AverageWhiteBloke
Member
Just wondered if anyone has tried to take fish to Maidenhead Aquatics and what their policy was?
What seemed to be a good idea at the time as a project I bought two pairs of Endlers. I lost one of the females but now I have a population boom on my hands which is getting a bit ridiculous. I did appreciate they would have young quite a lot when I bought them but the problem is the young seem all to be females, my initial plan was to keep giving them away until I just had a tank of males for something to look at, from what I understand soft water produces a higher female to male ratio and my water is very soft. The problem I have is that although some are newly born pretty much so far I haven't found any new males!
Firstly I need to find a home for the sexually mature female, currently she's kicking out massive batches nearly every month to the day sometimes 12 to 16 at a time. Problem is nobody seems to want any, my local LFS as a policy of not taking in fish at all which I think is ridiculous. I've put them free to good homes on facebook groups but nothing, especially with them being the duller females. I was toying with the idea of maybe putting a male Betta in there in the hope it will eat any new fry but I also have RCS in the tank.
I don't want to go down the route of culling but I'm at the point I don't think I'll have a choice which goes against every principle I have in fish keeping.
Any ideas?
What seemed to be a good idea at the time as a project I bought two pairs of Endlers. I lost one of the females but now I have a population boom on my hands which is getting a bit ridiculous. I did appreciate they would have young quite a lot when I bought them but the problem is the young seem all to be females, my initial plan was to keep giving them away until I just had a tank of males for something to look at, from what I understand soft water produces a higher female to male ratio and my water is very soft. The problem I have is that although some are newly born pretty much so far I haven't found any new males!
Firstly I need to find a home for the sexually mature female, currently she's kicking out massive batches nearly every month to the day sometimes 12 to 16 at a time. Problem is nobody seems to want any, my local LFS as a policy of not taking in fish at all which I think is ridiculous. I've put them free to good homes on facebook groups but nothing, especially with them being the duller females. I was toying with the idea of maybe putting a male Betta in there in the hope it will eat any new fry but I also have RCS in the tank.
I don't want to go down the route of culling but I'm at the point I don't think I'll have a choice which goes against every principle I have in fish keeping.
Any ideas?