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My guppy is pregnant but.... | 9 comments (9 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
I was going to tease and ask if the mollies (none / 1) (#7)
by unclescott on Wed Dec 21, 2005 at 04:07:44 PM PST

left the guppies any food. However, is there some sort of shelter (plants, plastic plants, rocks, large gravel, other "structure") where the guppy fry could hide? For more on structure and various breeding set-ups, see Immediate Help and the sections on Breeding,  Pregnancy and Birth and Fry Diet and Safety.

Mollie fry are larger than guppy fry and the largely vegetarian mollies are well known for leaving their fry alone. Those fry may be too large for the guppies to take.

Oh! Are your female guppies over three months of age and an inch long?

Sometimes a feeding of live or defrosted and rinse frozen foods will help. I have especially had luck with "worm bowls" in the tanks of livebearers well-known for cannibalism. See Food in General and Live Foods.

Another, nastier sounding, but treatable explanation is that your guppies have internal parasites, probably some sort of worm infestation. This is especially likely if your females are large and they have left no fry. Treat them and the tank with an anti-parasite application. Your LFS (Live Fish Shop) should have at least one available for internal parasites.

For a lot more on this, go to the Immediate Help links and check out maladies like Camallanus or Capillaria. One can get very involved with medicines called anthelmintics. But there are several commercial combos which will work.

I even picked up gel-tec at Petsmart and it works well for what I was looking for. The young man working the department was unaware of it's existence. Be prepared to thank whoever you ask and then do a little label reading. ;)

Please tell us if you are able to identify the cause of the problem.

Good luck and all the best!
uncle scott

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Re: I was going to tease and ask if the mollies (none / 0) (#8)
by kristiansson on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 03:50:52 AM PST

Thanks Uncle Scott for all that useful information. My tank has got a lot of plastic plants in there and even a few of those low ones that are very close to the ground. Well I have posted a new diary entry about what i have seen today about my Guppies and i think they all 3 of the girls are pregnant as there bellys look more plumper than when i got them and also on 2 of them they have quite a dark gravid spot. Hopefully i will have some fry soon.
Thanks
Kristiansson

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