Guppy prolapse or stuck fry?

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I was in the process of taking a video of my mystery snails having a play date when I noticed my thinnest guppy looking at first like she was giving birth.
Last one I would have suspected. One I’ve been waiting on and the other I suspected maybe but this little girl wasn’t on my radar as being pregnant. I’ve have these 3 females for about a month from the pet store pulled out of a coed tank.
Trying to get the best picture but it’s really hard through the water. It looks like eggs stuck but I am reading it could be a prolapse? Looking for thoughts on this. I don’t have a quarantine tank so right now she’s in a really big bowl.
Thank you for your advice!
 

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Guppies usually give birth to live young and the eggs are kept inside the body during development. If they are eggs, it's not good, and they do look like eggs with a stringy white poop.

Cross your fingers and hope for the best but it's probably bad.
 
She didn’t make it through the night. I believe they were eggs too but my inexperience turned me to Google and I couldn’t find anyone else who had a guppy with undeveloped eggs stuck like that.
Thank you for your response!
 
Unfortunately guppies are badly inbred nowadays and things like that are becoming much more common.

If you want to get a replacement fish, wait a month and let everything settle down before adding new fish.
 
Sorry, to hear about losing your guppy. But from those pics I just can't see what it exactly was. The pics are too blurry to me.
 

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