Sick Pregnant Guppy (And Hello)

[Teresa22]

Hi all, thank you for allowing me into this forum. I am a fairly new fish tank owner, and I have bought a pregnant female guppy. I have had her two weeks and she looks to be bursting. I must point out I did not intentionally buy her pregnant. The reason why was because I have a bully guppy who is in jail for first degree murder (in the breeder trap)and I wanted to take his mind of the one he is targeting- it did not work, and I now have more probs than when I first started with. The problem is a few days ago after realizing my girl was not far from giving birth I started cycling a second tank I have. Now today is still day one of cycling, as I set it up yesterday arvo, and I cannot possibly put her in there. I had a look at her this afternoon and she was resting on the bottom of the tank, which I have read up to mean she is close. I have then panicked and set up a 'temporary' confinement tank for the bully inside the tank, and put pregnant one in there. She seems to have livened up, but as I have to wait until my tank is cycled, does anyone have any tips for keeping the pregnant one and the bully alive(not a great set up a disposable food container-clean of course)?

 

[WILDER]

Size of tank in gallons or litries.
How many fish and whcih type.
Water stats in ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, and ph.

It's best to have more females to males. One male to 3 females.
If h';s bullying all the fish I would rehome him.

The only problem with having alot of females it that you get over run with fry.

I wouldn't contain her as it can cause her to abort the fry.
Bad water quality will harm the adult fish as well as young fry when there born.
Water changes and increase aeration.

 

[Teresa22]

Size of tank in gallons or litries.
How many fish and whcih type.
Water stats in ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, and ph.

It's best to have more females to males. One male to 3 females.
If h';s bullying all the fish I would rehome him.

The only problem with having alot of females it that you get over run with fry.

I wouldn't contain her as it can cause her to abort the fry.
Bad water quality will harm the adult fish as well as young fry when there born.
Water changes and increase aeration.

Size is 38Lt
1 corydoras
3 male guppy (1 confined)
2 females

Water PH 7.0
Ammonium 0
Nitrite 0.1
Nitrate 20 mg/l (but have run two filters overnight instead of one)They all have livened up (plus I found a tiny snail which I removed yesterday morning which could have spiked it)

I know having the two females is not nearly enough but my LFS did not advise me of this otherwise I would have got more. From what I can see my other two males are not overbearing and most of the time the two females a swimming together, they bottom dwell alot where the males top dwell. It is very odd, as I feel my girl may have aborted. She does not look pregnant this morning, and no babies to be seen. I have let her out of the breeder box as she was very lively this morning.

With the bully fish I am waiting for my breeding/quarantine tank to cycle, it is a hexagon with a 10lt hexagon in the middle. I will put the bully in there, and give him a visitor every now and then. The only one he doesn't attack is the predecessor bully, but the confinement worked wonders for him, now he just follows the other fish everywhere.

 

[spearsy]

as you might have found out you need 3 femail to 1 male so they can not hassel too much but try doing a water change of around 25%
this can solve some problems dont spit the fish as this will couse stress on the fish
try some megafix think that how you spell it but this is expencive stuff but solves loads of issues
any more probs
andrew