Dead

[Morquinn]

All 35 of my livebearers have died, except for the gold twin bar platy... my 4 year old orange moon male has died as well.. the only thing I can think of is they started dying after adding two guppies to the tank, and they would die underneath rocks and it was just a big mess. I have since changed the tank completely and I am using sand now, which looks great. I have ended my live bearer journey and will now be adding gourami's to it. It was great while it lasted, but I knew if something like this did happen I would change species of fish. I will still be dropping by, you may see me around.
Thanks to anyone who has helped me in my livebearer hobby, Anastacia expecially.

 

[jakeyman_i_am]

Ouch, sorry to see you go!

Never did find out what happened huh?

 

[Morquinn]

I think that the two guppies I purchased the week before the deaths had something, a fungus or something. I noticed what looked like fungus, but couldnt tell very well on a current guppy I had, and it died an hour later. My Gold Twin bar was released into the new tank today, she seems to be doing great, just really lonely. Im not sure whether I will be keeping her in there if im thinking about different fish, guess it depends on what type I get. She's a trooper though, thats for sure.

 

[WILDER]

Sounds like you had a bad strain of columnaris it can wipe a tank out in hours.
http/article.discusnews.com/cat-02/columnaries.shtml

 

[galatea]

How sad....... How long have you had those fishes???

 

[Morquinn]

Most of them were about 2 years old, one was 4 years old.. and about 25 fry..
I went out and purchased 4 gouramis and two corys.. so now a new journey begins