Endler Fry Apex Predator required!

[prdad]

I have a 3x2x2 planted tank with Otto's, Blue neon Gobies, Pygmy Corys, CPD's, Emerald Danios, a breeding lot of Bronze laser Corys and, massive mistake, Endlers. They are approaching plague proportions and looking unlikely to stop.

Has anybody any ideas on a fish which would pick off the fry? But leave the Cory fry? More active at the top of the tank than the bottom?

 

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[jaisol]

I could rehome some, I work in manchester, so could collect

 

[Maf 2500]

I think it is a fair question to ask, better to have them be eaten when babies than overpopulate the tank and cause pollution to the water quality.

Almost any omnivorous fish with a mouth big enough to fit the fry in will eat them. I am surprised the CPD's and Emerald Danios are letting so many through, although they may only be big enough to take the smallest endler babies. Maybe a shoal of a tetra species that grow slightly larger than the danios?

 

[tam]

Harlequins rasboras are fairly large mouthed without being too boisterous. Your best bet would be to rehome the female endlers though. I think anything that very successfully controlled fry numbers would eat cory eggs even if the fry hid at the bottom.

 

[Onoma1]

Some of the smaller independent fish shops will take 'excess' fish normally in return for credit in store.

 

[Jimmy@LV]

I think the best way would be to rehome some of the adult endlers too. I had guppies a community tank with 2 gouramies and still the guppies kept multiplying. I ended up giving all the female guppies to a local fish shop.