pregnant guppy in my community tank please help

my guppy is pregnant in my community planted tank
my tank has angles in so i dont realy wnat to risk the fry
what should i do please help

 

MC, do you have any other tanks? Maybe a sall quarantine tank that you can set up for the guppy? Or even a sump...

Best to remove the guppy from the angel tank entirely and set up somewhere safer...?

Unless anyone else has any good ideas? I'm faced with the same dilemna - pregnant danio. I'm going to leave it this time around.

 

Um... I don't think danio's are livebearers. But they do tend got a rather round belly.

You can buy a breeding net if you don't have another tank MC. Don't get the plastic types... they are very small, and often the guppy will stress herself to death in one of them.

WHat I have is a fairly large net about 15cm (l) x 10cm x 10cm that has a plastic frame inside it, and then those sucker things that hold the net up against the glass. The idea is to put the female in there literally before she's about to give birth... but I've always waited for her to finish giving birth... and the babies that I find hiding in the plants I take out and put into the net. Often if you put the guppy into the net she will stress, and not give birth... often fatal to all.

 

so if i move her out into another tank wont that stress her aswell

and result in her not giving birth

 

If you can move her to another tank that would be the BEST option.

Just don't chase her too long in the tank. Wait patiently for her to come to the top of the water and gently net her out... but quickly.

 

its not pregnant i think it is sick
i just read on a sight for diseases and i think it has dropsy i will post a pic in ten minutes

 

Zoom i have found that the guppy fry swim staight through the holes in those nets.

Or maybe my guppys just have very small babies, i wanted to start a thread on this and ask for any other sugestions.

At the moment i have the net in place, but i don't put the mother into it and i find that the babies swim through the holes to get away from the other fish then i scoop them out with a plastic cup.

 

my guppy definetly has dropsy what must i do

 

MC 1 say goodbye guppy
dropsy = 1 soon to be dead fish (kidney Liver problem)

 

Then it's not the right net. My net is definately fine enough. It's almost lke stocking material.. just a lot thicker.

Terminate the guppy. Sorry dude... it's really not worth all the money on meds for a guppy. Sorry I'm being so blunt, but that would be my answer.

 

i did it was a sad moment to kill something that i raised from a small fry but it had to be done

 

Sorry dude. We all been there once...! It's a horrible feeling... but definately the most humane.

 

Sorry to hear about the guppy. Why were you so sure it was dropsy?

 

well i hadnt had a male with her ever exept for 2 days so she wouldnt have been as big as she was and she looked like a pinecone from above.
and i know this is grose but i was intrested to see what it looked like form the inside and there was a huge sist on i thinkher knidney .poor little thing.but next time i will know strait away and my fish wont have to go through a week of suffering

 

O Ok,just wondered.

 

oh ok its good to ask questions

 

Zoom, apologies - I do not know the official term for when a fish is holding eggs. I realize that danio's scatter their eggs, but I call her 'pregnant' because her belly indicates that she is holding eggs. (So I'm told by the breeder I got her from)

MC, so sorry to hear about the dropsy. Never a nice thing to face!

 

Hey MC, sorry to hear about your guppy and the dropsy Couldn't have been an easy thing to do.

 

Guppies a tough little buggers
MC - what environmental conditions do you suspect caused this?