Is this cruel?

[probassfisher010]

Last night I threw two female guppies (that I'm breeding for feeders) into my bichir tank, and after a few poor attempts with the lights on, they couldn't catch them. I turned off the lights, this morning, no guppies. Tonight, I see about 5 baby guppies in the tank... What a terrible child birth that must have been...constant bichir harassment, and death.

Should I remove the babies and throw them into the breeding tank? (guppy paradise) or let them be dinner.

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[probassfisher010]

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[archers]

Chances are your bichirs wont catch them untill bigger

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[karaig19]

lets see guppy paradise!!!!!!

 

[probassfisher010]

True, I bet they have a higher chance of being sucked into a filter then being eaten. My planted tank which has the guppies probably would have the same survival rate as growing up in the bichir tank, thanks to the other fish and the ac110. Either way I throw them into the tank for food when they are larger, tough life for a guppy...

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[boldtogether]

Survival of the fittest.

 

[Chicxulub]

If they've got the same chance of survival either way, leave them where they are.

boldtogether, thats a really nice looking koi in your avatar.

 

[Crazy mike]

Nope not cruel. Sounds like they have a better chance in there anyway


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[Thelatinofishlover]

If they've got the same chance of survival either way, leave them where they are.

boldtogether, thats a really nice looking koi in your avatar.

+1

 

[probassfisher010]

lets see guppy paradise!!!!!!

Here's guppy paradise, well adult guppy paradise. Tank has 6 original parent guppies, probably about 20 juveniles and 15 babies in there also, sacrifice 2-4 a week.

Inhabitants are: breeding pair (guarding eggs) of gbr, two paradise fish that I can't get to spawn, reticulated hill stream loach, african dwarf frog, 5 cobalt gobies, three zebra nerite snails, and apparently I got mts on some plants recently, I see a bunch of babies all of a sudden...

Plants are all live except the few in the back left corner


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