LadyDragon
Fish Fanatic
Okay guys, I've had guppies for years and never experienced this:
I have a senior (she is almost 2 years old, and many times over a great grandma) who has lived in my 30gallon since she was a fry... She is actually longer than some of my lyretail mollies! She has always been super healthy and produced easily, but in the past 2 months she has started developing a hunchback. She is SUPER pregnant (you can easily see fry eyes in her giant gravid spot) and I am fairly certain this pregnancy is the cause of her bending spine (no signs of illness anywhere with her or her tankmates, just a marble sized belly) ive never seen any of my other females do this, of course my next biggest Guppy female is HALF her size (and the same age, actually her sister from the same drop)
I guess my question is, how common (or at least "known to happen") is "gigantism" in Guppies? And could that be why she is starting to bend in the middle with this pregnancy? Is it possible she is just a mutant, or suffering some age related hormonal imbalance? She hasn't been with a male guppy for almost a year, she HAS been exposed to Lyretail Sailfin Molly males however (and the male she is loving with DOES mate with her frequently, and has since he was put in the tank...) All her babies have looked like regular guppies so I assumed she was just using sperm left over from her time with a male guppy long long ago... Is it possible that she "used up" all her reserves of male guppy sperm and fertilized this batch with Molly sperm and THAT is why she is so pregnant that she is starting to fold in the middle? Seems like a strange theory, but it's a strange thing how big she is...
All water peramaters are fine, all fish in the tank are healthy and happy, and even she is pretty happy looking inspire of the developing bend in her back and massive pregnancy... Any thoughts?
I have a senior (she is almost 2 years old, and many times over a great grandma) who has lived in my 30gallon since she was a fry... She is actually longer than some of my lyretail mollies! She has always been super healthy and produced easily, but in the past 2 months she has started developing a hunchback. She is SUPER pregnant (you can easily see fry eyes in her giant gravid spot) and I am fairly certain this pregnancy is the cause of her bending spine (no signs of illness anywhere with her or her tankmates, just a marble sized belly) ive never seen any of my other females do this, of course my next biggest Guppy female is HALF her size (and the same age, actually her sister from the same drop)
I guess my question is, how common (or at least "known to happen") is "gigantism" in Guppies? And could that be why she is starting to bend in the middle with this pregnancy? Is it possible she is just a mutant, or suffering some age related hormonal imbalance? She hasn't been with a male guppy for almost a year, she HAS been exposed to Lyretail Sailfin Molly males however (and the male she is loving with DOES mate with her frequently, and has since he was put in the tank...) All her babies have looked like regular guppies so I assumed she was just using sperm left over from her time with a male guppy long long ago... Is it possible that she "used up" all her reserves of male guppy sperm and fertilized this batch with Molly sperm and THAT is why she is so pregnant that she is starting to fold in the middle? Seems like a strange theory, but it's a strange thing how big she is...
All water peramaters are fine, all fish in the tank are healthy and happy, and even she is pretty happy looking inspire of the developing bend in her back and massive pregnancy... Any thoughts?
