Dead Guppies

[Andypalf]

It's not a happy time in my tank. One of my Amano shrimp died mysteriously two days ago. And stranger things are happening.
Last night I noticed one my male guppies in a very bad way. I think he must have got caught inthe filter. His tail was shredded and the skin taken off the last 1/3 of his body. He was still alive so I popped him into a breeding hatch so that I could get some food to his mouth and give him some peace. But this morning he was dead.
The second guppy is a mystery to me. One of my females was dead this morning. her mouth looked like she smashed into the glass possibley, but not so bad that she wouldn't be able to feed. So I'm not too sure as to why she passed away.

Don't suppose you guys have any explanations so that I avoid this in the future. also in the tank I have one remaining amano shrimp, 3 yellowtail rasboras, 4 other guppies and 2 young ancistrus. So I don't think that they were attacked.

Cheers

 

[archamfr]

was her mouth sorta.. raggedy and such?
theres a type of rot, not sure if finrot can spread, that can basicly decompose the mouth.
finrot may explain the male guppy he may have had finrot,would explain the tail but not the body

best bet is to keep an eye on the tank, do a large water change and post back if anything else happens

 

[Andypalf]

It didn't look like rot on the female. The fish do get quite skittish when I start peering in at them, I'm pretty confident that she swam into the glass too fast. But how this resulted in her death I'm not sure.
As for the male, it's become apparent that he got caught in the filter (Fluval 3). The next day I came home to find another male half in/half out of the filter. I switched it off straight away and he came free easily and he didn't look too badly damaged. So I popped him into my breeding hatch for some peace and to guarantee the he got some food. But come the next morning he also had passed away.
So I'm currently figuring out how to avoid this as they do like to swim around the filter.

but the last week since all this happened has been good in the tank. All the fish are very active and eating well. So fingers crossed this unlucky patch ahs passed.

 

[modaz]

It didn't look like rot on the female. The fish do get quite skittish when I start peering in at them, I'm pretty confident that she swam into the glass too fast. But how this resulted in her death I'm not sure.
As for the male, it's become apparent that he got caught in the filter (Fluval 3). The next day I came home to find another male half in/half out of the filter. I switched it off straight away and he came free easily and he didn't look too badly damaged. So I popped him into my breeding hatch for some peace and to guarantee the he got some food. But come the next morning he also had passed away.
So I'm currently figuring out how to avoid this as they do like to swim around the filter.

but the last week since all this happened has been good in the tank. All the fish are very active and eating well. So fingers crossed this unlucky patch ahs passed.

get a fish net about an 8 inch rimmed one and cut the net off the handle, put it over your filter and secure with a rubber band, ive had to do this for the same reason and it works great and saves you buying a particular filter and buying new fish too

 

[community begginer]

or you could use a bit of stocking.
good luck