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matt4471

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I have a female platy (forgot the name :P). I just got her from the pet store yesterday, and i wanted to know if she looked pregnant, or if she is just fat. I'll add a pic below. Thanks!

(I'm a noob at pregnancies...)
 
Guppys, Platys, Swordtails & Mollys are pregnant 99% of the time so if yours was in a tank with a male at any stage (even as half-grown fry), she will be pregnant. These species can store semen from past matings so don't even need to mate every time to have fertilized embyros start forming. If she looks pregnant, she almost definately is. They usually give birth every 30 days so the very most you'll have to wait is 30 days. Probably less if she is almost ready to drop. There's another thread here about the shape of the female's tummy turning from rounded, to a boxy, flat-bottomed look. The photo in that thread could help you too. Just check every morning and evening for babys in the tank. You might want to put in some thick weed for the babies to hide in if you have other tank mates that might eat them or you can put the female in a breeder net so that she and her babies are safe from other fish. You'll have to keep an eye on the mother too because they can sometimes decide to snack on their babies after a day or two as well, though not usually.
 
Guppys, Platys, Swordtails & Mollys are pregnant 99% of the time so if yours was in a tank with a male at any stage (even as half-grown fry), she will be pregnant. These species can store semen from past matings so don't even need to mate every time to have fertilized embyros start forming. If she looks pregnant, she almost definately is. They usually give birth every 30 days so the very most you'll have to wait is 30 days. Probably less if she is almost ready to drop. There's another thread here about the shape of the female's tummy turning from rounded, to a boxy, flat-bottomed look. The photo in that thread could help you too. Just check every morning and evening for babys in the tank. You might want to put in some thick weed for the babies to hide in if you have other tank mates that might eat them or you can put the female in a breeder net so that she and her babies are safe from other fish. You'll have to keep an eye on the mother too because they can sometimes decide to snack on their babies after a day or two as well, though not usually.

Thanks So Much!!
 
Welcome to our forum Matt.
We do have a couple of threads pinned at the top of the livebearer section to help you determine where your fish may be with carrying fry. I think well of the molly story, as you might expect since I put it together.
Posting pictures here is easy but hard. The hard part is that we really don't have much room for pictures so they are hard to actually post here. The easy part is that places like photobucket are easy to use and posting the [ IMG ] link here as if it were text makes it look like your picture is right here on TFF. This is a picture sample of a harbor seal that I found on the beach a few years back. It is not on TFF at all. If you right click the picture you can find the properties of that picture and even see where I have stored it listed under image info.
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