Hi, was just wondering if you could help me, are 3 of my 4 Guppies pregnant? The fourth has just given birth (Bought from shop pregnant) and had all her babies eaten before they could say hello to the world

Anyway, I've searched the forum for 'Pregnant Guppy' and the only useful thing was something about a gravel spot. Well, that's what I thought but I put one of my Guppy's in the (Newly Bought) breeding tank and for a few days and nothing happened, so she's been released, but depending on what you say might be recaptured.

I also have a large Golden Barb which I thought might be pregnant so she got put in but has been released also. Can someone inform me whether this fish is pregnant...or even female!!!

Medium Pregnant Blue


Heavily pregnant Yellow and Lightly Pregnant Blue


The Golden Barb

Your guppies could be pregnant, but to me don't look heavily pregnant.
I've had a lot of guppy births in my tank these past few months and they were huge, but it could be their first pregnancy, so they might have very few anyway,
All females will have a gravid spot, but when pregnant it will get darker and larger, from my experiences anyway.

The golden barb is an egglayer, so it would need a male to spawn with.

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get some pics from above

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Quite a hard picture to get...



From what I just saw on YouTube, they aren't pregnant...

If they are they have a while to go yet.

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If you think that's heavily pregnant you should see my bigbirther who has 6/7 fry every 23-26 days. She is huge, yours don't look gravid, but it could be early days..

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I wouldn't really rely on the so-called 'gravid spot', instead just look for a swollen belly. Females that have been kept with males can almost be given a guarantee that they'll reproduce; and even if the females are separated they can store sperm from the males and use it for several months.

Female Golden Barbs tend to be bigger and chunkier than males, and they tend to retain the full gold coloration whereas males develop a series of dark blotches down the flanks.

Yeah ive looked at pregnant guppies online now and mine look like nowt compared to them.

But I think they have got bigger since i got them.

What does the barb require to breed and/or lay eggs and hatch them successfully. Im not wanting to breed them but don't want them to do it and the fry be eaten again either...

If they do breed, which they probably wont, the eggs will be eaten before they hatch

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