Platy Fry In A Community Tank

[PrairieSunflower]

My grumpy platy who refuses to be happy living with her own kind, lives in my community tank (female guppies and neon tetras).

She has EVERY symptom there is that she is either giving birth now and I haven't spotted the babies hiding or she will at any second. (She had her previous batch 29 days ago)... So, I am raising the previous batch, and a few that were surprises from another platy (3 babies)... and I don't want anymore...

... if I just don't feed my community tank for a day or two... will that likely take care of the problem?

 

[jen1bee]

Had platies in a community tank years ago, didn't not feed the tank but still never had any fry survive to adults - did have an angelfish in there though

 

[Daveo026]

I had danios best fish ever at keeping unwanted fry down

 

[PrairieSunflower]

I have limited how many fry I will have in that all my guppies are female and either virgin or no longer producing... but... I fell in love with this grumpy platy a couple months back and... well... she came fully loaded. LOL

Are danios a good community fish? Safe to be with neons, guppies and Mrs Grumpy platy? Wouldn't mind something to keep the trouble at bay. I've not had them before.

 

[Daveo026]

They are fine with neons and platy but guppy they may nip mine nipped my friends didn't can be risky
I've been told the smaller gourami are fairly good at fry hunting

 

[PrairieSunflower]

Hmmm... I'd like to keep my guppies nibble free.

 

[PrairieSunflower]

Update.... the babies were born about a week ago... and I thought they all.... met their fate... but, I spotted one lone survivor... and I am good with that so I moved it to my platy tank... I figure it deserves to survive if I managed to avoid being eaten by the she-group of guppies.