Help Ar These Fish Pregnant

[nic1977]

Hi i hope someone can help me i think these fish are pregnant but not 100% sure

First is a platy but she has looked like this since i brought her and thats nearly two months ago so i don't think she is pregnant.

Then i have a couple of Mollys again i'm not sure and if they sre pregnant how much longer till they have babies i'm really new to all this

I couldn't get very good pictures of the orange molly as she kept swimming away the orange one has been sitting on the bottom of the tank quite a lot and seems to be hiding

 

[kizno1]

the platy still looks like it will be a while wait till it squares of a little
and the mollys look a lil closer but i still think they will be a whlie

 

[nic1977]

I was a little worried about the platy because she seems to have looked like this for about 2 months and i don't think she has had any babies

 

[kizno1]

they have fry about ever 1 and a half to 2 months but she still dont look very close because shes not square but im no expert

 

[jackyb07s4]

the platy looks incredibly fat. Sounds like you need to cut down on the feeding.

 

[nic1977]

I only feed them a small pinch of flake food once a day and at night i put in a couple of algae wafers for my plecos although the other fish eat them as well is this still too much.

 

[arobinson1984]

Is it possible that the mollies are balloon mollies??

 

[OldMan47]

That balloon is a male ARobinson.

The dalmatian looks about the same stage as this girl which was exactly 10 days before her last drop.

Platies I find harder to judge but I think you have several days left before she delivers too.

 

[pippoodle]

if the fish have been looking like this for a couple of months you could have missed a drop that all the fish ate the fry
if you want to check you're not over feeding just give them a 2 day break on the feeding and if they shrink then yes you are over feeding

they will be ok being fed every other day

my platys before delivery alwayts went completely flat bottomed _________ like you could balance them on a straight piece of wood - more squared off than my guppys ever were

 

[nic1977]

Thanks for everyones advice and opinions i will try not feeding them and see what happens i have 4 platys 2 i think ar e male and 2 i think are female but they all look a bit fat round the middle so maybe they are getting too much. I think i have a female guppy pregnant now she doesn't look very round around the middle but i can seethe dark patch on her and what l;ooks like little eyes think i'm just going to have to keep an eye on them all. Its just cause this is the first time i've had pregnant fish i would really love to save some of the fry.

On another matter with swordtails do the males develop their tails from birth or can it take a while when we brought them I asked for 2 females and a male that was about 2 months ago and thats what i thought i'd got but when i looked the other day the white one that the LFS said was a female has started to get the longer swordtail nit on his fin will it matter now that there is only one female.

 

[OldMan47]

A swordtail is one of the worst fish to try to sex reliably. I have a nice male that showed no sign of a long tail or a gonopodium until he was over 8 months old and about 4 inches long. There are abundant stories about swordtails changing their sex as adults but, for a fish that has a genetic sex determination like a swordtail, I am inclined to believe that late developers are being called sex changers.