Guppies With Female Fighters

[LongS]

I have a mixture of female and male guppies and would like to add some female fighters.

To keep the stress low for the Female fighters i was going to keep more female guppies than males.

I was just wondering if the female fighters would help control the unwanted births! I would like to keep maybe two or three males and many more females but dont want the continued breeding.

Whats the best fish to have in the community to help control this?

 

[OldMan47]

I keep a male betta splendens in my endler tank to help control the population explosion but I can't say that he is very good at his job. With a mixed age population in the tank, even the betta seems to ignore most of the fry.

 

[kelly528]

Probably if you had enough of them. Lord knows my boy loves to snack on full-grown endler males given the chance but there's only so much a betta can put away in one sitting

 

[loraxchick]

agree with old man.
i had put some fry in my planted betta tank, hopeful that he would help control the numbers of survivors. out of 18 he only ate 2, and that was in the first day. after that, he really just ignored them, or couldnt catch the remaining fry, then they got too big for him to eat (they grew pretty quickly). i assumed the 2 he got were weaker/deformed in some way which is why he managed them and not the others.
A betta managing to eat fully grown endlers? how big is YOUR betta
however, perhaps with several females (and not just 1 male) the group of girlies would be more effective.
cheers

 

[LongS]

Thats what i was thinking must be a pretty big betta! Pretty scary if you ask me i wouldn't put my hand in

Yeah hopefully with a few females in there they might be a bit more affective. I've seen them being kept alot with female guppies alone, but i have some nice looking males i want to keep in there. I'm a sucker for them i can't seem to completely get rid of them all.

Most will go to the pet shop though.