Unintentional Platy Breeding

I'm new to community fish keeping which will probably be painfully obvious as soon as I post my predicament... I have a 29 g. planted freshwater tank. 1 bn pleco 11 neon tetra and initially 3 platy. I knew enough to get all female platies because I am not trying to breed. Tank was cycled before adding fish. 0 ammonia, 0 nitrate, nitrite around 10. 78 degrees. Didnt realize unless you go to a fish specialty store more often then not you are bringing home pregnant platies. They all had litters or schools or whatever you call a bunch of fish babies and 3 survived. So now up to 6 platies. all babies ended up being female. Thought I was in the clear until a month later tank is absolutely overrun with fry.... now I know this can go on for months. my tank is way over stocked and I need suggestions on what to do. I am not one who can vaccumm the fry up with the gravel vacuum and flush them... suggestions?

 

Could try selling or donating to your LFS. Or start a second tank! I’m planning on doing a mixture of both with my guppies. Unfortunately none of my stores will buy but they will take donations.

 

This is a bit controversial, but you could add something to eat the fry. A female betta could work with that set up, and it should go after young fry. As for the current fry, you can try and ship them by selling them on here once you hit 50 posts, or on aquabid. There are also humane methods of euthanization, if you want me to talk about those

 

Could try selling or donating to your LFS. Or start a second tank! I’m planning on doing a mixture of both with my guppies. Unfortunately none of my stores will buy but they will take donations.

Thanks for the suggestions!

 

This is a bit controversial, but you could add something to eat the fry. A female betta could work with that set up, and it should go after young fry. As for the current fry, you can try and ship them by selling them on here once you hit 50 posts, or on aquabid. There are also humane methods of euthanization, if you want me to talk about those

Thanks for the suggestions. Most of the first batch of fry were all eaten. This batch though all seem to be surviving. I can reliably count up to 15 at any given time...

 

Could try selling or donating to your LFS. Or start a second tank! I’m planning on doing a mixture of both with my guppies. Unfortunately none of my stores will buy but they will take donations.

I would love to get a huge tank but at the rate these platies are having babies even a huge tank would be overrun within a year!