you, is there anything that would stop you? Oh wait your a girl, maybe you wouldn't understand.
2007-01-18 02:56:55 · answer #10 · answered by kdog 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋