deadly guppy sickness

[cro]

First at all, hello. I'm new here and hope you coud help me and my fish.
Second, I thrully hope you can understand me, 'cose my language is not well, and my spelling is . Sorry.

And now the problem:

For the past two years I have tropical aquarium, so you can drop aut anny "very begginers" mistakes.

Water parametrs are great!

It started with guppies, a month ago, but today I see white molly and platy are sick as well!

I tried solt bath, cure against parasites and bacterais. After many wictoms and many, many days I tought they are well and I put them out of the carantena into completly new water. A few days ago it started again, but now it's spreding all over. I've got few aquariums with guppie-kids, please help me not to lose all of them, it would be disaster for me and them.

I do not know is that parasit, bacteria, or what?

 

[Grey Legion]

"I put them out of the carantena into completly new water"

I don't know the real answer but taking a fish out of a established tank and dropping them in new water is not really a good idea and maybe it helped killing a few due to the added stress on the Guppies.

Small daily water changes are always a good Idea...

hope things get better for you

 

[black angel]

whats a carantena?
how many gallons does it hold and could you post what you got for ammonia,nitrite,nitrate and the ph.

 

[dwarfgourami]

Can you tell us more about how your fish are sick? Any symptoms? Can you see anything unusual?

 

[cro]

I change water frequently, Kh is 8, Ph is 8 amoniak 0... As I said, all paramerars are good. (maybe Ph is not ideal, but it is allways so and there was no fish (and I have 24 aqariums) with such simptoms, except guppies. I have planty of little-ones and I'm scared for them.

Carantena is qurantine. I've warned you abaut my spelling

please belive me, it is some desease, why just guppies? All the others fishes are fine (except molly and platy who lived thre when desease begone. I didn't remove them so they couldn't spread desease. )

In every aquarium, every guppy get sick, most of them are dead by now, all other fish are fine. Molly and Platy were fine all this time.

 

[cro]

Can you tell us more about how your fish are sick? Any symptoms? Can you see anything unusual?

No spots, dust or anny other standard-simptoms. Tail get glued (like in glue, I do not know is that good word)

Than I realise guppy is very tinny and small, he remane laying on the floor and finaly dies.

All this in 2-3 days.

Interesting is that, the other fishes look at this time healthy, then in 2,3 days they get sick, too. One by one...

 

[black angel]

have you treated for internal parasites yet?
what does the poo look like. is it normal,being thick and brown or stringy and white?
many internal bacteria have wasting as a symptom and are very hard to diagnose. wasting away can also be a sign of fish tb and is catching between fish.

try here too
http/www.solodvds.com/guppy_disease.asp

 

[cro]

what does the poo look like. is it normal,being thick and brown or stringy and white?

Cuold you translate it to me?
I do not know what is poo, I can't find in dictionary

thick and stringy I've found.

 

[cro]

Now I get it! I was thinking, which part of the body could have such carackeristics, only, poo is no part of the body? Is it s-h-i-t? I am sorry abaut a bad language, but it is only word I know for this "fenomena")

White and stringy.

Someone writed "TB". Is that tuberculosa? If it is, I'm in panic, 'cose I've been told it is desease that can be broaght to peopole!! I've seen pictures of human hand vith lots of bloody places.

Now, for the a first time, I take one fish and brought it into the daylight and saw 2 or 3 red spots on body and tail. But they were so tinny, maybe I was mistaken?

 

[Tolak]

What is the name of the medications you treated them with? Also, where are you located? Some medications are not available in different areas.

Tolak

 

[sylvia]

If the poo (yes it is #### ) is white and stringy, the problem is probably an itnernal parasite so treat for that. The fact that only the guppies have it seems strange though. How old are they and did you get all of them at the same time from the same place? TB is tuberculosis but it is difficult for it to infect people and even if it does, just go to your doctor and explain - it is easy to treat in humans. Also, I doubt it is TB. Livebearers such as guppies, platies and mollies only rarely get TB and I would expect them to take a lot longer to die and they would likely have a bent spine in the later stages as well (though not always).

 

[black angel]

i think it could be a disease called costia which is shown by red spots starting around the head and then spreading back on the body.

need someone else to say if this may be the case as treatment is harsh.
can you get aquarium salt?

 

[WILDER]

Red spots can be bacterial and if they do have internal parsites which is common in livebearers, then you can have bacteria problems with them as well.

 

[dwarfgourami]

If it is tuberculosis, the fish can give it to you, but it won't be human tuberculosis; fish TB is different. Humans get an infection from fish TB which can be treated by antibiotics. So don't get too frightened.

 

[cro]

Oh, God! Every word in my language is written as it is spoken. So I can't imagine what difficultis does it to you when I write something wrong. For example, I write carantena and solt and you didn't understood I mean quarantine and salt. How you can understand me at all?

Back to my problem: I am in Croatia, Europe. Here we have Serra and Tetra and few others not so big firms with food and medics. Serra and tetra are good and most of us in Croatia are using it.

I've tried all, against bacteria, parasites, salt... I would try to found some cure against internal parasites and I will informe you resultates

'Till than, thank you all, you are very kind and helpfull.

P.S. I would give anything to be on your side to feel it when you reed my posts