What do other aquarium owners do with excess numbers of fish?

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minx

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My friend is an avid aquarium owner and has hundreds of excess guppies. He used to be able to sell them to a private pet store; however, this store is discontinuing aquariums. Other local pet stores are not buying from private individuals (probably the fish are hybrids, and the stores buy from licensed importers only). There is simply no way he can sell that many fish on private classified services like Craigslist. Does anyone have any ideas (BESIDES flushing them all down the toilet?)
He'd be more than happy to give them away, but most people do not want hundreds of fish; and even if many people took a few fish for free, by that time he would have many more because guppies are such prolific breeders. Besides, he lives in a remote area and chances would be slim to none that he'd have that many willing takers who would want to come out and get them.
 
I always used to just give mine to the pet store. Usually if it's a chain pet store -- Petco..Petsmart -- than they'll take them from you. They won't buy them however, so just call and ask if they'd take them.

Best of Luck :]
 
Unfortunately guppies are cheap and easy to come by, making them a bad seller for the casual breeder. What your friend really needs to do is to separate the males and females and stop breeding.

Petsmart will not take them, while some Petcos might. If he is willing to, he could advertise them as feeders on craigslist at a cheaper price.
 
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