I went to walmart & they ended up giving me a male guppy & a few babies by accident. I have tetras in my tank now and they are chasing everyone im not sure what to do about it, i dont want them to kill the babies.
2007-04-12 08:08:31 · 5 answers · asked by hiii=] 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
They will eat the babies if they can fit them in their mouths. The only solution would be to seperate them or return the babies.
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2007-04-12 08:56:29 · answer #1 · answered by magicman116 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry about the babies. If they do get eaten, they weren't strong enough to survive. A word of caution, though; tetras are very prone to eating the tail fins of guppies and killing them, so I wouldn't suggest keeping them together.
If you really do want the babies to survive, put some plants (plastic or live) in the tank, to offer them a place to hide. The babies will most likely swim around the surface, so make sure the plants are nice and tall. You could also put them in a nursery, but they grow faster when they have a lot of room to swim.
2007-04-12 15:24:40 · answer #2 · answered by Courtney 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
get the babies and transfer them to a new tank. make sure you get water from your old tank to lessen the chances of stress for the babies. feed them proper baby flakes and in a few months you could already add them to your tank.
2007-04-12 15:51:29 · answer #3 · answered by janine w 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take the babies out and put them in another aquarium if possible, if not, bring them back to the store. ( preferably other than wal-mart... )
or you can get a breeding net, or plexiglass to split the aquarium to seperate the tetras and the guppies...
Ps. wal-mart is crap at keeping pets...
2007-04-12 15:14:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
get yourself a divider. or a brooder box type thing that you can use till the babys get bigger.....hope this helps......
2007-04-12 15:21:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋