2 pregnant female fancy guppies died over a day?

Question

i just bought 2 female and 1 male guppies the day before yesterday, and i found out that the 2 females are pregnant
and today both of my female died
one died in the morning the other died a couple hours after
i want to know the reason why they died...
is it the water?the male guppy? stress?etc.
i used spring water for them

Answer 1

Sorry for your loss

It sounds like they where already very pregnant, and due to the stress you caused them they died

What i usually did with pregnant guppy's was putting them into a breeder right after acclimating them to the water

Unfortunately most of the time they died, but I usually got babies from them and they died afterwards

Or the female was just to weak, would abort her undeveloped fry and then die as well

but you can read up on how to breed them successfully
http://fishlesscycling.com/articles/breeding_tropical_fish.html


hope that helps
good luck


EB

Answer 2

Depending how long the tank has been set up, if you put 3 fish in at once or more, you may have changed the ph and that's what killed them.
Your tank has to be very stable to add several fish at once. Maybe they were sick when you bought them as well.
FYI for you and everyone, female guppies are almost always prego. They can breed once with a male and will get prego 5 to 6 times after one breeding.
I have a tank full of guppies, males and females and lots of babies all the time.
My advise is just to try again, but only buy 2 fish at a time.
guppies are super easy to breed, but you have to make sure when the female gives birth to find the fry and get them in a breeder box til they are big enough to survive with bigger fish. I never get them all before someone eats them.

Answer 3

Maybe shock? Not like surprise shock, but more of a seizure shock. Did you put them into the tank water right away? If you did, then that causes shocks for most fish, especially pregnant ones, because they're stressing already. I had guppies, and to put them into the tank water, you have to first open the plastic bag from where you bought them from, then just make it float, but hold onto it with one of you hands, and put just a little bit of tank water into the bag, and hold for 10minutes, put a little bit more than hold for another 10minutes, then do that about 2more times then finally put them actually into the tank wate(without the water from the bag because it might carry some diseases from the petshop water)

Answer 4

I had the same problem. They lived a lot longer but I was never able to get them to have babies.... :(