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I find this to be the perfect way to naturally control the Molly population. My hubby always says this to me when I struggle with this topic "Fish eat fish. It is a fact of life. If you're gonna keep them in a glass box and play God, ya gotta let em live as close to normal as possible." I thank my Fiddler Crabs for their contribution each time I close my eyes and feed them to my Dragon Puffers LOL
Thank you for sharing your testing of how to manage livebearer populations. I think the community needs to talk more about the issue of overpopulation in livebearer tanks. I have seen several folks enter the hobby only to become disillusioned after their tanks overflow with guppies. Many folks don’t have the time or access to gift/sell fish. I keep predators in my tanks and find that added/removing the fry cover (floating plants in my case) is the best means to control how many fry avoid predation and become part of the guppy colony. It would be a great video topic to demonstrate a system to manage livebearer populations: what predators, options for cover, etc. Interestingly enough I use a livebearer, swordtails, in my guppy tanks for fry control. I have a tank with mollies where the swords also keep the fry in check. Of course not all strains of swords are good fry eaters and not all strains of guppies need the swords given some guppies are very good fry eaters. Thanks again for the video!
I like this idea, it's a natural process. Keep us updated. There is a similar balance achieved here in SE Indiana with the predator/prey relationship between fox and rabbits.
I have a mixed tank and have had a few live fish grow from birth to adulthood. But with the mixture of the fish species they seem to be controlling the tank population similar to your mollies and mudskipper experiment. It seems to be in balance now for about 6 months or so
I think creating natural balance in an unnatural environment is always a good thing...I "retired" several harlequin Rasboras, a black neon and a baby eating female guppy into my SA Cichlid community tank and to my amazement, all are still living out their retirement! Apparently, I have the nicest, most chill cichlids ever lol
Very cool experiment! Natural and nutritious for your mudskippers. I had an explosion of convict fry and used some to feed my oscars. Now I have a pair in my tank with my Oscar and pike cichlid. The adults are left alone, but I figure the Oscar and pike could control any fry that are born. Much better than feeders.
Enjoy the idea.this is same rinse I have cherry shrimp in all my tanks. I know some are going to be eaten. aquarium as whole/balanced and it’s been working great.
Great topic! I added a pair of apistos to my livebearer community tank to control the population explosion and it's gone really well...except that now I'm delevoping an interest in keeping more predatory fish (which means yet another new tank setup...😂).
I have a 40g aquarium with 2 baby turtles(almost a year old) and had a whole 10g just for breeding guppies and snails to feed to the turtles. After a few months the 10g was getting over populated and the waste and water changes was too much. Last month I added all the guppies and snails to the 40g. Since my turtles are small they don’t eat the fish since they are kind of fast for them. But the snails are great snacks for them and they love them.
I use two dwarf pike cichlids to control my guppy population and I couldn’t have gone any better the population still grows but at a very slow rate. Perfect.
Cool idea! I’d love to see an update on this. I normally sell or give away extra offspring, but if they’re small enough sometimes I’ll feed culls to my sunfish pond.
This is how I ended up breeding some of the most beautiful, and most hardy, endler crosses. I bought 6 livebearers every week for the turtle to eat, as minnows and other cool water fish produce thiaminase and are not actually suitable feeder fish. Every once in a while, a feeder was too smart and too fast to get caught. I have not had to buy feeders in almost 2 years now.
Hello Mr.Zenzo. How are you? Another great video I might add. I don't know much about mudskippers, but by they way they look and act, they look awesome. I always look forward to your uploads. see you on the next one sir. Have a good one edit: I personally don't have a problem with introducing a predator to an overpop community. To me its a more humane option than to cull.
I personally see no issue in what you're doing. As you say, the tank would become overpopulated causing issues across the board, eventually affecting all the fish in the tank. Makes sense.
Any chance you can do an Mbuna video, I know you did ones in the past. Just an update on them or an update on all the tanks, even the showcase ones upstairs?
A 20 long or 29 would be great. 20 long if you just have the skips. A 29 if you want to have two levels with fish swimming below. I have mine in a 40 to give you an example.
This is a cool idea, ive always been interested in a way to do something similar but everything ive tried has either decimated the adult population or not made a dent at all
That’s what got me away from Molly’s,guppies etc etc is just how often the give birth and how fast they do it I had a ten gallon guppy tank and started with five had almost twelve by the end of the month to much of a headache with them IMO,Beautiful fish but won’t go back to them
It's no worse than when i watched my dwarf danios hunt down their fry, literally skimming the glass and picking them off. Quite a few made it anyway, at least 30 or more of various ages. Too many to count in a 20L tank.
I have a surplus of platy fry right now. I would pull them out of the main tank and put them in a 10 gallon grow out. But I can't seem to get rid of them fast enough. I usually just end up giving them away.
That's what happened with my guppy fry - had to deliver them to the LFS as a donation. I rehomed that tank but want guppies again and am worried about overpopulation. I donated Mama 1's first 8 fry but there were two other sets of 8 and 12 from Mama 1 and Mama 2 waiting their turn for donation. It's a PIA to catch them in a planted tank with wood and rock decorations.
@@cosmoplakat9549 I intentionally leave black worms in the strainer when I rinse the culture, and the fish swim right into the strainer. Once a quarter I separate out which males I like, the females that look healthiest and not pregnant, and the rest go in the turtle pond or to my lfs if they need feeders. Occasionally I sell a proven trio for $20.
I either move my extra guppies outdoors in my small pond or add them to my daughter's small koi pond. I had a Betta with my guppies but she appeared to die my overeating. Thanks for sharing 😌
I tried doing something like that with yo-yo-yo loaches and assassin snails to take care of my ram horns & bladder snails. Well the foot is in the other foot because the yo-yo loaches were still small and didn’t make it. They became snail food sadly. While the assassin snails get one or two snails then go to sleep for a couple of days.
I wish it were real...but sadly, it's a fake plant. I have not been successful with anything growing in my brackish systems except for mangroves and algae. I am keeping my eye out for something that will work though!
Sweden has killed off almost all wild Wolfs. So now we have so so much Moose, 3 different kinds of deer. And worst of all, Wild Boar. They desroy everything for farmers. Same with Brown Bears. Where is the risk and thrill when you go out for camping and all you can meet up is an miserable Deer or an angry mother Boar.
Fish eat fish. It's natural. Natural enrichment and food source. I think it's just fine. For my extra fish I will give them to my local fish store. I may try selling some now that my local fish club is holding meetings again. The occasional deformed fish I may cull.
I had a little deformed guppy fry. His spine was bent sideways and he had a little trouble swimming. I was going to let him grow a little more and then separate him from the rest and let him have a chance in the rasbora tank, but one day he was gone and I assume his siblings had him for dinner.
In my opinion if someone can’t accept the fact that you’re allowing a predator to clean up for you, they shouldn’t own fish lol. Because how will they cope with a lose of their own guppy
OMG how could you do such a horrible thing to those fish!! You are cruel and a awful human being. . . . Thats what i was told by someone when I thinned out my mollies and platty by feeding them to my Oscar's. This was after i of course gave away as many as possible and sold some for a few bucks to my LFS. I find there is nothing wrong this. Yes, this isnt the wild and we are just keeping fish in a glass box. However what happens in the wild is this exact thing. So its pretty common and a part of life. Its your glass box and your way of doing things. Who is anyone to shame anyone for doing something a particular way. Ps: i have followed you for a while, at least 6 months and never subbed. So thanks for the tidbit to do so. Or else I'd still be watching every video while un subbed 🤙
So, my opinion on your 'solution' will not be a popular one, but you did ask. I find the reference to 'reintroduction of wolves' a misleading attempt to immediately garnish viewer sympathy for what was coming next. You have the opportunity to do so much more for these off-spring that you have created, but as you said, you weren't interested. I enjoy keeping a safe-healthy environment for all of my pets, Live-bearers included. My choice was to get ahead of the problem & create a 'Frat' tank for my male Endlers. I don't have an entire 'Fish room' like you do; I made space. This enabled me to manage the population knowing they are ALL comfortable, you have put a 'Tiger in your Tank', not cool.
Better than living in the wild and having a tiger around every corner, and not even having half of what survives in his tank survive to adult hood out in nature
@@markvickery5894 but take 'wild' & 'nature' out of it. These are domestic pets in a living room, we are in control of the environment. Why make death the first choice? MD Fish Tanks posted a video today as well, he supports 'non-violent' solutions to managing the Life in our tanks. It takes more effort, but life is life, he doesn't choose one over another.
@@finnwiggles28 first off these are no where near domestic, second we do need to take nature into consideration bc that’s where these animals are from and what we’re trying to replicate. And 3rd nature is pretty brutal, nature doesn’t care about life is life, nature says life is food. And in situations like these, where it’s either keep expanding until you’ve got a million tanks with Molly’s bc you dont want any fry to die, or just manage the population, you can either choose to do it with the mudskippers or the parents and don’t feed as much. Either way there will be a predator in the tank, bc the adult Molly’s won’t care about not munching down. And the whole thing about setting up another tank, that’s great if you just have one tank, but like I said that thought process never ends and you end up with a bunch of tanks for that one species, and then multiply it to however many species this guy has and you see how it’s just not manageable for most people
