Flushable - you lied to us!
You are not ugly on the inside at all!
(Will I ever be able to trust you again?
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You are not ugly on the inside at all!
(Will I ever be able to trust you again?
)
Nope. Probably shouldn't have from the get go.
While my guppy fry are not specifically bred for the purpose of feeding, I have fed entire batches of Primal's babies to my various betta fish. I was very careful in how I did so, going so far as drip acclimating them to the betta tanks (going from hard brackish water to softer betta water) and one of them managed to escape my king betta and lives as an adult in my guppy community tank (male). Now that my female guppy tank is mature enough to practice population control, I only had to net out a couple of fry as feeders.
Over-population is a huge problem when you have prolific livebearers like guppies, platys etc. If a lot survive, and your local fish places won't take them (because everyone is bringing them hundreds of the li'l tykes), then what do you do? You can't just keep adding more and more aquaria, and they very soon over-populate to the extent that they will die a horrible, slow death from gradual suffocation.
I suppose feeding your excess is kinder than that, or flushing them, which is the other option.
This is why I just buy boys.
NOW you tell me!
To be fair, I was supposed to have 2 females and not one of each. I ended up with a juvenile male and a female. They were together for a short amount of time while he finished maturing. By the time I realize he was a he and not just a slightly more colorful female it was too late. They had been together for 2 weeks and she was preggers.
They are the sex-crazed mice of the aquatic world . . .
Thankfully, she should be finished having babies soon. About three to four months left. Then I will be putting up ads online.
Give half a dozen of the males a little GPS system, and send them across the ocean to me in the UK. The nearest port is Newcastle (where the shipyard used to be). If they can get themselves there and notify me they've arrived I'll meet them at the docks and take them to their new home.
They may need sandwiches. It's quite a trip.
AbbeysDad
Fish Gatherer
First, it goes without saying (er writing) that fish get no respect! But where is the line in the sand I wonder. I feed my fish live foods that I culture and collect...microworms, white worms, daphnia, mosquito larvae. I don't think that I'm sending living creatures to their death. I used to euthanize (with oil of cloves) but now deformed fry and early maturing male swordtails go into the turtle pond where they either live out their life, or become turtle snacks.
I eat meat and quite like seafood...perhaps I'm just evil!
I eat meat and quite like seafood...perhaps I'm just evil!
Why do you say fish get no respect? Almost every single member on here treats their fish with respect.
AbbeysDad
Fish Gatherer
Generally speaking, unless you're really into the hobby, fish are not thought of like other 'pets'. Have you ever heard of the SPCA addressing a fish related issue? Members of my own family would be heartbroken if something was to happen to our dog, but no one but me bats an eye when a fish passes.
They're just not held in high regard like dogs, cats, rabbits.....etc.
Yes, that makes sense. 
unless you have a Dolphin in your backyard pool...
I dont know If I'm the only one here that think that every life matter.So I joined a group for Betta breeding on FB.. on there they feed the fry to the other fish.. majority of them are only breeding for this reason
I have never hunt, fish or any kind of activity that hurts animal or killed them (heck, I have never killed ants....maybe by accident?)
My opinion is that; every life matter, one shoulnt feed living things to another unless it was nature.
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