When will my guppy give birth?

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Is it possible that when I did a gravel vac yesterday it disturbed the substrate and caused bad toxins to fly out/around the tank?
The tank always looks really cloudy after a gravel vac and the dust from the disturbance takes a while to settle.
 
Very sorry to hear that there were deaths.

Does your tap water have Chloramines added to it? And does your dechlorinator treat them and did you use (usually it is double dose) the correct amount. Sometimes the water department does algae treatments or sanitizes /disinfects the lines when work is done sometimes, or repairing a broken line. You can call and ask them too if any of that was done, or if chloramines have been added to the water.

Nitrite is suspect. Often there is additional feeding when there are babies and maybe there was a bit of the spike.
 
When did you setup the tank?
What stock had it before you added the guppy?? (anything else you added???)

Your bacteria should be in your filter, so vacuum cleaning did nothing bad.
And if the PH was the same, if you used something like Prime everything else should have been taken care of.

You also have a small tank which means toxins build up much faster.
A smal volume of water is always much more unstable than bigger tanks.
It is hard to say and honestly just speculation at this point.

I had it to, me first drop of fry, was only 7 and lost 3.
Found out No2 was at 0.3, and the weaker 3 paid the price.
Which was in a 20L tank like you have...
As I say, you don't know, they could be weaker, they could had a birth defect, they could have been sick, etc etc.

From now on I don't go bellow 10 gallon or 45 Liters.
Might put them in a 5 gallon to breed or to grow out.
But no more baby deliveries in small tanks for me.
(never lost a fry again, knocks on wood, yet)
While saying that, I do have a weaker one from me last drop to.
1 thin girl that doesn't seem to get bigger and is always swimming around.
Not just swimming, but swimming like she has to be somewhere, always.
Started yesterday taking her apart and feeding her extra.
Lets hope for the best...
 

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