My guppy is seriously pregnat or conspitated. wah do I do?

Question

1.I just bought a 3cm guppy yesterday. it is almost 7mm at its belly.(it is female) is it going to give birth or has it been overfed?

2.I also have2other females and a male in a 20L tank. on thier first night,they were lying almost still on the ground. are they just stressed?they were fine when i put them in the tank

3.is it ok if i leave the fry in the tank with the adults cause i have an elodea and a hair grasspot which is good enough for small fish to hide(but how will i feed dem cause dey might get eaten by the adults while trying to get to the top for food{i have a low buget})

Answer 1

If yourguppie is prego, just let her go, she will have babies on her own.

your fish was on the ground? Or was it lying on the bottom of the tank?

If your fish are Constipated, just feed them a few smashed peas (Frozen canned doesn't have to be boiled) or green veggies. It won't hurt any fish in the tank.

I have not had guppies eaten by the adult parent, do you have any cover in the tank? Plants floating plants etc? You can remove the little fish to a breeder net until they get large enough to be on their own. Feed them flake food, crushed between your fingers as small as you can get it.

I suggest to go this route if you do not have another tank already set up to accomodate your new arrivals. Catching your fry will pose the challange. If you keep floating plants in the tank, they will have places to hidewhen feeding.

Answer 2

Does the back part of the belly appear dark in color. Sometimes when guppies are about to give birth you can almost see the fry moving around in there. Yes its okay to leave the fry in with the adults if there are places to hide. However alot of them will get eaten by the adults. They can survive on the food that floats down. I have even had babies that grew and I didn't know they were there! If you want to try to save them all I believe they make a mesh type basket that hooks on the side of the tank and the adults won't be able to get them. Again having lots of hiding spots helps. As far as your fish being still on the ground: if it was night time and the lights were off they were probably just resting. There usually is stress with being in a new tank but fish do rest at night.

Answer 3

1) It sounds pregnant. just wait roughly 3 days (possibly more)

2) This could be that the temperature is too high or too low. That is the most possible reason.

3) This is what I do mostly:

a. I do use lots of plants, but you should get more.
You will save +- 75% this way.

b. Take a drinking straw. Hold your finger over the top. Place the open end in the water. Holding it steady above the new born release the top, immediately place your finger over the top. You now have the newborn in the straw. Hold the straw over a jar (with water) and release the top. The new born will fall into the jar and you will have to catch the next one.
This way you will save 90% of them.
The down side is that you need to replace the water in the jar every week.

c. Use just your normal flake food or micro pellets.

Answer 4

Your Guppy is pregnat it can be a few weeks before she pops.

Add a lil bit of aquarium salt, guppies like it.

You can leave the fry in the tank with minimal threat if you have heavy plant cover, java moss, java fren, duckweed, etc.

Answer 5

http://www.qeok.com/fish/2292-1-fish.html

Great information there about constipation in fishes.

*"Diana Jaeger: My heart nearly stopped when my nine-year-old son Alex said, 'Mom, I think M&M is dying.' His beloved goldfish was on its back, bloated and gasping. Feeling desperate (and guilty, as I had just changed the wqter in the bowl), I went to my computer and Googled 'goldfish swimming upside down' More than 116,000 entried popped up. When I read about how peas can cure sick fish, I thought How crazy is this? I took boiled peas and dropped the pulp in the bowl. The next day, our fish was back to normal."