targa66
Fish Fanatic
I found a very sick guppy in my small tank this AM (it's a 30L tank I keep cycled and use for quarantine, fry, etc.). There were two adult female guppies in this little tank plus about 8 fry . They've all been in there for about a month - I took them out of my main tank to give the females a break from endless breeding and the fry were born there.
Anyway, the sick one was lying on the bottom, swollen and pineconed this morning- she fluttered once in the early AM and that was it. Strange - she was eating yesterday and not swollen, but she has looked a bit thin, lethargic and droopy lately (as has the other adult female).
When I pulled her body out and examined her, her swollen belly looked very red and bruised (didn't see it before b/c she was lying on the gravel). Don't know if that was just some post-death internal haemmorhage?
Now I don't know if I should think about treating the others in the tank - all the fry seem fine but the other adult female also looks sort of weak and thin. There's no obvious signs of ich/velvet/anything else. All the water parameters are fine (no ammonia/nitrates, although pH is a bit high at 7.8).
I feed them ground up flake and the occasional drops of liquifry so that the fry are getting what they need. Could liquifry make an adult sick? I'm wondering if maybe the adults were just sort of old - I've only had them since May but have no way of knowing how old they were when I got them.
Is there some sort of precautionary treatment I should put in the tank, or is it better leaving well enough alone?
thanks.
(RIP!)
Anyway, the sick one was lying on the bottom, swollen and pineconed this morning- she fluttered once in the early AM and that was it. Strange - she was eating yesterday and not swollen, but she has looked a bit thin, lethargic and droopy lately (as has the other adult female).
When I pulled her body out and examined her, her swollen belly looked very red and bruised (didn't see it before b/c she was lying on the gravel). Don't know if that was just some post-death internal haemmorhage?
Now I don't know if I should think about treating the others in the tank - all the fry seem fine but the other adult female also looks sort of weak and thin. There's no obvious signs of ich/velvet/anything else. All the water parameters are fine (no ammonia/nitrates, although pH is a bit high at 7.8).
I feed them ground up flake and the occasional drops of liquifry so that the fry are getting what they need. Could liquifry make an adult sick? I'm wondering if maybe the adults were just sort of old - I've only had them since May but have no way of knowing how old they were when I got them.
Is there some sort of precautionary treatment I should put in the tank, or is it better leaving well enough alone?
thanks.
(RIP!)
