I don't have the heart....

[daydreamer4186]

I have guppies and mollies that all have fry on a reguler basis. I keep saying that I am going to stop separating the females to give birth and let nature take its course instead. Well Everytime I see a female ready to drop, I put them in a net and scoop up all the fry. My last drop was 40 fry! For anyone who lets nature take its course, about what percentage of your fry actually survive?

 

[tbonem91]

for my guppys - about 10% or so survive - the rest usually dissapear in the first 2 days

 

[Zagz]

I run about the opposite ratio, about 90% of mine survive. Due to a lot of guppy grass for them to hide in.

 

[hsherman1986]

i am the same way as you. Everytime i see one of my platies ready to drop, in to the net they go. I just had one drop 20+ tonight. I am getting ready to pull the babies out right now. I have a 99% survival rate (so far the only one that has died was the stillborn from one of the last drops. and whatever ones the mollies eat, because i can never tell when they are ready to drop)

 

[Ky'smommy]

we'll when our babies are born they are put in a thank with three big red belly piranahs. we just added a new addition of two more RBP...
But none have been eaten yet. Not even one.
and last batch of baby out of 20 we got 5 the beta and other fish (mollies and guppies) eat them.
Our very first batch of guppies. They are 2 months old and still living with the piranahs until we can find a place for them..

or second batch 5 outta 30 dont know i had massive dannios and they ate them until i seperated them. but i have a red tailed shark and he killed thos dannios for attacking the babies. chased them around and beat them until they both died. Even after all the babies were gone.

 

[BrianNY]

I've no problem with allowing fry to fend for themselves. It is natures way. However, allowing a red tail shark to punish your danios is irresponsible fish keeping.[/quote]

 

[DepotFish]

My mother's guppy tank has had maybe twelve adults for the past several years. The babies rarely survive. This is probably due to few feedings. She recently seperated the boys into a new tank to give the females and babies some time to grow out before reproducing. We now have about a dozen adult females and nine males. The females are still popping out fry and eating them as fast as possible. I've never seen more than two dozen fry on a given day, usually its more like five.