The stocking levels that you have now will mean almost no fry survivors without a breeder of some sort. Although I prefer to use a separate tank for a fry drop, when I want to save fry, breeders have been used for decades by many successful breeders.
I find that too often someone's preference for a particular method becomes the only way to do things on a forum. On this forum livebearer fans mostly do not use breeders, so on this forum they end up being considered wrong. In some other places, people will tell you that the only way to have survivors is to use a breeder. In reality, each of us learns to do things in a way that we like and then that becomes our own individual technique, but we all need to remember that other people do just as well with their methods too.
I find that too often someone's preference for a particular method becomes the only way to do things on a forum. On this forum livebearer fans mostly do not use breeders, so on this forum they end up being considered wrong. In some other places, people will tell you that the only way to have survivors is to use a breeder. In reality, each of us learns to do things in a way that we like and then that becomes our own individual technique, but we all need to remember that other people do just as well with their methods too.
