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The telltale black spot or eye spot that appears on the flank of a pregnant livebreeder (swordtail, guppy, molly, platy) is actually the dark eyes of the embryos forming inside her. The black spot only disappears when the babies do, so she has either aborted (due to stress, the death of the majority of the embryos, trauma eg. being hit in the abdomen or some other unknown reason) or given birth to the brood, which are tiny and will hide in the gravel, in the plants, or on ornaments and can be very hard to see.

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