Pregnant Female Guppies

[jua]

On the weekend I inherited a 60L tank with about 10-15 guppies M+F in it.
At least 2 are heavily pregnant although I think 1 gave birth last night as there were teeny weeny babies in the tank this morning. I managed to only rescue 1 !!

I have 2 questions:

1. I have managed to put 1 pregnant female into a breeding net thingy but I am worried that this may have been aborted

I read on here that this can happen if you move them at the wrong time and stress them out.

2. I think the one that gave birth is one of the larger females but the black spot has now disappeared, and the males seem to be harassing her

would they still 'look' pregnant but have a disappeared spot - which would indicate that they have given birth ?

 

[OldMan47]

Guppy females are almost always heavy but they do square off a bit shortly before dropping fry. By squaring off, we mean that the shape of the fish's belly will get squarish looking as if the fish had swallowed a small dice. From behind the gills, the belly will come almost straight down, then will run back flat and finally will rise sharply at the anal fin connection point. The color is something that I never notice because most of my livebearers have colored skin that you can't see through.

 

[GuppyGoddess]

Guppy females are almost always heavy but they do square off a bit shortly before dropping fry. By squaring off, we mean that the shape of the fish's belly will get squarish looking as if the fish had swallowed a small dice. From behind the gills, the belly will come almost straight down, then will run back flat and finally will rise sharply at the anal fin connection point. The color is something that I never notice because most of my livebearers have colored skin that you can't see through.

One of my guppies follows this "swollowed a dice look," but doesn't have a gravid spot. She's a light lemon color.

Another of my females doesn't look square at all but does have a gravid spot.

I found two fry in the tank the other day (one alive and the other sickly) and do not even know who the mom is because neither females has both tell-tale signs. . .

Jua - I'm not sure what happened with your guppies, but wouldn't worry too much. Just let nature take its course. Eventually you'll have lots of little fry to take care of