Encouraging Molly And Guppy To "drop"

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cookiemistress

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I had 2 guppies and a molly that were pregnant so i moved them over to a spare tank but nothing came of it and they got slimmer so i guessed they aborted but now everyone is back in the main tank other guppies seem to be getting bigger - not over feeding and definately pregnant.
I've upped the temp slightly from 23 to 24/25 degrees, there are plenty of plants etc but just wondering if there was anything else i could try to encourage them to drop?
 
If you were to make the fish drop before shes ready there is no doubt that the babies would all just die off. Let nature take it's course and leave them to do there thing.
 
Just make sure the water quality is as good as it can be and as techen said let nature takes its course. The plants will provide places for the fry to hide when they do arrive.
 
There are a few ways to encourage them to drop their fry although I am not going to go into detail on how to do this as it is really unnecessary to do so it can course stress or even death to the fish.
 
 
As been mentioned you should use plenty of plants for the fry to hide, I strongly recommend you use live food for adult fish and keep them well fed, this will keep them from attacking the baby fish or fry
 

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