PrairieSunflower
Fish Gatherer
A little history before I describe the problem.
My female guppy has just had babies. 4 days ago she squared off (she was huge, this was her second batch of fry, her first one was 31 fry no problems)... she didn't have her babies that day. The next day I found her bottom sitting, this is something she has never ever done before. I was quite concerned as she was still squared off and nothing had happened yet. Later that day she started having some babies and eating them as though never feed before. I managed to save 4 of them. She was even trying to eat my larger fry and I became concerned she would harm them... I used a cup and moved her into a mesh box instead. She kept having babies and kept eating them... then started birthing still born babies. Yesterday she was still birthing (second day of birthing), most seemed to be stillborn and she was eating nearly every single one of those. Then suddenly she had a whole host of live babies and I probably ended up with about 30 in the end. Then some of those started dieing too, I estimate that this morning I have about 20 that seem to be healthy. I am only guessing that she had maybe 50-70 babies as there is really no way to know, I just know it was a lot.
This morning my female is swimming a big funny, the tail is higher than her body, maybe a 20-30 degree angle. She was swimming that way to begin with and after a few hours she has started hovering mostly anywhere at the surface.
I feed her along with the others this morning and she did poop, so I doubt its a constipation issue. I have since decided to put her in the mesh box (she isn't a fretter) being the only wait I can avoid feeding her for a period to see if that might help possible swim bladder.
I'd love some opinions on the best things to do, if anything.
I recently lost another female from a birth related injury (having her first batch of just 4 fry), would be sad to lose another.
My female guppy has just had babies. 4 days ago she squared off (she was huge, this was her second batch of fry, her first one was 31 fry no problems)... she didn't have her babies that day. The next day I found her bottom sitting, this is something she has never ever done before. I was quite concerned as she was still squared off and nothing had happened yet. Later that day she started having some babies and eating them as though never feed before. I managed to save 4 of them. She was even trying to eat my larger fry and I became concerned she would harm them... I used a cup and moved her into a mesh box instead. She kept having babies and kept eating them... then started birthing still born babies. Yesterday she was still birthing (second day of birthing), most seemed to be stillborn and she was eating nearly every single one of those. Then suddenly she had a whole host of live babies and I probably ended up with about 30 in the end. Then some of those started dieing too, I estimate that this morning I have about 20 that seem to be healthy. I am only guessing that she had maybe 50-70 babies as there is really no way to know, I just know it was a lot.
This morning my female is swimming a big funny, the tail is higher than her body, maybe a 20-30 degree angle. She was swimming that way to begin with and after a few hours she has started hovering mostly anywhere at the surface.
I feed her along with the others this morning and she did poop, so I doubt its a constipation issue. I have since decided to put her in the mesh box (she isn't a fretter) being the only wait I can avoid feeding her for a period to see if that might help possible swim bladder.
I'd love some opinions on the best things to do, if anything.
I recently lost another female from a birth related injury (having her first batch of just 4 fry), would be sad to lose another.
