Guppy is swimming vertically

newtosnails

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Jun 13, 2006
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Well, my guppy was looking much better today. Up and moving more and appeared to be swimming normally again. (had the tank disaster yesterday which made me do a total water change and clean out the entire tank, he seemed stressed for most of yesterday. I did get him to eat last night and he seemed to improve) He was also still eating today.

This evening I noticed he is now mostly hovering in one spot - vertically. He is still moving, but not much at all. And I've never seen a fish smin vertically! What is this fish doing? When I did a search online about it, some sites said possibly pregnancy. I have no idea if our fish is male or female! How am I supposed to tell? And what could be going on with our poor fish?

If he/she is still acting funny tomorrow I plan on taking some of water into our LFS for testing. Maybe that will clear something up for us and we'll know what to do. I'm getting attached to this little guy and I just don't want to see him die.
 
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