Let me start off by saying I have a few years of successful fishkeeping under my belt, so I'm not a noobie.
My tanks are all long term established or started with established media. I have rescued and brought many Ill fish from the local store back to health.
But my last batch of guppies has me stumped....
The tank has been established and running about a year and a half, it was my teenage sons tank that I had to rescue because he had it way overstocked and did not maintain it properly. The different types of fish were rehomed and recovering in great health now in my other tanks etc.
I had left the 2 platys and some snails in.
It's a 10 gallon, pool filter sand bottom, now heavily planted tank. I change 50% weekly.
Shortly after I got it, one of the platys who had been suffering a long time in the tank finally died. Symptoms appeared to be droopsy. He was at least a year old.
After several weeks of the other single platy that was left staying healthy but lonley I decided to add some fancy guppies. After the initial 2 week quarantine with only some fin rot spotted I dipped them all in methalyne blue and added them.
The day after the first dip one died.... And one every one to two weeks since...
There will be no symptoms at all... Perfectly healthy then overnight one dies...
I'm down from 8 guppys and 1 platy to 5 guppies and a platy. Keep in mind I was only buying 6 guppies but 2 babies were caught in the bag and the pet store left them in there because they couldn't get them out.
The fry has since grown astonishingly well in here. They are now almost adult size. The fin rot from the store has all healed and tails all grew back nicely.
All others seem great...
Ammonia 0 nitrites 0 nitrates are never over 20, temp 76.
Any ideas why I keep loosing them?
My tanks are all long term established or started with established media. I have rescued and brought many Ill fish from the local store back to health.
But my last batch of guppies has me stumped....
The tank has been established and running about a year and a half, it was my teenage sons tank that I had to rescue because he had it way overstocked and did not maintain it properly. The different types of fish were rehomed and recovering in great health now in my other tanks etc.
I had left the 2 platys and some snails in.
It's a 10 gallon, pool filter sand bottom, now heavily planted tank. I change 50% weekly.
Shortly after I got it, one of the platys who had been suffering a long time in the tank finally died. Symptoms appeared to be droopsy. He was at least a year old.
After several weeks of the other single platy that was left staying healthy but lonley I decided to add some fancy guppies. After the initial 2 week quarantine with only some fin rot spotted I dipped them all in methalyne blue and added them.
The day after the first dip one died.... And one every one to two weeks since...
There will be no symptoms at all... Perfectly healthy then overnight one dies...
I'm down from 8 guppys and 1 platy to 5 guppies and a platy. Keep in mind I was only buying 6 guppies but 2 babies were caught in the bag and the pet store left them in there because they couldn't get them out.
The fry has since grown astonishingly well in here. They are now almost adult size. The fin rot from the store has all healed and tails all grew back nicely.
All others seem great...
Ammonia 0 nitrites 0 nitrates are never over 20, temp 76.
Any ideas why I keep loosing them?
