Pregnant "male" guppies

[bud29]

I'm wondering, how common is it to have females in the "male guppy" tank at the fish store? Yesterday I went to look at fish and and identified 4 pregnant guppies in the male tank.

 

[Samzter]

Yes where I am there is 3-4 fish stores. 2 being pets at home and one being Maidenhead aquatics and the other a privitly owned. In the pets at home tanks they say that the Females have jumped over into the male tank every time I point it out. Maidenhead are really good and where I go they usually have the tanks separated by 2-3 tanks of different breeds of fish.

 

[bud29]

The jumping thing isn't a possibility for this situation as there is only a male guppy tank, they don't have a female tank.

 

[bettaowner]

Females might get mixed in if the breeder assumed it was a male and turned out to be a late blooming female.

 

[54seaweed]

human sorting is not always perfect so you have a 15% window for error , atleast
just think about the poor jerk that has to sit there sorting through thousands of tiny fish all day long !!!! what a job LMAO

 

[bettaowner]

That wouldn't bother me. Spending my whole day with fish. That's my dream.