Pregnant guppy?

TomandGerry

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Got this female guppy a few weeks ago. She is quite tiny still so I am not sure if she is pregnant or not?? Any help appreciated!
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Eeeekk! They can become gravid while quite young, if the breeder doesn't separate the males and females in time, but she really is tiny, very bloated, and other things can also cause bloating like that, like worms.

Where did you get her from? A store or another hobbyist? Do you worm your fish in quarantine or anything?
@emeraldking is the livebearer expert. :)
 
Eeeekk! They can become gravid while quite young, if the breeder doesn't separate the males and females in time, but she really is tiny, very bloated, and other things can also cause bloating like that, like worms.

Where did you get her from? A store or another hobbyist? Do you worm your fish in quarantine or anything?
@emeraldking is the livebearer expert. :)
my baby guppy's look like this sometimes i dint separate them is it bad not to separate them because i have a homemade guppy fry box.
 
my baby guppy's look like this sometimes i dint separate them is it bad not to separate them because i have a homemade guppy fry box.

Not doing anything terrible by not separating the young, you can't sex them until they're several weeks old and close to being able to breed anyway. Takes a while for the males gonopodium to develop, and sometimes you don't get all of the males out in time, and some females wind up becoming gravid while still very young. I didn't always manage to separate them by sex in time either. I prefer to separate them when I can- it's tough on a female of any species to carry and birth young, and when the female guppies wind up gravid when very young, they're still very small and not the big, chunky, ready to breed females you'd want them to be, ideally.

Just means when you buy female livebearers, there's a good chance that whoever bred them also didn't separate the sexes in time, and any female livebearer you get stands a good chance of having already been mated and is storing sperm packets.
However, livebearers from stores are often bred in huge fish farms abroad, very prone to arriving carrying a lot of diseases, including worms. So she might be gravid. Or she might be full of worms, and need worming. Have you seen white, stringy poop or any other signs of worms in her or any of your other fish? Any becoming skinny, lethargic, or bloated like this one? Any recent losses or other new fish added?
 
Not doing anything terrible by not separating the young, you can't sex them until they're several weeks old and close to being able to breed anyway. Takes a while for the males gonopodium to develop, and sometimes you don't get all of the males out in time, and some females wind up becoming gravid while still very young. I didn't always manage to separate them by sex in time either. I prefer to separate them when I can- it's tough on a female of any species to carry and birth young, and when the female guppies wind up gravid when very young, they're still very small and not the big, chunky, ready to breed females you'd want them to be, ideally.

Just means when you buy female livebearers, there's a good chance that whoever bred them also didn't separate the sexes in time, and any female livebearer you get stands a good chance of having already been mated and is storing sperm packets.
However, livebearers from stores are often bred in huge fish farms abroad, very prone to arriving carrying a lot of diseases, including worms. So she might be gravid. Or she might be full of worms, and need worming. Have you seen white, stringy poop or any other signs of worms in her or any of your other fish? Any becoming skinny, lethargic, or bloated like this one? Any recent losses or other new fish added?
yeah, i don't separate them do you think i should i normally just let them run free in the tank till i sell them. And I'm setting up a 20-gallon tub outside to breed dumbo ear guppy's i don't know if it will work but i really like them
 
yeah, i don't separate them do you think i should i normally just let them run free in the tank till i sell them. And I'm setting up a 20-gallon tub outside to breed dumbo ear guppy's i don't know if it will work but i really like them
I wouldn't worry about, maybe just warn the buyers that the females might come already prepared for babies perhaps! Lots of people colony breed and raise the young with the adults, it's fine! It's just that some people buy female guppies from a store or hobbyist, don't know about the females ability to store and use sperm even without a male around, and wonder where the fry came from, lol.

I'd like to try them in an outside tub one day. Most that I've seen have done really well, and love the dumbo eared ones. They're beautiful.
 
Technically, female guppies can already mate when they're about 6 weeks old. Fortunately, most young females are fast enough to swim away when a male tries to mate. But there are always young females that are naive and let a male do his way.
Yours look already gravid. But just give it some time and see if she's really pregnant or not.
 
I wouldn't worry about, maybe just warn the buyers that the females might come already prepared for babies perhaps! Lots of people colony breed and raise the young with the adults, it's fine! It's just that some people buy female guppies from a store or hobbyist, don't know about the females ability to store and use sperm even without a male around, and wonder where the fry came from, lol.

I'd like to try them in an outside tub one day. Most that I've seen have done really well, and love the dumbo eared ones. They're beautiful.
yeah, i can't wait to set up the tub I'm setting it up on the weekend the dumbo guppy's are such cool fish. And it's such a cheap set up you just got to by a cheap tub and sponge filter and pump.
 

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