Sam Livingston

I have bred platies for over a year and have had many, many batches, but for the first time to my knowledge I am having stillborn egg sacks. She is about 2 years old and has given birth 5 times while I've had her. Can I expect any live babies out of this batch or are they most likely all going to be all still born. Just today she dropped about 10 of the unborn fry sacs. I's important to know because if she will have no live fry I need to move her into one of the main tanks and replace her with another pregnant one. I have 3 nursery tanks, and about 11-12 pregnant platies/guppies so the room in each tank has a line behind it. I would like to move another pregnant fish in there if she is not going to give live birth.

COBettaCouple

It could be that she's gotten old and has trouble producing viable fry.

fishgirl

She may be stressed due to age.

Sam Livingston

Sorry so late, my computer hard drive went down. Yeah I think both are great answers, I was thinking that myself because the 3 main ones that are huge (always huge, just plain fat now) are 2 2-year platies, and 1 2-year old guppy and none have given birth yet. The guppy did give birth about 2 months ago, but the platies havn't given birth for a while and they both used to all the time. I still have the 3 isolated on by themselves but yeah I think their age is getting to them when comes to birth.