First Timer Guppy Paranoia

[Ritingyou]

I have a yellow guppy with an orange tail. It is impossible to see how dark her gavid patch is and as for the birthing tube.. I've watched her for housrs and I see it from angle but it blends in with her body so it's hard to see. I put her in her own special tank with floating plants only (no gravel so i can make sure I get all the nasty left food and poop I need to get out) With a filter and my house keeps it around 72-74 degrees F.

Last night she was darting around acting very nervous, and then my cat accidently knocked a platic empty betta tank in there and scared her I took it out as soon as it fell in and went back to sleep and now this morning she is barley eating! I tried giving her crushed sinking pellets and she didnt touch any of it. Then tried blood worms and she only ate one... (thats her favorite food!)She use to go nuts over bloodworms so its really not normal. Shes staying really close to the floating plants now. Most of the time I cant even see her.

I'm fearing that my cat scareing her has caused her to be so stressed that she wont eat.. Please help me with my paranoia and tell me it just may be time she ggive birth instead... I'd feel really bad if shes being stressed..

 

[OldMan47]

I am going to deviate a bit from my usual advice here Ritingyou. Please have a look through my molly thread to help you understand using body shape instead of gravid spots to tell how you are doing. I can never see a gravid spot on one of my mollies but I can predict the next drop within just a few days. The way I do it is to study the shape, not the size, of the females. You can get to my thread by following the link in my signature called My Molly's Progress. It has pictures of one of my female mollies from one drop to the next with a bit of description to go with each picture. There are pictures where the female has simply been eating well and is swollen and others where she is showing her progress well from drop to drop. If you can pick up on the general idea I am trying to give you, you will walk up to a tank that you have never seen before and simply say "8 days to go" with confidence that you have called it within a day or two. The idea is to make each person an expert on judging their own fish's status.
Guppies and mollies are very close relatives. They are close enough that a cross is possible although it is seldom seen. Those pictures are a good way to judge a guppy.