Pregnant guppy

Darkfalz

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Dec 9, 2007, 7:52:19 PM12/9/07

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How can I decide between very pregnant guppy and one with dropsy?
Pineconing?

T.J. Truchon

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Dec 9, 2007, 8:04:55 PM12/9/07

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Well thats a start. You can also usually see a darkening of the gravid spots when their pregnant.

On Dec 9, 2007 4:52 PM, Darkfalz <darkf...@gmail.com > wrote:

How can I decide between very pregnant guppy and one with dropsy?
Pineconing?

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Darkfalz

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Dec 9, 2007, 9:04:31 PM12/9/07

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I know they are all pregnant but my platys never got this fat looking
compared to tail area, but I know guppys have different body shaped.

On Dec 10, 12:04 pm, "T.J. Truchon" <caphe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well thats a start. You can also usually see a darkening of the gravid spots
> when their pregnant.
>

Mister Gardener

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Dec 10, 2007, 6:49:21 AM12/10/07

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Darkfalz wrote:

I know they are all pregnant but my platys never got this fat looking
compared to tail area, but I know guppys have different body shaped.

Female guppys are born with a "gravid spot" - it's a somewhat misleading term because they are not born "gravid." When they become pregnant, the dark gravid spot gets bigger, along with the size of the belly. A very heavily pregnant guppy will get a very fat belly, the skin around the gravid area will become stretched taut, sometimes the skin will become thin enough that you can actually see little eyeballs looking back at you. What we call "dropsy" is not a disease in itself, it is a symptom of internal organ failure, the fish fills up with extra fluid that its body can not process and get rid of. A common human equivalent of dropsy is the later stages of liver failure, the belly becomes tight as a drum. When a fish becomes this swollen with fluid, the taut skin may cause the scales to stick out, rather than lying flat against the body, giving the fish a "pine cone" appearance. If your fish is young, less than two years old, and is active and alert, it's probably pregnant. If the fish is older, and sluggish in its behavior, it may be experiencing failure of internal organs due to old age or bacterial infection.

MG

Darkfalz

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Dec 10, 2007, 4:24:31 PM12/10/07

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On Dec 10, 10:49 pm, Mister Gardener <mistergarde...@email.toast.net>
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They really go like ballons though, compared to my platy but my platy
only dropped 20 fry or so, I've seen these guppies have 40-50 fry.

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