Female Guppy Pregnancy,

[t4ppo]

Hello, well the monday afternoon i bought home just 1 female guppy from my lfs, By the time i had got her home there were 4 fry in the bag with her!, Now i rushed out and bought a trap and put her in it, yet no more babies have appeared she is still fat and also has a very vivid black spot at the back, The other 4 babies seem healthy enough, SO the question is, are there more was it an early delivery? Is she going to give birth again? Also to not she has been hiding in my plants all day today and wont stop eating them more than she has done since i had her also wont stop pooing!, ANy help?? Thanks

 

[soybean]

She's very likely to give birth again as female guppies are capable of storing sperm to produce pregnancies. Stress can bring on birth, but can also cause pregnancies to be 'aborted', with the fry being reabsorbed.

Please don't put her in traps, they're so stressful and unnatural and small.

The best way to keep her happy and drop fry successfully is to provide plenty of plant cover and just leave her to it. If you want to save the fry, have plenty of bushy plants and moss, or net them and put them in a breeding net.

The black spot isn't always a guarantee of pregnancy, it might become more obvious but some females have them all the time.

She wil probably drop fry again but there's no point trying to predict when.