My Pregnant Guppy, Molly, & Platy Journal

[lolobunnz]

I think i have an answer for your tanks with low ph! So i rented a book from the library right? Its called livebearers by wilfred l whitern.

It says:

An excess of decomposing organic matter (extra food/rotted plants) also competes with the fishes for oxygen. Not only does it deprive the fishes of oxygen, but it also causes an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide that is dissolved in the water, and this results in drastic changes in the chemisry of the water, often dropping the Ph well below the level most fish can tolerate.

 

[Billsfan905]

I think i have an answer for your tanks with low ph! So i rented a book from the library right? Its called livebearers by wilfred l whitern.

It says:

An excess of decomposing organic matter (extra food/rotted plants) also competes with the fishes for oxygen. Not only does it deprive the fishes of oxygen, but it also causes an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide that is dissolved in the water, and this results in drastic changes in the chemisry of the water, often dropping the Ph well below the level most fish can tolerate.

Wow thanks! That actually would have explained it! I've been siphoning the bottom lately and soo much waste has been taken out, and the pH is muuuch better.
Still low, 6.6, but way better than under 6.0! My fish don't seem to be minding it

Update- the 10 gallon tank is now a fry tank and I have tons of cute little fry in there! Had to separate my rams because one was so much smaller than the others & was being bullied- I rarely saw him, he didn`t grow, and was always hiding in plants!

Now he`s loving his new tank and guppy, molly, and platy tank mates

My guppy gave birth EXACTLY 30 days after her first drop, and my platy gave birth exactly 31 days after!

Some of my guppy fry are starting to get black dots on their tails, which makes me think those will be the males

Hopefully take pictures soon, but I`ve just started my 4th year of university and I am absolutely swamped with stuff.

 

[Billsfan905]

Just some pictures!:

Here are the fry, happy in their 10 gallon tank! They range from A week - 2 months old!

On the far left is a guppy, probably 3 weeks old. Then a platy around a month old and what looks like a white-ish platy probably around 2 weeks old!

Some guppies, probably females as what I assume their brothers are showing some colour on their tails already!

The momma who dropped her fry about a week or two ago- she's already looking bigger again! She was MASSIVE before she dropped her fry

2 prego platys again! The one on the left looks really small but she actually dropped her fry looking barely pregnant so she's probably due in a couple of weeks! One on right probably due in about 3 weeks.

My guppy who has dropped 2 batches of fry for me! She was looking stressed so I put her in the 35 gallon tank without any males. I'll leave her in there for a few weeks just to make sure she is super healthy and ready to mate again

 

[Billsfan905]

Just picked up a few new fish!
My new favourite fish:

She's prego! Hopefully drop some pretty fry like herself She's been stressed lately though, did a 40% WC today as nitrates were at ~40, and all the fish are so happy except her! She's been going up and down the glass and constantly moving and didn't eat when I gave them a veggie cube snack

This is the veggie snack I give them a couple times a week. They just LOVE it! It comes frozen in a cube and its a bunch of healthy vegetables blended together.

My other fish going CRAZY for the treat

yay for fry

One of my guppy fry changed into a male! LOL- wonder why he's still colourless though? odd.

 

[Billsfan905]

Update: my new molly dropped her fry! I moved about 16 over to the 10 gallon fry tank and fed them all some baby brine shrimp!
I also moved my four biggest fry over to the big tank I'm afraid they are getting big enough they might eat the new tiny tiny fry!

 

[Billsfan905]

Soooo I noticed a few of my fish looked extra skinny, slowly one at a time.. and some even passed.
Analyzed their poop and it's long stringy and clear. PARASITES.

I've been treating my tank for internal parasites for 3 days now and my EXTREME skinny female guppy who I thought was a write off has been coming around!
My other fish don't seem to be minding it either. So happy!
It's parasite guard by tetra, they're tablets and they fizz.

My fry are growing up so much and they're getting so cute! I can tell most of the guppy's colouring now! I will post pictures soon =D

Also, a fish that I thought was a plain guppy turned out to be an endler or endler-hybrid. They gave it to me free at the LFS because it was in there with the giant bolivian rams probably going to be eaten eventually.

 

[slimeneo]

Aw, I hope they get better! I had a similar situation awhile ago, I treated with parasite guard too.

 

[MooKretzelMan]

I really enjoyed reading your journal so far. You are taking great care of all of your fish! I remember at one point I had a small tank with about 30 little fry in it. I eventually had to take them to my local fish store, but I loved having them. It is really exciting to see what colors they all end up having on them, especially the guppy fry.

I am looking forward to seeing more pictures of the fry in the future.

 

[Billsfan905]

Aw, I hope they get better! I had a similar situation awhile ago, I treated with parasite guard too.

Parasite guard to the rescue! It seems to have worked! One fish I bought who I thought was pregnant (had clamped fins.. I should have known) I put it in the parasite-treating tank and now it is normal sized with no clamped fins, and swims around happily yay!

I really enjoyed reading your journal so far. You are taking great care of all of your fish! I remember at one point I had a small tank with about 30 little fry in it. I eventually had to take them to my local fish store, but I loved having them. It is really exciting to see what colors they all end up having on them, especially the guppy fry.

I am looking forward to seeing more pictures of the fry in the future.

Aww thank you so much! I really do love them!
Yes, I probably have about 40 fry in my 10 gallon tank, they're growing quickly! I'm going to have to start finding them homes!
Some of the fry were pretty big & I was worried they may eat the tiny ones so I moved them in with my big fish in the 29 gallon tank. They're happy in there.

So neat to see the guppy colouring come out! Will post pictures very soon, probably tonight.

 

[slimeneo]

Yay pictures! Looking forward to them!

 

[Billsfan905]

This is cool! This was a fish I got from the LFS randomly when they gave me my bolivian rams. It was a regular colourless fry, then developed the male parts, and now is super colourful with endler-y colours!

It was so hard to get a good picture. Under the light the colours are super neon!

This is my molly 4 days ago! She's still big, and is looking more squared off! I expect her to drop her fry sometime this week.

This is my platy who has had 2 fry drops for me already! You can see the eyes! This was 4 days ago as well, she is giant right now and I expect her deliver anytime now! You can see one of her fry in the picture

The bluey fish on top is the enlder-guppy in the 1st picture! Such nice colours now
To the right is the extremely pregnant platy from above. My swordtail male, and white prego molly

Just dropped some of the cyclops into my tanks and some baby brine shrimp for the fry tank My fish go crazy for this stuff, CRAZY! My danios especially love it!

 

[slimeneo]

Love the pictures!

The orange platy fry next to the filter in picture 4 is soooo cute!! How many fish do you have in total now, if you can count em all?!

and for your platys, how long are their gestation periods? My platy gave birth sept 8, and she's pregnant for what seems like forever! Isn't it supposed to be ~4 weeks? it's been 6 weeks!

 

[MooKretzelMan]

Those are great pictures! Everyone looks to be doing really well.

 

[Billsfan905]

My guppy gave birth EXACTLY one month after the 1st to the day!
My platies are usually ~5 weeks! Today is exactly 5 weeks since she gave birth on sept 16th last! Right now she's acting weird and is giant, she's probably going to drop tonight! She swimming up and down, stressed, poor girl! Going to turn the light off.

I haven't even counted Not too many, a lot of them get eaten Probably ~50 hehe

Your platy is probably going to drop soon!

 

[slimeneo]

My guppy gave birth EXACTLY one month after the 1st to the day!
My platies are usually ~5 weeks! Today is exactly 5 weeks since she gave birth on sept 16th last! Right now she's acting weird and is giant, she's probably going to drop tonight! She swimming up and down, stressed, poor girl! Going to turn the light off.

I haven't even counted Not too many, a lot of them get eaten Probably ~50 hehe

Your platy is probably going to drop soon!

50 is a lot!!!! Lucky you have space for them how many of them have you named?

Ah, so they usually give birth at night? Hopefully mine will give birth soon )
Oh wow, more platy fry for you!