is it possible?

Question

i have four guppys in a tank because i was not sure which one was having the babies so i put all four of the pregnant ones in there and i cant tell which one had the babies..they all look like they are getting smaller but only four babies were born..are my eyes playing tricks on me or are they just eating the babies before i see them?

Answer 1

Besides the obvious bloated look and the gravid spot on livebearers, there is a way to tell if your guppy is about to give birth. Watch her on a regular basis, and you will notice as she becomes ready to give birth, she will become anti-social. You will see that she tends to stay away from the other fish, or chase other fish away. She will also start to swim in and out of the hiding spots in your aquarium. These are the places that she will mostly likely feel the safest, and will tend to drop her fry. Keeping a heavily planted tank (about 50% covered), even with 4 birthing guppies will dramatically increase their chanes of survival and you will see many, many fry. Good Luck!

Answer 2

If you don't have plants where the fry can hide, yes, your females are eating the fry

you need some breeding grass or similar where they can hide in that they don't get eaten





Hope that helps
Good luck



EB

Answer 3

just keep taking them out when they get small that is the only way you will know, they have special breeding nets, that you can buy, they are pretty cheap, they are only meant for one fish at a time, but they sit in your other tank, and when it has the babies, take the mom fish out,

Answer 4

:) looks like we have the same problem. we have an aquarium full of fishes...seems all of them are pregnant when they became bigger and had babies (fry) when they get smaller..but we never proved it coz theres no single fry we see when they get smaller.

Answer 5

Most likely eating the fry...