is my platy pregnant or sick?

Addlewood

Addlewood

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my blue platy looks like she's developing a gravid spot and she is acting a little off today. I'm no expert so I'm just guessing that she is pregnant and because she looks a little too thin to be pregnant.
She doesn't have any clamped fin, eyes are clear, eats well and moves fine. I've only had her for about a week but I know how quick they can breed. I have moved her to quarantine because she looked like she was going into that birthing trance down towards the bottom of the tank next to a rock (safe zone for her?) and she did look like she was "pushing". All the other fish are perfectly fine and the blue platy only started doing this today.


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I've looked her over really close, she even let me hold her while still underwater. She looks just fine and her breathing just a little heavy but she is alone in the QT and I don't think that platys like to be alone. She is still laying on the bottom of the tank but she is well balanced and has swam a bit. I have found a little ich but only a couple vary small spots. I'm going to add salt to her tank and wait because I don't know what else to do.
 
I hope others with more experience will enter this thread. In the interim, I will just add the comments I posted in the older thread. This platy is sick, the clamped fins are indicative of this, plus the sitting on the substrate; neither condition wil occur in healthy fish. In the other thread you also mentioned white matter exuding from the anus, and I suggested that could indicate constipation or an intestinal bacteria or worms or similar.

Salt probably won't hurt, for livebearers, but not if soft water fish are present in this tank. Epsom salt is somethimes useful for constipation issues.

Byron.
 
she doesn't have a clamped fin but she doesn't put her dorsal fin out much though I have have seen it out once or twice when she moves fast.
 
Addlewood said:
she doesn't have a clamped fin but she doesn't put her dorsal fin out much though I have have seen it out once or twice when she moves fast.
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There may be a misunderstanding of terms. The fish in the photos, all three, has clamped fins, meaning fins held close to the body. This is never a good sign with livebearers. With other fish like catfish (corys, pleco), it is normal for the dorsal fin to collapse when the fish is motionless on a surface, but that is a very different thing.
 
Yes, I would say your platy is not doing well. I certainly don't think she is pregnant. I have a platy and it never has clamped fins. I can post a pic/vid later.

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She looks like she's doing better today. I saw her swimming slowly when I turned on the tank light and yesterday she would change sides of the tank, I would say maybe 2 times an hour but whichever side she was on she would would swim forward a bit and then slow down to drift back and won't be dragging herself on the bottom.
I saw say poop on the bottom of the tank yesterday and I haven't seen weird discharge from her anus sense then.

I have her tank bare of everything so if she gets through the week should I return her to the main tank?

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