Planted Guppy Tank. Suggestions? (fry eaters)

[darkforest]

I have aqquired several tanks and I'm in the process of planning my next tank and I'm looking for ideas/thoughts etc. Here is my basic premise, a planted fancy guppy tank. I've got several sizes of tanks I can use, I was thinking of using one of the tanks from 15, 20, 30 or 50 gallon.

Anyway, one of the things I'm wondering about is population control. In the past I couldn't *give* them away fast enough... I'd like suggestions on species that will be *big enough* to eat some of the guppy fry but small enough and not aggressive enough to fin-nip/terrorize the adult guppies.

I'm thinking of planting the tank on multiple levels, using pieces of driftwood to give height and anchorage to the various plants. I havn't yet decided on how much lighting i'm going to put on it.

Anyway, any thoughts would be appreciated.

 

[Jchillin]

Moved to Planted Tank forum

 

[Simpte]

Most fish will eat fry. But something a bit larger would be a few male mollies, a pair or trio of rams or apistos, or maybe 2 rainbows.

 

[Tiffi]

dwarf gouramis will eat fry. I have a female dwarf gourami and saw her hunting endler fry a few days ago. Since then I've not seen the fry again, but I already have like 80 in a breeder net, so it's not a big loss.

I don't think mollies are such a good idea, unless they are all males. If you take females and males too you have two populations reproducing like crazy.

 

[rich311k]

I think a pair of rams in a well planted tank with the guppies would make a really nice display.