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By erdemozkan, Section Ask Guppylog
Posted on Sun Oct 12, 2003 at 07:41:29 AM PST
Hello to everyone as a guppy addict from TURKEY!



When i was 9 years old, i was mad of the aquariums and my dad had do buy a one for me. I had lots of guppies breeding. Now i'm 23 and haven't been able to be intersested in the aquariums for about 10 years, because of my education. But i always wanted to... Last year my girlfriend bought me a goldfish and woila! I found the aquarist living in me again. 2 weeks ago i took my old small breeding tank and bought a pair of guppy. The female seemed pregnant. When i asked to the shopper, he told me that she has 1 week to breed. 2 weeks passed and no fry can be seen. For three days, she has been laying on the gravel and enlarging her tail. The goldfish is also in the tank. Due to my opportunities in the past, i've used some raffia to make a place for fry to hide. I've live plants but they're not big and much enough to save  the fry. The female has a transparent body. She has a black spot on her stomach near her anus. I see something there, and i think they're some eggs. I have two evidences that she could be pregnant. First the black spot, and second that she has no response to the male's sex games. She always runs, if the male is thinking about sex. I just wanna learn if she is pregnant or not. And is the raffia safe enough for the fry to save their lives from the goldfish.
Sorry for the long story and thanks for this site.
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Is she pregnant? | 4 comments (4 topical, 0 hidden)
Welcome back (none / 0) (#3)
by cloe on Mon Oct 13, 2003 at 12:32:37 PM PST

to the hobby! Typically a female will be preg for about 28-30 days, though there is no set schedule just like humans. If her gravid spot is getting larger and darker that is a good sign, and usually when they are 1-3 days away I notice that the females belly gets a "squared" off appearance. Also I have noticed that when they are getting close to birth they will try to hide and stay solo. They goldfish will absolutely eat the fry (likely the parents too) so I would get more live plants, floating plants are very good, maybe a seperate birth tank where the fry can stay for a week or so afterwards.
Good luck!
Cloe



Hello erdemozkan ! (none / 0) (#2)
by unclescott on Mon Oct 13, 2003 at 05:02:44 AM PST

Using raffia for fry hiding places! What a wonderful idea!

Does it grow near where you live in Turkey? Although a wetland product, is there any problem with it rotting in a fish tank and taking oxygen out of the water?

I fear that your goldfish will eat the baby guppies - perhaps before you even see them.

"If a fish can fit into the mouth of another it will." :(

That is not the fault of the goldfish - it is a natural behavior.

If your female guppy is laying on the tank bottom, is there a way to warm the tank gradually until it is a degree C warmer?

Goldfish are temperate zone fish. Yours would really be happiest in a cool container (maybe even in a bowl or pot on the floor - Chinese and Japanese fishkeepers sometimes keep them that way) and not in a tropically warm guppy tank.

To be a female guppy, by the way, usually is to be a pregnant guppy. ;)

One of the new acquisitions I set up tonight, is a fish from Turkey. Aphanius mento is just one of several Aphanius (sometime called Lebias) from Anatolia and regions to the east and south.

They are in separate tanks, but I'm just as excited to get them as some green snakeskin guppies.

Your experience of keeping guppies and other fish, leaving them because of the demands of school (and often beginning a career, starting a family and many other important, busy periods in one's life) and then returning to the hobby and craft of keeping aquaria is very common among the aquarists I've had the privilage of meeting.

Welcome back to guppies! :)



Its possible (none / 0) (#1)
by Kitti1120 on Mon Oct 13, 2003 at 03:11:22 AM PST

Hey,
 The gary/black spot you see near her anus is the Gravid Area. When females are pregnant that area will get very large and very dark even darkern when they are about to give birth and you maybe able to see little spots that kind of resemble eyes. Females are Pregnant 3 to 5 weeks. Its a good idea to keep them in a separate tank when you know shes closer that way it is easier to save the fry. Well Fed Guppies wont eat there babies from what i have experienced.
Guppies though do not have "eggs" they are live bearers. I hope this helps....

April....
~*~April~*~



Actually guppies have eggs, but they are stored (none / 0) (#4)
by unclescott on Mon Oct 13, 2003 at 08:13:00 PM PST

in the female's body at a microscopic size. In time a certain number of them are released to be fertilized by the sperm stored from the last matings. I would hazard the guess that the number of ova released for fertilization was a function of the female's size and how well she was fed.

I seem to remember reading that female livebearers are born with all the eggs they will ever have. Or is that humans? Or both and a lot of "livebearers" in between?

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