Hi Guys
My tank:
55 gallon.
25 degrees celcius
zero ammonia, zero nitrites, between 5-15 nitrates usually. Between 15-25% water change weekly. pH- 7.0.
Had it for 12 months. Contains (please don't yell at me): 1 Angelfish, 5 gouramis, 6 platies, 2 guppies, 3 yellow rams, 8 rummynose tetras, 7 neon tetras, 8 harlequin rasboras, 2 flying fox, 8 zebra danios.
70% real plants 30% plastic, quite heavily planted.
Story background:
Approx 2-3 months ago, a guppy developed a very large bulbous growth. Assumed it was dropsy, asked fish tank guy how to treat it he told me: "Dropsy? don't be stupid that's really rare. Your fish doesn't have dropsy it's just fat. Go home." Rightoh....i bought it a quarantine tank just in case....died a week later.
Few weeks later, my favourite platy was stuck on floor of tank, gasping for air. Moved it into quarantine tank, where she sat on bottom of tank for a week slowly starving to death. Went to another fish shop they said "you can't do anything, and it's not contagious as long as you get the fish out before it dies so don't worry it won't spread"
A week later, yellow/gold ram developed pine cone appearance and looked bloated. Waited a day or so, it couldn't swim well, I pulled it out, euthanised it.
Same thing happened with another platy a week later, and tonight, similar thing happened with a zebra danio.
Questions I have:
a) is dropsy contagious?
b) is is even dropsy? is it something else? surely lack of being able to swim and raised pine-cone-scales are a dead giveaway?
c) is it wierd it is affecting so many different types of fish and only 1 of each?
d) am i nuts? I'm starting to think I have Munchousen's syndome by proxy.
My tank:
55 gallon.
25 degrees celcius
zero ammonia, zero nitrites, between 5-15 nitrates usually. Between 15-25% water change weekly. pH- 7.0.
Had it for 12 months. Contains (please don't yell at me): 1 Angelfish, 5 gouramis, 6 platies, 2 guppies, 3 yellow rams, 8 rummynose tetras, 7 neon tetras, 8 harlequin rasboras, 2 flying fox, 8 zebra danios.
70% real plants 30% plastic, quite heavily planted.
Story background:
Approx 2-3 months ago, a guppy developed a very large bulbous growth. Assumed it was dropsy, asked fish tank guy how to treat it he told me: "Dropsy? don't be stupid that's really rare. Your fish doesn't have dropsy it's just fat. Go home." Rightoh....i bought it a quarantine tank just in case....died a week later.
Few weeks later, my favourite platy was stuck on floor of tank, gasping for air. Moved it into quarantine tank, where she sat on bottom of tank for a week slowly starving to death. Went to another fish shop they said "you can't do anything, and it's not contagious as long as you get the fish out before it dies so don't worry it won't spread"
A week later, yellow/gold ram developed pine cone appearance and looked bloated. Waited a day or so, it couldn't swim well, I pulled it out, euthanised it.
Same thing happened with another platy a week later, and tonight, similar thing happened with a zebra danio.
Questions I have:
a) is dropsy contagious?
b) is is even dropsy? is it something else? surely lack of being able to swim and raised pine-cone-scales are a dead giveaway?
c) is it wierd it is affecting so many different types of fish and only 1 of each?
d) am i nuts? I'm starting to think I have Munchousen's syndome by proxy.
