Guppy the Virgin Mary???

[cami]

This might have been covered here before, but I did a search and could not find it. My guppy (the same one I mentioned before who has had a stroke or something and is dying) had another batch of babies - for the second time in two months with no other fish in her tank! When I got her, she was pregnant and she had the babies and I managed to rescue most of them from her. But then a month later she had more and she ate them because I did not know she was pregnant again. Then today I was cleaning her little tank and there were about 10 dead babies in there, who were not there two days ago... I have never had this happen with my guppies before. Is this common???

 

[Gibbo]

Perhaps they can store the sperm within their bodies and use it when the time is right..

Welcome by the way, they're all a pretty cool, friendly bunch here!!

 

[Macquatic]

Hi cami, welcome to the forum. Guppies and other livebearers can store sperm for months internally, you can get quite a few broods from a female previously fertilised. Mac.

 

[cami]

Craziness! None of my previous guppies have pulled this trick on me. Good things humans can't do that, I think...

 

[slt]

hi there cami welcome , he he tis a good job humans can't do that

 

[Great Lakes]

True, some of our kind are bad enough with the current biological abilities.

 

[Gibbo]

As William S. Burroughs once said - 'Man is a bad Animal'!