She Needed Help.

[Paradise3]

Midnight started to drop fry last night at 7pm and finished at about 2pm today.
I was watching her closely because she had only had 12 by 1pm today but was still very fat. I noticed she had something hanging from her rear end and when i looked closely i realized it was a tail! She had a baby stuck. She needed assistance through the rest of the process.

Missy x.

 

[nosoup4you]

And how did you "assist" if I might ask?

 

[Paradise3]

I put her in the breeding trap with the bottom part in and gently caught her between my thumb and fore finger and very, very, gently, so i didn't hurt her, squeezed her stomach from the front to the back so i was slowly squeezing the babies out. She got more than one stuck which is why i assisted her, if it was just the one i would have helped her get that one out then left her but they kept getting stuck after that so i had to assist. She hardly moved through the whole process so she must have known i was helping her.
Shes fine now and is eating healthily. I got quite a few from her.

Missy x.

 

[nosoup4you]

How odd, I have about 5 million guppies and I have never had to assist in a birth. Perhaps you should not breed her or her offspring as they might have similar issues. Don't take my word for it though, I am hardly an expert on guppy genetics. I am glad she is doing well. Congrats on the new brood!

 

[Paradise3]

Yeah there was quite a few!

Missy x.

 

[biokid101]

after u assisted her the babies were alive?

 

[Night61]

this reminds me a story i heard a while back of a man and a butterfly.

he was walking though the woods, and he saw a butterfly struggling to emerge from its cacoon. the man took pity on the struggle and went over to help. the butterfly died shortly after because it did not have the strength it would have gained by braking from the shell on its own.


anyways take what you will from that

 

[Paradise3]

There were a few stillborns but the majority of them were alive. So i have about 40 more babies because she gave birth to about 50 but like i said some were stillborns and the rest were alive. The numbers might be abit off because i couldn't count them properly.
After i had turned my computer off at 11pm i went up to see how they were all doing and midnight wasn't looking too good. I don't know what happened because i was so gentle with her that even a butterflies wing wouldn't have ripped(don't ask about the comparison). I kept an eye on her and put a very, very, minuscule amount of food in to see what she would do and she didn't eat. She died at about 12:30pm! I cried myself to sleep last night because even though rainbow was my favourite in general daytime personality midnight was always the first to "wake up" in the morning and always the first one to greet me at the front of the tank. I think she might have been ill or something because first the babies were getting stuck then this. But after the babies were out she ate like a pig. I miss her soo much already.

Missy x.

 

[Harlequins]

Sorry to hear midnight died

Personally i would have left her too it,in nature they don't have someone help them out...i had a platy that took 12 hours to finish her drop,she had 8 in a space of 5 hours,but i left her too it 7 hours after that she had 50! and she was the same with having them get stuck but she managed to push them out.Next drop after that she had 72!!

You done what you thought was right at the time.

 

[Paradise3]

Well i thought she would get it out so left her to it but i went back an hour later and she had still got it there.

Missy x.