carla Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 Have come across a TM auction which says: "I DON'T FEED LIVE FOOD!!! It makes fish aggressive!!! It'll be impossible to keep adults and young guppies together if you feed live food as the adults would eat their young! Most pet shops sells fish that grew up on live food thus their aggressive nature. I feed them top quality Tetra bits ONLY. This makes breeding easy as I don't need to separate the young from the adults. " Any comment on that? Not sure if I am allowed to put a link to the auction here so maybe just look up the seller blueyblaze and his auctions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 Bollocks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HummingBird Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 I feed live food regularly and my guppy tanks are teeming with babies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsarmina Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 guppies will eat their young no matter what you feed them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianab Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 My guppys are only fed dry foods and they act like little piranaha Still about a million of them though Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 Guppies eat their fry whether they have been fed live food or not :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carla Posted August 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 Guppies eat their fry whether they have been fed live food or not :roll: Thats what I observed too actually. Wonder where he got this idea from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 My guppies don't eat their young either---I put the females in a trap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sub.z Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 I saw that auction aswell You wonder where some people get the ideas, or whether they just make them up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 Rubbish - IMO the only time perhaps you should go easy on live food is when you have eggs hatching and livebearers don't do that!!!! :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keri Anne Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 :lol: saw that today and had a little laugh - mind you I don't feed white worms to any of my blonde or albino strains. I feed them other live foods though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim r Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 My guppies are very 21st century and fully understand that it is unacceptable to eat their babies ,which means I have rather a lot at present (no complaints in that department) and I feed them bloodworm/whiteworm. I also have indian fern in the tank just in case someone forgets the rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insect Direct Posted August 24, 2007 Report Share Posted August 24, 2007 :lol: - mind you I don't feed white worms to any of my blonde or albino strains. I feed them other live foods though. Whats the reason for that Keri Anne?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HummingBird Posted August 24, 2007 Report Share Posted August 24, 2007 Think about it - do you want them to learn that food = little, wriggling white things? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim r Posted August 24, 2007 Report Share Posted August 24, 2007 yes I thought about it and decided my fish deserve the best and hence no probs with the so called guppy disease. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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