I am completely new to this board, but found it while trying to help out my sickly fish ( who I thought was a molly, but I now know to be a guppy 
)
so here are the basics:
1. I have no idea of the water parameters atm. I had been bringing samples to the pet store, and they don’t really tell me the specifics, just suggest solutions. I’ll be getting a test kit soon though, since its way past due.
2. The guppy has been bloated for several weeks. It now has raised scales.
3. The last water change was about a month or so ago, about 25%.
4. Just aquasafe water conditioner and occasionally algae destroyer tablets. I added kanacyn the other day which is part of my question..
5. I don’t really know the specfics of all of them, some I got sometime ago, I sorta just picked whatever was cool looking and a community fish.
Theres:
1 gourami
1 shark
3 ghost fish,
3 red eyed tetras
1 yellow guppy(the sick one)
1 leopard tail guppy
1 tiny red tetra,
1 small yellow fish with green spots
1 tiger barb
2 snails
6. 30 gallon tank
7. No new fish since around December
To make a long story kinda shorter, the yellow guppy has been bloated a long time. Several weeks at least. I thought it might be pregnant, and I thought it was something that might go away as the leopard guppy was once bloated a few days then it went away without any treatment.
A few days ago I noticed its fins were starting to deteriorate.
I then went to the pet store explained it all to them and they suggested Kanacyn.
Since the kanacyn is bad for snails, and I didnt know how to figure out how much of each pill to give the guppy if I put it in a small bowl by itself (since the pills are in ten gallon doses), I rigged a glass bowl up with wire to float in the big tank and put the snails in it, and put the kanacyn in the big tank.
Well later on the other guppy started fighting with the sick one a lot and I decided to take it out and put it with the snails in the small bowl so it wouldn’t get more stressed out. So now I’m realizing I should have just seperated the sick one to begin with and figured out how much medicine to give it.
I read that new carbon would clear out the kanacyn, so I got a new carbon and put it in the filter a couple hours ago. I am wondering how long it needs to run before I can safely put the snails back in the main tank? And then, is there any suggestions on how to figure out how much kanacyn to give the guppy in the small bowl? (It’s the kind of regular glass bowl you would put one betta fish in)
OR am I completely on the wrong track altogether and there is something else I should try?
Any and all suggestions would be hugely appreciated. From what I’ve read it sounds like dropsy, ( i just noticed the raised scales today) which sounds like the outcome isn’t usually good, but id like to give it the best shot I can.
Oh to clarify - I put 3 kanacyn tablets in on Thursday evening, did not dose it yesterday as it said to do it every other day, and wanted I to give it to the guppy alone today to keep it on track with the 5 day cycle.
Thanks again !!
)so here are the basics:
1. I have no idea of the water parameters atm. I had been bringing samples to the pet store, and they don’t really tell me the specifics, just suggest solutions. I’ll be getting a test kit soon though, since its way past due.
2. The guppy has been bloated for several weeks. It now has raised scales.
3. The last water change was about a month or so ago, about 25%.
4. Just aquasafe water conditioner and occasionally algae destroyer tablets. I added kanacyn the other day which is part of my question..
5. I don’t really know the specfics of all of them, some I got sometime ago, I sorta just picked whatever was cool looking and a community fish.
Theres:
1 gourami
1 shark
3 ghost fish,
3 red eyed tetras
1 yellow guppy(the sick one)
1 leopard tail guppy
1 tiny red tetra,
1 small yellow fish with green spots
1 tiger barb
2 snails
6. 30 gallon tank
7. No new fish since around December
To make a long story kinda shorter, the yellow guppy has been bloated a long time. Several weeks at least. I thought it might be pregnant, and I thought it was something that might go away as the leopard guppy was once bloated a few days then it went away without any treatment.
A few days ago I noticed its fins were starting to deteriorate.
I then went to the pet store explained it all to them and they suggested Kanacyn.
Since the kanacyn is bad for snails, and I didnt know how to figure out how much of each pill to give the guppy if I put it in a small bowl by itself (since the pills are in ten gallon doses), I rigged a glass bowl up with wire to float in the big tank and put the snails in it, and put the kanacyn in the big tank.
Well later on the other guppy started fighting with the sick one a lot and I decided to take it out and put it with the snails in the small bowl so it wouldn’t get more stressed out. So now I’m realizing I should have just seperated the sick one to begin with and figured out how much medicine to give it.
I read that new carbon would clear out the kanacyn, so I got a new carbon and put it in the filter a couple hours ago. I am wondering how long it needs to run before I can safely put the snails back in the main tank? And then, is there any suggestions on how to figure out how much kanacyn to give the guppy in the small bowl? (It’s the kind of regular glass bowl you would put one betta fish in)
OR am I completely on the wrong track altogether and there is something else I should try?
Any and all suggestions would be hugely appreciated. From what I’ve read it sounds like dropsy, ( i just noticed the raised scales today) which sounds like the outcome isn’t usually good, but id like to give it the best shot I can.
Oh to clarify - I put 3 kanacyn tablets in on Thursday evening, did not dose it yesterday as it said to do it every other day, and wanted I to give it to the guppy alone today to keep it on track with the 5 day cycle.
Thanks again !!
