Anyone interested in guppies?

GeegaFish

My guppies are over populating my tanks and I'm having trouble selling them locally. They are fancy, but not "pure." I have mostly reddish/orange ones, a few yellow snakeskins and a few with orange tails that have blue spots.

Here are a few pictures.






If anyone is interested, please PM me and we can negotiate.

Thanks for your interest. :D

SKAustin

Just a suggestion, but you might want to seperate the females until you are able to decrease the population. If you do, you can expect more babies in the female-only tank for about 3 months after you seperate, as the females can store the sperm for at least that long. You will need to continue to seperate the males from that tank as they become identifyable, otherwise they will reach maturity and will breed with the adult females.

Have you tried listing them at www.craigslist.com? That may be an option as well.

And as barbaric as it may seem, you may also consider donating them to someone near you as feeders. Guppies will reach plague proportions quite quickly if breeding is allowed to continue.

iamntbatman

To add to the "cruelty:

I have one male and two female guppies in a 5g aquarium. Just now, one of the females started giving birth. I moved three of the fry to my 29g where they didn't last more than 5 seconds with the two 2" golden wonder killifish in the tank. Best Guppy fry eaters I've ever seen. Pretty, too.

GeegaFish

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I do have my guppies separated, finally, but many females are still pregnant and birthing away!

I keep trying to find people near me to give/sell some to without luck. I just put an ad in the paper (and online) that was supposed to reach nearly 200,000 readers. I got one response.

I tried Craigslist before too and got many responses, but only one buyer. I guess I'm going to have to start to give some away. Not many want to pay for them. Oh well.

SKAustin

Sorry I cant give tou a better alternative. Unfortunately, Guppies are great for starting out in fiskeeping, but little else. I eventually moved my best looking males to a community tropicals tank, then left the fate of the rest in the hands (or fins) of my African Cichlids. My Cichlids were very welcoming to the guppies, they invited them right in for dinner.

GeegaFish

LOL That was too funny, Steve!

I'm eventually going to branch out myself. I had a turtle until recently that "helped" with some of the extras, but he was getting too much for me and I rehomed him. Of course, I sent 30 or so guppies along with him, so that helped for a short time! :D

I'll just keep trying. As I get more experienced with sexing them it's alot easier to keep the numbers down because the girls don't get pregnant in the first place. Those naughty guppies.

GeegaFish

Ok....so anyone want to buy some feeder guppies?

okiemavis

You may also want to try aquabid.com

chally567

how much

tntwiddle

pming you--did you get it?