Pregnant guppy having trouble with birth?

[Kelly Preussner]

I have what appears to be a very pregnant guppy. We had 2 guppies that were pregnant & they were in a 10 gal tank. I also have a 20 gal tank so put all the males & other females in there. The 1 female had about 9 fry so I then moved her over to the 20 gal tank. I have this female in the 10 gal with all the baby fry. She doesn't try to eat any of the fry & she barely has moved in almost 24 hours. Her gravid spot is dark & actually looks a bit reddish. Today I thought she was having her fry but instead it looked like poop in a sack and it looks twisted. She has had this dangling & growing bigger for the past 2 hours. Any ideas?

 

[Ram419]

Just based on the pics, appears to be a fry stuck in the birth canal.

 

[Colin_T]

The dark stuff is just poop but the fish could have Camallanus thread worms. Section 3 of the following link tells you how to treat intestinal worms in fish.

What to do if your fish has Stringy White Poop.

Fish do a stringy white poop for several reasons. 1) Internal Bacterial Infections causes the fish to stop eating, swell up like a balloon, breath heavily at the surface or near a filter outlet, do stringy white poop, and die within 24-48 hours of showing these symptoms. This cannot normally be...

www.fishforums.net

 

[emeraldking]

Just waste. But it won't hurt to check on worms like Colin has already mentioned.