Is My Molly/guppy Pregnant?

I am new to tropical fish forum and also new to keeping fish at home....
Recently been very much interested in knowing the breeding pattern for my livebearers...
I am attaching some pictures of my black molly and 2 guppies...
Please tell me if they are pregnant.if yes, then how long for them to give birth.
Also what are the common symptoms of them being pregnant and giving bith?

Hi, welcome to the forum.

Your Black molly looks roughly 3 weeks pregnant, same with guppy, the third pic is to small i cant see properly.
When taking pics its always good to get a overhead view as well , the width of the fish also helps to determine how far on it is.

Here is a link to an article i wrote on this forum, about all the info u need to know
Click here to visit article

thanks a lot....
so how many weeks does her pregnancy last?
read she gives births every 28 days.......

so is only one more week to go.....???

with the guppy...sometimes her gravid spot seems very dark but sometimes it becomes red in color..what does this mean?
i have left a male with the guppy and its been chasing her a lot....should i remove him?

with molly i can see the white circle around her anal opening?

Mollies can drop fry every 4-6 weeks, but on average my mollies use to be around the 4-5 week area.
Dont worry about the gravid spot, its not a good indication of a guppy been heavy pregnant so dont judge by this.
As for the colour of the gravid spot, Lighting affects it, for example, turn out your fish tank light when the gravid spot is very dark, leave the lights out for a few hours and turn it back on and u will notice the gravid spot is very light (like a redish grey colour!

A male will always harras a female, so thats why its best to ratio them out, have 3 females to every 1 male, this way the harrasment is spread out between the 3 causing less stress on each female.

Hope this helps.

Any more questions please feel free to ask

Welcome to our forum newtofishkeeping9.
I am afraid that your present pictures are not detailed enough to properly determine the time to a fry drop. I see that 5tyeady has given you his own estimate which may possibly be close enough. If you can give a better picture of your fish, we may well be able to do better with an estimate of the drop. In the meantime, I have a link to a thread, in my signature area, that follows one of my mollies from one drop to the next along with commentary. It is called My Molly's progress in that area.

still no sign of my molly and guppy giving birth?
sometimes they are hanging around the filter but sometime moving happily around.
how do I know when will they give birth?

Can you upload some more pics? try and get close up shots

my guppy gave 6 fries on sunday and molly gave 4 fries last night....but sadly she died this morning?
is there any specific reason? coz even our previous molly died after giving birth ?
but the guppy is fine .is there any special care needed for molly?

Loss of a female is almost unheard of for me. I find that a recently delivered female is almost always in demand if I have kept her with males. For some reason the males seem to correctly sense that she is fertile and they follow their instinct to mate with a fertile female and thus pass on their genes.
I have no idea how that works with other animals, nor even humans, but passing along genes seems to dominate fish interactions. If you look at almost any situation and simply ask the question as if you were the fish, will this action improve the chances of passing along my genes, you will be able to answer what a fish can be expected to do. For some reason fish seem to correctly respond in a manner most likely to pass along their genetic composition while we "superior" animals, humans, fail that same test in our own relationships.