is my guppy pregnant?

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Gingerlove05
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Just keep an eye on them :)
I have had fry get out of the breeding boxes before now. If you feed them crush/grind up some adult food to dust (if you dont have any baby foods). A pestle and mortar are handy ;)
I would avoid liquifry food with just the one fry as it can be messy (and would be really hard to dose for one fry), so i would either stick with powdered adult food or powdered fry food and only feed a tiny amount. You will also have to clean out any remaining food from the hatchery so it doesn’t foul the water :)
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I think a couple more might be expecting too!
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Guppies are gravid all the time. Females can store sperm, so as soon as they drop fry they go again. Every month.
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I basically read the title and went “probably”
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They can hold about 8 sperm sacs at a time, so they do literally drop hundreds from one session with a male.....
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