wHAT DOES A PREGNANT GUPPY NEED TO FEEL READ YTO GIVE BRITH BECUASE WE HAVE A PREGNANT GUPPY THAT HAS BEEN PREGNANT FOR ABOUT 2 MONTHS KNOW AND SHE HAS THE BLACK GRAVID SPOT, BUT HAS NOT GIVEN BIRTH YET AND SHE IS IN A TANK WITH 5 PLANTS THAT ARE LIVE. WILL SHE OR HER MATE EAT THE PLANT OR ARE THE SNAILS THE ONES TO BLAME?


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DEAN

please, could you not use cap locks, thanks.
the snails wont eat the babies but if theres no hiding spot then the parents will. as with all livebearers just provide plenty of cover and just wait. patience is whats needed.

I meant are the guppies eating the live plants or is the snail?


Thanks!!!

the guppies i doubt, but what kind of snails do you have.

depends on what KIND of plants. hehehe. fry like to nibble on small plant particles.. and if you have a lot of fry, then your plant might get ruined. this REMEMBER, depends on what kinds of plant. as for adults, no they dont eat plants anymore.

btw, a pregnant female will lay on the bottom if shes ready to give birth and you can see a very very dark area around her gravid spot. and she might have her 'vent' open as well, sometimes.

She was swimming and hitting her stomach on the marbles one day and then she stopped, but there was nothing different. The snail is a black ramshorn baby.


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ALthough I have a guppy now,it's been alot of years since I had fry,but for some reason I'm thinking two months is too long on that pregnacy. I am certainly no Guppy Expert,but I though it was more like every three to four weeks for birth?? Now don't quote me on this,because my memory is old,and could be wrong.I know two Guppy Fry Expertsa on this,TD & Daryl.....We'll have to see if thye come to our rescue on this. Oh by the way,Ramshorn will definately eat your plants.

Guppys give birth every 30 days or so. maybe the young are being eaten as soon as they are born and because the female is carrying sperm then she can be pregnant straight away and the gravid spot is always there.

yeah, the female carries 6batches of male sperm..

I actually thought of you after I posted!! I just got off my 80 hr. work week,and am very tired & lazy today!

Devs you poor thing, doing such long hours. Go put your feet up and have a drink, you deserve it
Raith my guppys only carry sperm for 3 broods so yours must be super guppys

haha, i just have horny guppies.. and its 3males to 1female in my tank.

Just to point out to anyone else reading this that 3 males to 1 female isnt fair on the females as they get exhausted from the chasing and constantly being pregnant. Ideally, it should be 3 females or more to one male and only if you dont mind them breeding.

Good point Sandy! I've seen females actually die from the constant chasing & being pregnant all the time. Raith ,their immune systems go lower & illness is easier to set in on them. Always keep more females to males,and I've allready had tanks with one sex in it,just because I didn't want to get over populated with babies-which will happen rather fast with Guppies. From everything I've read,sperm for 3broods sounds about right.

i meant 3females to 1 male... LOL. sorry about that.

glad thats sorted then.

id kill myself if it was 3males to 1female. cause males would harass the crap out of the female, anyway, biggy guppy is about to be pregnant again. well, two actually. more litter more litter. when theyre close to labor i tend to feed the guppies more.

While we are on the topic of guppies...

All mine died, and I don't know why. They would be fine, then a few hours later their gills would be swollen and puffy, their color would pale, and they would die. All I have left are two fry in a little bowl.

Is this some disease? Or could it be genetic? (inbred petstore guppies x.x)

two question:
1. stress?
2. water quality?

it sounds like the water quality is bad from what youre talking about.

How big is your Aquarium, How old are these guppies?,What are your
water levels, How many times a week do you clean the tank?

Possibly another fish that you bought was sick..., it sounds alittle like dropsy
where they pinecoaning?

Alex

I change the water once about every 2 weeks because it is just a little 2 gallon with 1 snail and a male guppy and a female guppy. The guppies were given to us, We do not check the water levels becuase the fish are always swimming around, so we gigure that they are okay!!! The tank has an undergravel filter, and might be getting a biobag filter, the one that mounts in your tank, that comes with the 2.5 gallon at walmart or they might the 2.5 gallon from walmart. I do not know yet because we are on a tight budget!!!


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Can you put the pregnant guppy in another tank with no other fish, and let her give birth there or just let her be in the main tank.


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yes, thats viable. have a lot of plants or the mommy will devour the young.

Okay, but do you think if i wait till about May 20th and put her in a ten gallon with 5 plants, will she wait until then?


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im not sure if a fish can learn to how to 'wait', depends on how black her gravid spot is, if its brownish tannish black, i wouldnt worry about it. if its pitched black i would start considering.

It is a light black, becuase you can still see some red.

Thanks!

i wouldnt be too worried, the fry is being developed.

Okay! Thanks for being so much help!! Is there a spot in here where you can nominate a member for being so much help becuase you have answered like all of my questions on all of my post.

Thanks!

im just a guppy fan!

Okay!

I mommy died while giving birth, so when we found here, Monday, she had a head of a baby fish coming out of the back end, so we got her into a little tank and we used the net and squeezed her and babies came out and they are not moving yet. Will they survive?

Thanks!

I believe that they should be free swimming as soon as they come out so if they are not moving then I dont think they ever will

if the mother dies, the fry will die with her. squeezing might have stressed the fry out. thats too much for the fry. next time dissect the mother.

What does disect the mother mean? They are still curled in a ball but thay are moving their fins.

Thanks.

Dissecting means to cut her open. You are probably too young still but in school you usually disect a frog or some other animal for class.

usually biology teaches dissection. they probably broke their backs(gups). best of luck, though.

It has been a week and they are not swimming and their eye balls are poped out, so we think they are dead.

Thanks!

not swimming, so theyre floating? remove as soon as possible, or let the GF eat it or whatever.

They are on the bottom, all in one clump. They are not in the same tank as the daddy.

Thanks!

remove it as soon as possible, they are now considered 'waste'.

We got rid of them today!!!!