Do guppies eat baby guppys?

[little guppy]

Fine.

 

[balton777]

Yeah right, as if.

And stop airing our dirty laundry on MFK.

 

[metalyx]

Something to consider, except in the rare pure filter feeder fish, fish will eat what will fit in their mouth. Any smaller fish becomes game for larger fish. You might see some difference as with mouth brooders and bettas, so for and so on, but eventually they will still get eaten by the larger fish.

 

[little guppy]

somewhere else Dad!

 

[little guppy]

I love guppies.

 

[balton777]

I love guppies.

So do my fish.

 

[little guppy]

Something to consider, except in the rare pure filter feeder fish, fish will eat what will fit in their mouth. Any smaller fish becomes game for larger fish. You might see some difference as with mouth brooders and bettas, so for and so on, but eventually they will still get eaten by the larger fish.

Thankyou for an intelligent reply.

 

[Lupin]

Frankly, if you do not have the space and money to accommodate all the resulting newborn guppies, then leave the babies to be fed to the adults. As nasty as it sounds, how do you expect to accommodate everyone if you keep saving every new fry and later on, get overwhelmed by the number of fish? Guppies are not known as "million fish" for nothing at all. They can drop an average of 15-50 fry per batch. Do you really think you can support thousands of them in a few months? That's something I would not waste time unless you have other fish whom you can feed the guppies to.

 

[bigspizz]

somewhere else Dad!

Too cute!

 

[balton777]

Frankly, if you do not have the space and money to accommodate all the resulting newborn guppies, then leave the babies to be fed to the adults. As nasty as it sounds, how do you expect to accommodate everyone if you keep saving every new fry and later on, get overwhelmed by the number of fish? Guppies are not known as "million fish" for nothing at all. They can drop an average of 15-50 fry per batch. Do you really think you can support thousands of them in a few months? That's something I would not waste time unless you have other fish whom you can feed the guppies to.

Makes perfect sense to me. For the longest time, she didn't have a clue.