New Platy Breeder

[new2breading]

Hello I am new to the forum and platy's.... I just got a female that is a little distended. Is there any way to tell if she is actually pregnant

 

[-FighterFishh]

Hello I am new to the forum and platy's.... I just got a female that is a little distended. Is there any way to tell if she is actually pregnant

If she is pregnant she'll have a gravid spot (a black block) by her anal fin.
Looks like this:

 

[new2breading]

Thank u so much I will look

If this is showing how long before she is "full term.....lol

 

[AstonN24vantage]

thats for guppies. platies arent transparent, so its hard to see. if she is wide AND fat, you'll know. it usually takes a little while thru her pregnancy that you find her pregnant cause she needs to grow.

 

[new2breading]

LOL ok I think we have it I have Fat and Black! So I will Be a First timer soon

 

[OldMan47]

There are two fairly good posts at the top of this part of the forum for relating the stage you have in your female livebearers. One of them has lots of pictures of near full term platies and the other traces one of my mollies from one fry drop to the next with pictures every few days along the way. Both have lots of commentary.
The gravid spot, which FighterFishh has pointed out is one of the simplest and least reliable ways of judging the state of the fish. It is simple and most beginners quickly learn to look for it but it is very misleading because the color you see depends more on the fish's natural skin coloring than on the state of development. The golden colored molly in my thread never shows any color at all but she definitely drops the fry. She was the only adult molly in that tank when I was taking the pictures.

 

[new2breading]

Thank you so much that is very helpful

 

[AstonN24vantage]

There are two fairly good posts at the top of this part of the forum for relating the stage you have in your female livebearers. One of them has lots of pictures of near full term platies and the other traces one of my mollies from one fry drop to the next with pictures every few days along the way. Both have lots of commentary.
The gravid spot, which FighterFishh has pointed out is one of the simplest and least reliable ways of judging the state of the fish. It is simple and most beginners quickly learn to look for it but it is very misleading because the color you see depends more on the fish's natural skin coloring than on the state of development. The golden colored molly in my thread never shows any color at all but she definitely drops the fry. She was the only adult molly in that tank when I was taking the pictures.

i recently had a drop of guppies, and all of the females have gravid spots, and even though they're sexually mature, they're not pregnant. just goes to show

 

[new2breading]

well It has happened I guess she was it happened just like old man said.... But I think there were only 6 that are alive. I see many on the bottom of the breeder tank.. Is this normal?

 

[nicklos]

well It has happened I guess she was it happened just like old man said.... But I think there were only 6 that are alive. I see many on the bottom of the breeder tank.. Is this normal?

They could have been dead or still have yolksacks. Sometimes if the female isn't exactly full term, she can birth some fry with yolksacks still attached. Sometimes they pull through.