Would this be weird?

[lovleeko]

Anyone ever added some live bearer like swordtail or platy to tank just so they can have some fry for a little extra nutrition for everyone? Easier than setting up a tank for breeding live food. LOL

[Poofaye C.]

Don't know if I should go into details, but yes!
For awhile when I kept guppies. When the tank got a little over crowded, (breeding wise) snack time for my silver tip cat-sharks in my agressive tank! Not proud, not proud.

[lovleeko]

When I kept livebearers I found that not many of the got eaten and I didn't want to keep them all. I would have to take them to the LFS. I figure in the tank with non live bearers and some fish sporting larger mouths that might not be a problem. I think the little mickey mouse platies are cute so I might just get some. I just thought it might not be a bad idea nutrition wise. HMMM.....

[TazManiac]

Flake and bloodworms are much more nutritous than feeder fish, especially fry.

[labnjab]

Before we started saltwater, we had 2- 10 gallons full of guppy fry (between 60 and 100 and maybe a week or 2 old), and then one day both tanks started leaking, So the only place we could put them was our 55 gallon community tank and hoped for survivors. I turned off the light and dropped them in a few at a time. Lets just say my angel fish, female betta, and the adult guppies had a meal fit for a king. When I turned the lights on the next morning, there were none. I didn't have anywhere else to put them.

[NickFish]

I use to put a trio of guppies in every breeding tank. The fry help condition the parents.
Regardless of nutrition, parents just like to see and eat new born fry. Gets them in the mood. :hmm3grin2orange:

No substitute for other live foods like daphnia or brine shrimp, and of course no substitute for a good quality pellet

[DrNic]

I have given some angelfish fry that I wasn't going to raise as treats to some of my other fish. Fry that still have large yolk sacs, like those from eggs, will have more nutritional value than livebearer young though, which don't usually have much yolk when they drop.

[Wild Turkey]

Common practice for a variety of reasons. Not weird at all ;)