Gravid Spot! Gravid Spot!

rahina · Jul 30, 2006

I know that when the fish is about to deliver its gravid spot is the clearest and the biggest. well!!!

my fish seem to have this gravid spot but very small. their bellies aren't swollen. which tells me they are not pregnant. :sad:

sometimes there bellies appear swollen at night but not in the morning how can I really tell if they are pregnant or not :blink:

sizar · Jul 30, 2006

rahina said:
I know that when the fish is about to deliver its gravid spot is the clearest and the biggest. well!!! my fish seem to have this gravid spot but very small. their bellies aren't swollen. which tells me they are not pregnant. sometimes there bellies appear swollen at night but not in the morning how can I really tell if they are pregnant or not

i had the same problem myself and yes it can drive you crazy the garvidspot appers to get bigger because that's when you feed them and that's where the food goes usually when the gravid spot get big and it's behind it's anal fin it means that's the fishes waste and because it's black and the fishes stomach is claer make the gravid spot apper bigger and when they realse the waste it goes back to nowmal my advice would be to see how many females and males you have it should be 1 female two 2 males or if you really want fry and can't be bothered to wait just buy some pregnant females from the pet sotre and some can give birth on the same day just get the female with the largestgravid spot the bigger the more babies and sooner it will give birth.

rahina · Jul 30, 2006

thanks for your reply. I 've got five females to a male (a species) and three females to a male (another species) is that okay? by the way does feeding them live worms make them have more fries at one time more than dried food does?

Annastasia · Jul 30, 2006

Perhaps they are pregnant, just with a small batch of fry. They'll always have a gravid spot, so don't expect it to go away.

As far as I'm aware, Live foods do not make a difference. She only has so many eggs per batch, I don't see how food could change that... :huh:

Somethings Fishy Here · Aug 1, 2006

rahina said:
thanks for your reply. I 've got five females to a male (a species) and three females to a male (another species) is that okay? by the way does feeding them live worms make them have more fries at one time more than dried food does?

I'm not sure about this (as I haven't paid attention to it in my own experiences) but I have heard that livebearers will have smaller batches of fry their first time being bred, and then have more fry each time thereafter. I'm not sure if this is the first time for these fish or not, but if it is I would guess that that may explain the possibility of them being pregnant but not overly bulged.

rahina · Aug 3, 2006

Guess what !!! to make matters worse a female guppy has delivered her fry

before I could transfer her to the fry tank :grr:

I thought she still has time her belly wasn't big enough. the gravid spot wasn't that big and she swam all over the tank. she didn't settle or breathe heavily as I read :sly:

I hate the females when they do this

Rafael Dilone · Aug 3, 2006

Annastasia said:
Perhaps they are pregnant, just with a small batch of fry. They'll always have a gravid spot, so don't expect it to go away.

As far as I'm aware, Live foods do not make a difference. She only has so many eggs per batch, I don't see how food could change that...

I was going to say the same thing :lol:

I have had female guppies with a small stomach and a big gravid spot deliver babys. But the small gravid stop is another secondary sex characteristic to indicate that the guppy is a female. I have some 1 month old guppy female fry with a tinny gravid spot.