[darkfalz]

May be a touchy subject for some, but I'm going to have to destroy the babies when my very platy has her next batch which could be any time now. I just don't have the room to raise another batch at the moment. If she gets pregnant again, that might be okay as my current fry should be big enough to be sexed and to go with the adults by the time she has them. Then I'd be raising them strictly for selling though, and I have to make sure I have a store willing to take them first.

I'm thinking of using ice-water for this, just net them straight out the tank and into a shallow bucket of ice water. Is this the best way? If I had big fish I'd just feed them to them, but I only have a Betta. He might be able to eat one or two a day, but keeping them alive just to feed him over a week or two would be a lot crueller than just snuffing them out.