My female guppy's having trouble giving birth

[circe]

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I just bought 4 new female guppies yesterday, and one of them is having a drop. She's got a baby stuck in her, and she's having problems pushing it out. She's been in labor for about 7 or 8 hours. Is there anything I can do?

 

[Virtuoso2K12]

1:Let nature take its course and 2: Get something soft and thin to help it out,but i wouldn't do that.i seen someone get eggs out of a goldfish by hand before.

 

[jm1212]

getting eggs out of a goldfish and getting a fry out of a guppy are two totally different entities. many breeders that are trying to strengthen strains will extract eggs from female goldfish.

you can try to remove the fry with a pair of tweezers, but you will probably lose the fry and stress out the mother.

 

[paperdragon]

How long has the fry been stuck? It's fairly normal for them to be stuck for 10-15 minutes, but if it's several hours I'd be worried. As for labor itself, it can sometimes take about 20 hrs for them to drop all of the fry.

 

[circe]

He started poking out like, maybe 2 hours ago... He's been just kinda barely stuck out... I'm pretty sure it's one of the fry.