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Another supersized guppy | 5 comments (5 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Another supersized guppy (none / 0) (#1)
by josh on Mon Mar 28, 2005 at 07:48:00 AM PST

Hi Celine, first off, if a guppy has a triangular shaped anal fin it mean its a she. If it has a anal fin that is bent up towards the stomach, its a he. Now to answering your question, that is defenatly a she, since she has a triangular anal fin and has a gravid spot, which is the red dot you were talking about. It starts out black and then gradually turns red as she advances in her pregnancy. She should be having her babies in the next 3 days.

Hope this can help you,
josh

p.s. i also speak french.



Hello Celine and welcome to Guppylog. Josh (none / 0) (#2)
by unclescott on Mon Mar 28, 2005 at 08:30:01 AM PST

is correct, if your female is going to have fry, she should have them soon.

However, it is also possible, if she doesn't drop fry, that the female's girth is because she has dropsy. Please check on the Immediate Help link on the upper right corner of any GL page and look for dropsy. That dropsy might be because of aquarium conditions (isolation tanks are harder to keep clean) or also, just because she is an old guppy. Getting older, with a lot of creatures, may mean that the immune system isn't what it once was.

You were wise to isolate her when she became so combative. The color in her unpaired fins is great. However it may be that as she got older (elderly for a guppy) that a not entirely rare mixing of hormones took place. As she perhaps produced a bit more testosterone than she needed, she might have been rendered sterile and a bit more colorful, though colors like those often decorate fertile females.

Fish never stop growing throughout their lives. The growth rate does, however, slow down considerably after young adulthood. Her size, behavior and health issues (if there are health issues) may just be results of aging.

As for your English, it is beautiful, though not so beautiful as French. :)

All the best!
uncle scott

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Re: Hello Celine and welcome to Guppylog. Josh (none / 0) (#4)
by PeterW on Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 11:01:31 AM PST

I hate to say it, but it reminds me immediately of dropsy - I think it is... and I fear she's going to die horribly within the next few days.  It is an internal bacterial infection, inside the body cavity.  The fluid is seeping out of the infected areas and is blowing her up like a baloon... until something gives..

Things to watch out for..

  • A big pink bulge out the side of her body or rear vent (this is the sac where the fry grow inside)
  • Swimming upside down or losing swim control.

If either of these happen, she's too far gone and it would be a good time to think about euthanasia.

The only thing I've ever come across that has had any remote success in heading off dropsy bloating is Kanamycin (fairly early in the process) and salt.  And even then it is still more likely to fail.

If she ruptures and the pink stuff comes out, she's going to get a massive bacterial or fungal infection (white hair).  If you can't bring yourself to euthanaise her, do keep her away from all other fish.

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Re: Hello Celine and welcome to Guppylog. Josh (none / 0) (#5)
by TheRoberts on Fri Apr 01, 2005 at 10:53:00 AM PST

Hi Peterw (and everybody else)

Nothing changed since the last message we posted.

She still eats, hides a little bit at the top corner of the tank above the pump. She swims fine but she stays at the surface all the time. She doesnt look like she has a pink bulge.

We can see a area with sort of eggs (maybe, because we have never had the case before to compare) and they look a bit pink though.
Maybe you're right then.... We will try to get something to isolate her.

Thanks for your help, Ill give news soon

Celine and Sean
 
Celine and Sean
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Re: Hello Celine and welcome to Guppylog. Josh (none / 0) (#3)
by TheRoberts on Tue Mar 29, 2005 at 08:21:17 PM PST

Hi Josh and Uncle Scott,

Thanks a lot for your replies, it helps a lot. For the moment nothing changed, she stills swims at the surface and doesnt look to be looking for a place to hide and give birth, if she's pregnant. We'll see what happens. Hopefully I will come back in this forum in a few announcing that we had babies and not that she died because she was dropsy. I can clearly see sorts of eggs or black dots at the bottom so I hope it is the fry, and not a gigantic rolled turd like my mm said, she believes that the fish is constipated... Anyway, thanks a lot and a bientot

Celine (and Sean, still in bed)
Celine and Sean
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