pregnant guppy

[bella535]

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[Alistriwen]

Yah she's at least a week from dropping if not more by the looks of her. As for the stress issue, it doesnt matter if she'd been in there a day a week or a month, if she was in a relatively new setting it's going to stress her to be moved to a new one again so soon. It stresses a fish out when you move them regardless. If the net was small then there's even more stress from being in a confined space unable to reach members of her species.

 

[bella535]

ok thanx that actually helped me alot......... now i know somewhat whats going on with her. ill let u know when she has them.

 

[Alistriwen]

No problem at all. If you need any more advice on guppies let me know, I've had thousands of them .

 

[bella535]

the guppy just had her babies.......finally! my red molly and white molly also just had their babies this week so we have a bunch of babies.

 

[nikochan--]

lol i did that once.... her belly was HUGE! and the next day he had the fry

 

[nikochan--]

congrats!

 

[Cappuccino]

The livebearer gravid spot is one of the most commonly misunderstood aspects of livebearer reproduction. If you try to judge pregnancy and such from gravid spots you will not have a lot of success with these fish. I can tell when my guppies are a day from giving birth with almost 100% accuracy without even looking at their gravid spots.

A gravid spot develops in juvenile females whether or not they've been fertilized yet. This dark patch is actually a mass of orange eggs but due to the colouration of the guppy often appears black or brownish. The gravid spot changing colour therefore, is a result of a change in colour on the guppy's part not anything going on with her offspring. If a fish changes colour and it isnt breeding time, chances are you've stressed it. You said you'd had this guppy a day before tossing it in a net and if that's the case 100% you've over stressed that fish. A new tank is stress enough for a fish without being tossed into a tiny net right away.

Size isnt neccessarily an indicator of pregnancy either. Shape is more important than a female's overall size. Sometimes a fish is just fat because it has eaten a lot and when you stress it all that was inside comes out. Once they get back to eating normally the weight usually comes back. Absorbing fry is a very uncommon occurence, far more so than most would lead you to believe. Unfortunately, if this does occur your fish will not just carry on normally in all likelihood. A fish that has absorbed fry often has serious problems later, including an inability to reproduce.

I agree 100% size and shape will indicate pregnacy or readiness to breed better than the gravid spot

 

[Cappuccino]

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this female is not quite ready yet, but im sure you will know when she is.

 

[ductTAPE]

i'm trying to breed guppies as well