AussieTimmeh
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Hello!
I have cause to be concerned, I think.
I have a four foot tank that has a variety of fish such as 5 black-finned silver sharks, a ghost knife, a clown loach, 2 phantom glass catfish, 2 coloured widows, 2 tiger barbs, 3 dalmation lyretail mollies, and 5 guppies, as well as 4 bristlenose catfish to keep it clean.
About two months ago, one of the Tiger Barbs got rather fat for no reason. He stopped being the most active fish in the tank and just hides most of the time. We thought he might have a digestive problem and tried epsom salts but nothing changed (after doing some research though, I am not sure I put enough in). In fact, he's still alive, still gets food during feeding time, but has remained fat. We decided to keep an eye on him, fearing the worst, but he kicks on.
Then very recently, a guppy got fat very suddenly and died, I'd say within two or three days. Then, a second guppy has now gotten fat, doesn't swim around like the other guppies, just sits at the top slowly moving around until its feeding time. He's been like this for about a week or two now. There as about a month or so between the two alive fish (the guppy and barb) getting fat.
Tank size: 200L (4 foot)
pH: 7.1
ammonia: er... need to get back to you on this one
nitrite: and this one
nitrate: and this one. The pet store indicated these seemed normal though.
kH: ah...
gH: not much help am I...
tank temp: I know this one! 29 degrees C
Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior): one of the guppies with a flame job on his tail has gotten fat, as well as one of the golden tiger barbs. Neither seem to look much different other than being fat and slow, no fins missing, no unusual scales that I can see.
Volume and Frequency of water changes: I change around 20% every week, maybe one week a month gets skipped.
Chemical Additives or Media in your tank: No chemicals, I have bio noodles and a bio sponge in an VIA Aqua 750 1200l/h canister filter.
Tank inhabitants: 5 black-finned silver sharks, a ghost knife, a clown loach, 2 phantom glass catfish, 2 coloured widows, 2 tiger barbs, 3 dalmation lyretail mollies, and 5 guppies, as well as 4 bristlenose catfish
Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration): The dalmation mollies are a recent addition but both these fish got fat before then.
Exposure to chemicals: None that I am aware of.
Food: I feed the fish tropical flakes and algae discs for the catfish. On the odd occasion I'll put some cucumber or zucchini in for the catfish though all the fish seem to eat it, except the guppies.
Tank Age: 6 months
Recent Events: Addition of mollies but again, this happened before they arrived. Nothing unusual when they got fat. Note that the barb got fat a good month before the guppy did.
Location: Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Digital photo (include if possible): As follows
To be honest, I don't even know how to tell the difference between a male and a female guppy.
Here is the sick one. Sorry if the photos are bad quality, still getting the hang of shooting them properly:
Here is one of the healthy guppies:
The guppy with the flame job on the tail is the sick one, pretty much just slowly cruises around on the surface all day.
The barbs were really hard to get photos of due to low light and them trying to hide so much, but I tried...
In both of the photos, the lower Golden Tiger Barb is the sick one, just fat and generally doesn't do much, but has been living like it for weeks so who knows.
I feel terrible when my fish die, I am keen to sort this out. Please help!
I have cause to be concerned, I think.
I have a four foot tank that has a variety of fish such as 5 black-finned silver sharks, a ghost knife, a clown loach, 2 phantom glass catfish, 2 coloured widows, 2 tiger barbs, 3 dalmation lyretail mollies, and 5 guppies, as well as 4 bristlenose catfish to keep it clean.
About two months ago, one of the Tiger Barbs got rather fat for no reason. He stopped being the most active fish in the tank and just hides most of the time. We thought he might have a digestive problem and tried epsom salts but nothing changed (after doing some research though, I am not sure I put enough in). In fact, he's still alive, still gets food during feeding time, but has remained fat. We decided to keep an eye on him, fearing the worst, but he kicks on.
Then very recently, a guppy got fat very suddenly and died, I'd say within two or three days. Then, a second guppy has now gotten fat, doesn't swim around like the other guppies, just sits at the top slowly moving around until its feeding time. He's been like this for about a week or two now. There as about a month or so between the two alive fish (the guppy and barb) getting fat.
Tank size: 200L (4 foot)
pH: 7.1
ammonia: er... need to get back to you on this one
nitrite: and this one
nitrate: and this one. The pet store indicated these seemed normal though.
kH: ah...
gH: not much help am I...
tank temp: I know this one! 29 degrees C
Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior): one of the guppies with a flame job on his tail has gotten fat, as well as one of the golden tiger barbs. Neither seem to look much different other than being fat and slow, no fins missing, no unusual scales that I can see.
Volume and Frequency of water changes: I change around 20% every week, maybe one week a month gets skipped.
Chemical Additives or Media in your tank: No chemicals, I have bio noodles and a bio sponge in an VIA Aqua 750 1200l/h canister filter.
Tank inhabitants: 5 black-finned silver sharks, a ghost knife, a clown loach, 2 phantom glass catfish, 2 coloured widows, 2 tiger barbs, 3 dalmation lyretail mollies, and 5 guppies, as well as 4 bristlenose catfish
Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration): The dalmation mollies are a recent addition but both these fish got fat before then.
Exposure to chemicals: None that I am aware of.
Food: I feed the fish tropical flakes and algae discs for the catfish. On the odd occasion I'll put some cucumber or zucchini in for the catfish though all the fish seem to eat it, except the guppies.
Tank Age: 6 months
Recent Events: Addition of mollies but again, this happened before they arrived. Nothing unusual when they got fat. Note that the barb got fat a good month before the guppy did.
Location: Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Digital photo (include if possible): As follows
To be honest, I don't even know how to tell the difference between a male and a female guppy.
Here is the sick one. Sorry if the photos are bad quality, still getting the hang of shooting them properly:
Here is one of the healthy guppies:
The guppy with the flame job on the tail is the sick one, pretty much just slowly cruises around on the surface all day.
The barbs were really hard to get photos of due to low light and them trying to hide so much, but I tried...
In both of the photos, the lower Golden Tiger Barb is the sick one, just fat and generally doesn't do much, but has been living like it for weeks so who knows.
I feel terrible when my fish die, I am keen to sort this out. Please help!
