Worried about guppy birth

You mean they died? I don't know if you keep any other fish in the 10g. I have a 20g that is planted and I keep there 1 oto cat and one cory cat. I have two female guppies there and one male. I had eight fry close to two weeks ago and all are alive and growing fast. Added two small clown loaches last week to control the snail population. It looks that the other female is ready to give birth. In my case, I don't move any fish around. Planted tank helps and it doesn't look that the parents ate any of the fry. When I added the loaches, they were chasing the fry for a day or so, thinking it's food.

I think the key is planted tank, so the fry have places to hide. I'm not doing anything special and the fry are growing really fast.

Falcon

From what I can understand, you lost you fish to decease. Moving them won't help. How long have you been running this tank and how often do you change your water? I would think that your water parameters aren't ideal and that's why you're having your problems. How much are you feeding them? I feed mine, twice a day and it's very little and they consume most of the food at the top, before it falls down. I crush my flakes so they're smaller. I feed flakes in the morning and dried brine shrimp in the evening(I crush the shrimp too). The shrimp is really good for the fry as it's very small and the fry can eat it almost imediatelly. They always appear to be hungry. Once a week or every two weeks, they will get a taste of frozen blood worms and brine shrimp.

Spunke, give more details as to why your fish and fry died before. How are your fish doing now, after treating with medicine. If they're better, you can do 50% water changes every other day to remove medicine. If the fry came now, they would most likely die from the medicine in the tank. It would be better to move the mother, provided the other tank is established/cycled.

Ammonia and nitrite are very low so it shouldn't be a problem. Cloudy water, this is a bit puzzling. If I didn't see your tests, I would say that ammonia/nitrite were high. Could be that your nitrate is high. Not sure if it would cloud the water. Did you replace any of your filter sponges or anything like that lately. Without knowing, I would say that you replaced all your sponges to new ones and your tank is going through cycling again.

Looks like you're doing ok on water changes. Myabe I would step up the water changes. Keep in mind that it would wash out your meds so either you would have to re-apply or stop alltogether. Never treated my fish for tail rot so not sure

Let me know.

You can take a chance and stop the treatment and do 50% water changes every other day to get rid of medicine. It's up to you. But one thing is for sure, medicine won't do fry any good.

hhmm that sounds almost as odd as mine. Was the first female a new guppy you got or is it one you've had? It could possibly be that the female was sick already before you got it, if it is new, and the fry went with along with the sickness.

For mine, I bought a pair of guppies. The mother was already prego, before I bought them. A day after the birth the mother died, and a day after that the male died. Odd thing is all (well 17/22) the fry made it and are growing great.

How are you fish doing in the tank now? You stated that after that death you also had two males die. You may have to clean out the tank very well before you put in other fish.

As far as moving both the mother and the fry or just the fry, I don't think it would matter too much as long as the tank has been well cycled and the water is clean. I do know however that giving birth can be very stressful to the mother so if you move her it may give her added stress and cause death. If you decide to move her try to move her as soon as possible and keep her in the tank she gave birth in for at least 3-5 days so she can recuperate. It's been my exp. that they won't eat their fry, at least I've never seen it done.

When my guppies give birth I don't change the water for at least a week because I fear that the potential ph, amonia, etc. change will kill them. It is very well filtered tho. I don't know maybe I'm just gettin lucky but I've not seen much of a lost to any of my fry, and now have another batch coming in (6 new fry a few days ago and 10 today).