gave birth still preg?

[phoenixrb]

Hi all,

One of my guppies gave birth a week ago, but her gravid spot still looks dark and she still has a distended belly. Could she still have babies in there?

Is the gestation period for guppies about 22-30days? not completely sure. One other of my females as a dark gravid spot, also has a distended belly. I have put her in the birthing tank but she still hasn't give birth. I keep swapping the females incase they deliver whilst i'm not looking. Any ideas?

Can anyone give me the history of guppies please, will help me with my research loads thanks.

Rachel. UK

 

[SnowyzMom]

Guppies, from one wing ding with a male, can birth several sets of fry. Mine seem to birth about once a month. It takes awhile for them to birth everyone as there can be 25+ babies! owch (I've only had four! ) They get really square looking when they're about ready to pop out the babies. Mine tend to go to the heavily planted area of the tank and stay motionless there. The babies drop down among the java moss and river rocks pretty fast and go hide. Hope you're a momma soon!

 

[Annastasia]

Can anyone give me the history of guppies please, will help me with my research loads thanks.

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Guppy History!

Also, taken from this site: http/www.praphan.com/farm/index.htm

History of The Guppy
The Poeciliidae, or viviparous tooth carps, are fishes which bear living young. This family is found only in the Americas. The ancestral home of the guppy is the northern coastal sectors of South America, Venezuela, Guyana and some of the islands of the Carribean Sea. The first scientist to describe this small freshwater fish was a German ichthyologist, Wilhelm C.H. Peters, who in 1859 found them in Rio Guaire, Caracas, Venezuela. They looked so much like those fish in the Poecilia family that he named them Poecilia reticulata. The word 'reticulata' refers to the overlapping scales that form a lace-like pattern on the body of the guppy. Two years later, Senior Filippi, in Spain, probably unaware of Peters' description obtained some specimens from Barbados and considered them to represent a new genus, which he called Lebistes. He noted their resemblance to Poecilia he called them Lebistes poeciloides. (Frazer-Brunner, 1953).

The popular name of guppy was given to this fish about 5 years later when the English botanist, Robert John Lechmere Guppy brought back some preserved specimens from Trindad for identification. Dr. Albert Gunther of the British Museum identified the specimens as a new species and called them Girardinus guppyi in honour of Robert Guppy. The name "guppy" has stuck to this day and became popular. The guppy is also known as the rainbow fish bacause of the numerous colour patterns and as the millions fish bacause it is a prolific breeder.

Hope this is what you are looking for.