Female guppy seems sick but cant find with what... can someone help?

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Sorry i really dont have any good picture exept this one.

Anyway... It been more then one week that my most beautiful female guppy seems to have trouble swimming, even though i didnt buyed her like that. She gave birth only one time and had only been paired with one male (exept potantial male in her old pet shop ) that died after being almost 1 year old. I haven't seen her ate lately but she doesnt look skinny.... Her aquarium is set to 22°C and have a nice clean water. This is actualy the first tank i made ( im 13 years old ) and i was proud even if i didnt liked the coloured rocks.

I know i need more plants.and potantialy to check the PH but i cannot right now.... and i need the help of poeple that have more experience then me because i cannot find any illness on her fins of anywhere.... ^^"
 
Is she having trouble staying afloat and can't swim to the top of the tank easily like she could before if that's true it inicates a swim bladder problem. Fish have an organ they use to raise and lower their body in the water and it's called a swim bladder problem. Unfortunately it's not really treatable. I've had some gourami's get over it for a while then have it come back and do this for months while otheres just die after a day or two.

Is she swimming like a crazy fish all over the place? Then I would suspect a toxin in the water - but normally you'l start seeing it in other fish in the tank. Other than changing out about 70% of the water to dilute the poison I'm not sure what you can do.

So in any case do a large water change and see if that makes her feel better. Now when you pour water back in after removing 70% of the water pour it SLOWLY so as not to stress her out. She'll already be stressed by the water change but add the water back in out of her way. Now I have 6 CRAZY fish called DoJo's and they LOVE water changes and they love nothing more than a gallon of water being dropped on their head - they jump up in the air like they are champions but MOST fish don't like to be hit with so much water in their face.
 
Hi and welcome to the forum :)

Any idea what the ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels are in the tank?
How long have you had the fish?
How long has the tank been set up for?
Have you added anything to the tank in the last 2 weeks?
How often do you do water changes and how much do you change?
Do you gravel clean the substrate when you do a water change?
What sort of filter do you have?
How often and how do you clean the filter?

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If you can post a short video of her swimming it might help.
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Until we work out what is wrong, do the following.

Wipe the inside of the glass down with a clean fish sponge.

Do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day for a week. The water changes and gravel cleaning will reduce the number of disease organisms in the water and provide a cleaner environment for the fish to recover in.
Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it is added to the tank.

Clean the filter if it hasn't been done in the last 2 weeks. However, if the filter is less than 6 weeks old, do not clean it. Wash the filter materials/ media in a bucket of tank water and re-use them. Tip the bucket of dirty water on the garden/ lawn.

Increase surface turbulence/ aeration when using salt or medications because they reduce the dissolved oxygen in the water.

Add some salt, (see directions below).

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SALT
You can add rock salt (often sold as aquarium salt), sea salt or swimming pool salt to the aquarium at the dose rate of 1 heaped tablespoon per 20 litres of water. If there is no improvement after 48 hours you can double that dose rate so there is 2 heaped tablespoons of salt per 20 litres.

If you only have livebearers (guppies, platies, swordtails, mollies), goldfish or rainbowfish in the tank you can double that dose rate, so you would add 2 heaped tablespoons per 20 litres and if there is no improvement after 48 hours, then increase it so there is a total of 4 heaped tablespoons of salt per 20 litres.

Keep the salt level like this for at least 2 weeks but no longer than 4 weeks otherwise kidney damage can occur. Kidney damage is more likely to occur in fish from soft water (tetras, Corydoras, angelfish, gouramis, loaches) that are exposed to high levels of salt for an extended period of time, and is not an issue with livebearers, rainbowfish or other salt tolerant species.

The salt will not affect the beneficial filter bacteria but the higher dose rate (4 heaped tablespoons per 20 litres) will affect some plants and some snails. The lower dose rate will not affect fish, plants, shrimp or snails.

After you use salt and the fish have recovered, you do a 10% water change each day for a week using only fresh water that has been dechlorinated. Then do a 20% water change each day for a week. Then you can do bigger water changes after that. This dilutes the salt out of the tank slowly so it doesn't harm the fish.

If you do water changes while using salt, you need to treat the new water with salt before adding it to the tank. This will keep the salt level stable in the tank and minimise stress on the fish.
 
Is she having trouble staying afloat and can't swim to the top of the tank easily like she could before if that's true it inicates a swim bladder problem. Fish have an organ they use to raise and lower their body in the water and it's called a swim bladder problem. Unfortunately it's not really treatable. I've had some gourami's get over it for a while then have it come back and do this for months while otheres just die after a day or two.

Is she swimming like a crazy fish all over the place? Then I would suspect a toxin in the water - but normally you'l start seeing it in other fish in the tank. Other than changing out about 70% of the water to dilute the poison I'm not sure what you can do.

So in any case do a large water change and see if that makes her feel better. Now when you pour water back in after removing 70% of the water pour it SLOWLY so as not to stress her out. She'll already be stressed by the water change but add the water back in out of her way. Now I have 6 CRAZY fish called DoJo's and they LOVE water changes and they love nothing more than a gallon of water being dropped on their head - they jump up in the air like they are champions but MOST fish don't like to be hit with so much water in their face.
Thank you for your help!

But no she wasnt at the bottom she was always at the top, and one time i had a betta who had that problem and yea, maybe its what happened to her.

Buuuut when i woke up this morning..... she was dead.... im really sas i loved her so much... but thank you, ill watch all of that in the future and ill make PH test, ect!
 
If you ever lose a fish, do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day for a week. This will dilute any disease organisms that might be in the tank and helps reduce the chance of other fish dying.
 
oh no, I'm really sorry to hear that your fish died! You did your best by coming and asking us for help, and maybe there was nothing that could have been done to save this guppy. Don't be discouraged, everyone loses a fish sometimes.
 
If you ever lose a fish, do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day for a week. This will dilute any disease organisms that might be in the tank and helps reduce the chance of other fish dying.
I had a lot of loses of guppy (its really weird because my khuli loaches and my corydora are really good in it!) So do you thibk i should start the tank over? I would keep the same plants but change filtrer and the background rocks to take more natural color... ive been thinking this for a while now..... and im still hesitating...
 
Guppies are regularly infected with external protozoans, bacteria, gill flukes and intestinal worms. They should be quarantined in a separate tank for 4 weeks before being added to a display tank so they don't introduce diseases into the main tank. You can treat them with salt and dewormer while in quarantine and that usually prevents problems like this.

There is no need to take the tank apart, just do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day for a week. That will help clean things up.
Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it's added to the tank.

You can wipe the inside of the glass down and clean the filter too.
 
Guppies are regularly infected with external protozoans, bacteria, gill flukes and intestinal worms. They should be quarantined in a separate tank for 4 weeks before being added to a display tank so they don't introduce diseases into the main tank. You can treat them with salt and dewormer while in quarantine and that usually prevents problems like this.

There is no need to take the tank apart, just do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day for a week. That will help clean things up.
Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it's added to the tank.

You can wipe the inside of the glass down and clean the filter too.
Okay! Its just that i wasnt sure because i still got a lot of babies in there... basicly only that, two khuli loaches and a corydoras...
 

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