i bought a guppy 2 weeks ago an orange one and it was really really fat like it was prego but she dint have a gravid spot 2 weeks later still no gravid spot but she is still really big and yesterday i found 2 orange guppy fry in my aquarium but they both died they had big white round things on their belly and the other one had a red cut it was weird any way whats up with my guppy
2007-04-13 00:56:40 · 6 answers · asked by Orhan K 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
Moving a live-bearing fish when it is close to delivering is a dangerous thing to do.It will cause problems like the ones you are experiencing. The young will probably be still born,and the female will probably die. Never move a female live-bearer within two weeks of her delivery,this means you don't buy an obviously "full" female and expect her to survive the moving process. A pet store that would allow this is counting on the fish dieing so you will buy another.
2007-04-13 02:58:36 · answer #1 · answered by PeeTee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guppies will eat their young as soon as they are laid you should get a fish breeder thing. they sell them at pet stores and they work great for guppies. The babies come out in eggs but within 3 second turn into little baby guppies . the mother and other guppies and fish will eat all the babies with out this breeding device.
2016-05-19 15:56:59 · answer #2 · answered by georgina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes a gravid spot is hard to see if the guppy is brightly colored or has lots of pigment in it's skin. Almost all female guppies you buy are pregnant when you get them because they are housed with males both at the wholesalers and at the shop. It sounds like your guppy gave birth prematurely to me. That sometimes happens when you move a pregnant female.
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2007-04-13 02:27:02 · answer #3 · answered by magicman116 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can tell if a guppy is pregnent by seeing if they'res a black spot behind stomach, and below where body and tail connects. If so, put them in a Baby Saver, it's a container that floats on the top of the water, and it has holes in the bottom of the container, so you can seperate the babys from the mother.
2007-04-13 01:05:34 · answer #4 · answered by ShesADreamer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well my dad had a black guppy and it was fat on its tummy near its tail born cristmas ate by the other fish later :(
2007-04-13 02:01:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
your guppy was prengant and i guess during th frist stages of labor you must have gotten her so the move caused her exterme uncomfert during birth
2007-04-13 01:38:20 · answer #6 · answered by efrain r 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋