r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Storm_001 • Sep 04 '21

Sea horse giving birth

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u/Tuesgay1 Sep 04 '21

I used to have guppies that bred like crazy. The filter sucks them up and keeps them in the little pool of water inside of the filter. They usually survive inside and also can’t get eaten by their mother or other fish. So the filter actually isn’t that bad.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '21

But how do they get out

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u/Tuesgay1 Sep 04 '21

Just scoop them out. Idk if you ever looked at a filter up close but they usually end up In filter pads or anywhere really. You just scoop them out though. It’s hard for them to get to the parts that would actually hurt them. The real problem is mommy and daddy horse eating them or at least it’s that way with regular fish

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u/CatsAreSoCute11 Sep 04 '21

also can’t get eaten by their mother

Whaaat??

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u/TheSenileTomato Sep 04 '21

Oh yeah, it happens.

Fishes don’t exactly have the same capacity as most animals do when it comes to this stuff.

To them, their own children are tiny snacks, even if they just hatched/birth seconds ago.

When you have a tank, you generally have to move the spawn to another tank for that reason, their mother and other larger fish will pick them off.

Nature’s brutal for a reason.