Suddenly aggressive female guppy

[biofish]

One of my heavily pregnant female guppies has suddenly started nipping heavily at her fellow ladies. Is that a sign of about to go into labor? She looks ready to pop and I thought she would go into labor soon a week ago. I’m taking out the other ladies just in case. There were three in a 10 gallon by themselves and now it’s just her. She’s also swimming very very erratically

she’s given birth a lot but I don’t recall her ever getting aggressive beforehand

Edit: added some more pictures

Why is her anal hole area white?

 

[Crunchycrouton]

One of my heavily pregnant female guppies has suddenly started nipping heavily at her fellow ladies. Is that a sign of about to go into labor? She looks ready to pop and I thought she would go into labor soon a week ago. I’m taking out the other ladies just in case. There were three in a 10 gallon by themselves and now it’s just her. She’s also swimming very very erratically View attachment 155267she’s given birth a lot but I don’t recall her ever getting aggressive beforehand

Edit: added some more pictures

Why is her anal hole area white?

She’s establishing a pecking order. This is more popular while they’re pregnant.

 

[Sgooosh]

She’s establishing a pecking order. This is more popular while they’re pregnant.

one time my female guppy scared the heck out of my other guppies. get her into a seperate box, but don't let her touch air. just like scoop her with a watertight container into a seperation

 

[biofish]

one time my female guppy scared the heck out of my other guppies. get her into a seperate box, but don't let her touch air. just like scoop her with a watertight container into a seperation

Luckily she was already in the birthing tank so I just took out the other not-as-pregnant ladies and returned them to the main tank (I’m trying to mark each of their individual birthing cycles. So like once one gives birth she goes back to the main tank and I set a reminder on my phone to put her back in the birthing tank in 22 days. I’m trying to figure out a method to tell who gives birth to who rather than the chaos of fishing them out of the main tank. There were only three ladies with unfinished cycles still in breeding tank so I just took the other two out)

Still no fry which is awfully suspicious. I hope nothings wrong. She’s releasing big thick poops so hopefully that’s her pre delivery poops

 

[biofish]

Ah. Her tummy looks flatter and sees swimming in place by the heater. So hopefully there shall by babies in the morning. This particular lady produces the sexiest blue babies tbh. Like. All of her kids are absolute lookers. The males especially because of their huge top fins. And the females inherited a nice soft blue tails. This latest batch I breed her with a super fancy long fin blue guppy (that unfortunately didn’t live very long) for a couple weeks so I hoping for even prettier BABIES.

 

[Crunchycrouton]

Ah. Her tummy looks flatter and sees swimming in place by the heater. So hopefully there shall by babies in the morning. This particular lady produces the sexiest blue babies tbh. Like. All of her kids are absolute lookers. The males especially because of their huge top fins. And the females inherited a nice soft blue tails. This latest batch I breed her with a super fancy long fin blue guppy (that unfortunately didn’t live very long) for a couple weeks so I hoping for even prettier BABIES.

They’re literally so cute I love them

 

[emeraldking]

Ah. Her tummy looks flatter and sees swimming in place by the heater. So hopefully there shall by babies in the morning. This particular lady produces the sexiest blue babies tbh. Like. All of her kids are absolute lookers. The males especially because of their huge top fins. And the females inherited a nice soft blue tails. This latest batch I breed her with a super fancy long fin blue guppy (that unfortunately didn’t live very long) for a couple weeks so I hoping for even prettier BABIES.

Well, in the first pics of your topic, she does look pregnant. But I wouldn't call her heavily pregnant. For heavily pregnant female guppies are way bigger.

You've mentioned that you bred her also with a long fin blue male guppy. Well, if she still had stored sperm packets in the folds of her fallopian tube, the offspring could still be of a male that has mated before with her. To be sure that this other male (he's sadly died, you've mentioned) is the father of the new offspring, you better use a virgin female. And maybe he has mated with her. If that's the case, and if she was also not clean yet (out of stored sperm packets), the offspring can be fathered by at least two fathers or more. As long as you don't know if she was clean, it will be uncertain who the father will be of the new offspring. Stored sperm packets can take up to over a year in a female's body. And not just a couple of months as some people like to believe.

But I do like the blue on your guppies...

 

[biofish]

Well, in the first pics of your topic, she does look pregnant. But I wouldn't call her heavily pregnant. For heavily pregnant female guppies are way bigger.

You've mentioned that you bred her also with a long fin blue male guppy. Well, if she still had stored sperm packets in the folds of her fallopian tube, the offspring could still be of a male that has mated before with her. To be sure that this other male (he's sadly died, you've mentioned) is the father of the new offspring, you better use a virgin female. And maybe he has mated with her. If that's the case, and if she was also not clean yet (out of stored sperm packets), the offspring can be fathered by at least two fathers or more. As long as you don't know if she was clean, it will be uncertain who the father will be of the new offspring. Stored sperm packets can take up to over a year in a female's body. And not just a couple of months as some people like to believe.

But I do like the blue on your guppies...

Thank you for the information! I discovered that annoying tendency to store sperm from previous partners when one of my male endler guppy slipped into my female tank way back when I only had a divider separating the genders rather than two entirely separate tanks cause I’m STILL getting endler babies. I can no longer tell which one was my original and I bred the one male with several of my ladies, none of which I think are clean, but that’s why I’m watching so hard for the fry. On the chance that he did mate (he was relentless for the first week and chilled the second week so I’m sure at least one lady accepted it. His death was incredibly sudden too and had been swimming happily the night before) , I wanna try and save as many of his offspring as possible.

And I’ve never actually had huge female pregnant guppies actually that I’ve seen in pictures. This is typically how they look when they pop for me and only drop 5-20 for me (or at least that’s all that’s left when I discover them. All of my ladies have done small batches and I’m not really sure why) so I typically refer to heavily pregnant as “about to give birth” not about to give me a huge amount. The one time one of my female guppies looked like the typical heavily pregnant guppy with a lot of kids, she actually had dropsy. I attempted a c section the moment I saw she passed but the fry didn’t make it, they looked like the needed an extra week. My last female that gave birth looked identical to the one in the picture and she dropped only 9 fry.

Also no fry yet I’m starting to get really worried. She’s my broodmare, so to speak, always having the quickest deliveries with little signs of labor that I’ve noticed in the main tank. I don’t know if it’s because I have her isolated that I’m really noticing her behaviors or if something is wrong.

And the blue is so lovely! The lighting for those pictures was not the greatest too, when the light hits them just right it’s such a brilliant blue!

 

[j j m]

love the colour on her tail

 

[biofish]

Hey guys! So about a month ago a bred my first guppies that had been born and raised in my own tanks. These girls are about 8 months old. Are these healthy shapes for a pregnant guppy?? My previous store bought ladies never ever got such round tummies before when pregnant