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11 Baby Fry with Red Stomachs

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By jessiejessielowlow, Section Ask Guppylog
Posted on Sun May 20, 2007 at 09:34:26 PM PST
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Hello. I'm new to this site so please bare with me.



My guppy gave birth to 11 fry this morning and none of them survied. All of them had red stomachs..I thought they could be bleeding from the inside? This was my first time breeding guppies so I wasnt sure if it was normal or not. Sorry if this been asked before.

hmm...was it just their coloration?

I was waiting for the fry for weeks. I'm really upset that not even 1 made it. Oh well.

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11 Baby Fry with Red Stomachs | 3 comments (3 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: 11 Baby Fry with Red Stomachs (none / 1) (#3)
by The Q man on Fri May 18, 2007 at 09:03:39 AM PST

   Sorry to hear about your loss. Things like that happen to everyone at one time or another.  Sounds like a premature drop. Try and be more descriptive. Where there small red sack hanging onto the stomache. Let me know if the fry looked like this. http://youtube.com/watch?v=xY25jPdckT0&mode=related&search=. Look at the fry and you will see they have sacs on their stomache. If yours had those they were premature. Did you move your female two weeks before delivory? If you did that could have stressed her causing her to have a premature birth. Other things that can happen are miscaridges and she could get fry bound. If she gets fry bound she will likly die. So do this. Right down the date and time of her last birth. Add 28 days onto that and see what day next month that lands on. Now that you know about what time next month she will deliver don't move her two weeks before that day. Keep a log of all your females births. This way you will be able to predict when you should get ready for fry and by what female. Also read through the F.A.Q and the immediate help for newbies at your top right hand corner. If whe just had a premature drop she will likly be able to continue producing fry. Also when asking a qyestion please try to add as much information as possible. Like what other fish you have, what size tanks, water condition, etc. Read those 40 questions. Ya, I know you probably don't want to. But the more info you add to your question the better we can help you.
 GOOD LUCK!!! :)  



I'm sorry about the death of those fry. Red (none / 1) (#2)
by unclescott on Fri May 18, 2007 at 07:09:54 AM PST

stomachs are very usual in new-borns. Without someone (who would know what they are doing - probably not me) doing a post-mortum dissection within minutes of death, there is no way of knowing whether the red indicated birth defects, internal bleeding, parasites, a bacterial infection or something else.

A pretty standard question at this stage of the game is to ask if you moved the late term female within the last week. Many times we get away with that, but too often there is a premature drop or other complication.

You told us little about your tank in terms of its temperature, filtration, tankmates, how many weeks you have been waiting (this asked by a guy who sits in front of a microwave and screams "FASTER") and much more. Take a look at the 40 questions in
http://www.guppylog.com/story/2005/6/24/82111/0134
and see if answering any of them is possible.

By the bye. I understand that we seldom are going to read a site's rules and FAQs when we are preoccupied with an immediate issue in our aquarium. But you will often get a quicker response if you post a relatively short question as a diary. More people will see it sooner.

I'll vote you your "mulligan" this time. But a several hundred word Log submission is often too short to be a real log. ;)

Give your female guppy all of the TLC you can. Hopefully she will be able to deliver healthy fry next time. If you offer some specifics on the tank and care, maybe more specific suggestions can be made. :)

Good luck and all the best!



-1, because (none / 0) (#1)
by Scott Lockwood on Fri May 18, 2007 at 07:05:52 AM PST

Your opening paragraph should be about the submission you're writing, not
Hello. I'm new to this site so please bare with me.

That's Meta. Meta does not belong in a log submission. Meta == Diary.

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