Clamped Fins On Guppies

[niko001]

I have a 40 litre tank and lately I saw that most, if not all, of the guppies had clamped fins and rubbing against the surface. I suspected ICh but there were no signs of white spots. The next day I had three or four dead. I checked the water parameters, everything was according to a mature tank 0 - Ammonia and Nitrites and a bit over 20 for nitrates. I did a water change but to no avail. More deaths followed after some hours. I am lost and at this stage do not know waht to do

 

[IMCL85]

Do there body looks like paled/scale is like missing? If yes that they Probably have guppy disease . Thats what happen to me when I have them and all of them pass away with that disease. Try to find some medicine from ur local fish store and remove carbon etc for now. As I dont know where u live so I cant suggest u to use medicine I use before here in canada as they might not be available in ur country so just as ur LFS ppl for medicine that cure guppy disease.

 

[WILDER]

Clamped fins are a sign of stress, how many fish do you have in the tank, are they flicking and rubbing against objects, any laboured breathing, or red inflamed gills, any yellowish to rust coloured patches or spots on the fish, there in many parasites that fish can get apart from whitespot, have you used any household chemicals near the tank, introduced any new fish or live plants lately.

 

[niko001]

Do there body looks like paled/scale is like missing? If yes that they Probably have guppy disease . Thats what happen to me when I have them and all of them pass away with that disease. Try to find some medicine from ur local fish store and remove carbon etc for now. As I dont know where u live so I cant suggest u to use medicine I use before here in canada as they might not be available in ur country so just as ur LFS ppl for medicine that cure guppy disease.

Unfortunately, they all died and one curious thing is that they seem to had elonagted body but had shrunken before they died. I lost all my guppies in one go. I come from Malta (Europe) and most products availbale such as Tetra, Jungle, SERA, JBL, Seachem, Interpret are available. If it was guppy disease, what is called.

Clamped fins are a sign of stress, how many fish do you have in the tank, are they flicking and rubbing against objects, any laboured breathing, or red inflamed gills, any yellowish to rust coloured patches or spots on the fish, there in many parasites that fish can get apart from whitespot, have you used any household chemicals near the tank, introduced any new fish or live plants lately.

The tank was a grow out tank for the fry. There were 30 guppies in a 40 litre tank. They were three months old. The particular behaviour that I observed was:

clamped fins,
staying at one place near the surface,
shrunken body
elongated body (may be due to clamped fin which gave the appearance of the elongated shape)
laboured breathing
death with two days

I had not used any chemicals and water changes are done every week and since they pooed a lot I removed anything from the bottom on a daily basis. On a positive note, I had 6 Swordtail fry which survived this ordeal and had no similar behavioural signs. Although, they developed white spots during this week and are under treatment and seem to doing ok