nirbhao
Aquarium Advice Addict
This is Sunny
It looks to me like she is desperately attempting to give birth and having no success. She sets herself up vertically against a hard surface. She'll gasp, stick out both ventral fins stiff as boards, and do a little shimmy. Sometimes it looks like there might be something coming out. Then she'll:-/ zip around the tank erratically.
She eats and poops like a champ. In fact, she takes breaks between these gasps to clear out her bowels. So much poop!
It's a 10 gallon aquarium with an AquaClear 20. Temperature is 78, pH is 7.8, ammonia 0, nitrates 0, nitrates 10. Some live plants. Her tankmates include her daughter from her last brood and four nerite snails.
She dropped her last brood mid August. She's had episodes like this twice before- once in September and again in October. Sometimes it looks like there's a little clear bead coming out, but it never comes all the way out.
I know guppies can hold, but this seems different. Every time I ask people say to let things work out, but this doesn't seem to be working itself out.
Please help.
It looks to me like she is desperately attempting to give birth and having no success. She sets herself up vertically against a hard surface. She'll gasp, stick out both ventral fins stiff as boards, and do a little shimmy. Sometimes it looks like there might be something coming out. Then she'll:-/ zip around the tank erratically.
She eats and poops like a champ. In fact, she takes breaks between these gasps to clear out her bowels. So much poop!
It's a 10 gallon aquarium with an AquaClear 20. Temperature is 78, pH is 7.8, ammonia 0, nitrates 0, nitrates 10. Some live plants. Her tankmates include her daughter from her last brood and four nerite snails.
She dropped her last brood mid August. She's had episodes like this twice before- once in September and again in October. Sometimes it looks like there's a little clear bead coming out, but it never comes all the way out.
I know guppies can hold, but this seems different. Every time I ask people say to let things work out, but this doesn't seem to be working itself out.
Please help.