Fish Are Bending Then Dying Please Help.

[lexi93xo]

hiya guys, new to the forum, i have a tropical tank set up thats been set up for about three years now, it has a plec, mollies, platties, guppes and a born sucker. when i first had the guppies they were dying pretty quick, now i have lost all my yellow mollies due to them going really thin then bent and dying a few days after, my female platties are now going thin and bent, and i presume they will die in a few days which is so sad, my female dolmation mollie is the same, im really not sure whats causing this i have lost about 5-6 fish from it, i had my water tested at the start of the week and it was fine, im hoping to go to the pet shop tomorrow to get it tested again to be on the safe side, if anyone can help me with this i would be more than grateful, thank you.

 

[bluesword23516]

Do you see any signs of disease or parasites? What color is their poo? Do you know when your last water change was? 
 
Oh, and also ask them to write down the water test, meaning each individual element that is tested.

 

[lexi93xo]

no signs of anything like that, poo's brown i think, my last water change was wednesday and i treated it with tap safe, my junior fry did have white spot so i am treating that, but thats recent i didnt have it when they were dying, and i will get them to do that

 

[Stimo]

i recommend purchasing a test kit and not the strip ones they do so you can monitor your tank a lot more closely.
 
you say your last water change was wednesday but what is your schedule every week?

 

[lexi93xo]

they dont do the strips its the bottle ones and i do a water change every wednesday

 

[Lillefishy]

How long have you had the fish? Livebearers do tend to take on a bent appearance & lose weight when they're coming to the end of their lives.
Their lifespan is only around 2 years so it could be just a case of them coming to a natural end

 

[lexi93xo]

i havent had my blue platties long or the yellow mollies, but not sure how old they were when i had them this is the thing, ive lost5-6 fish from being bent so just wanted to know if it was a disease or anything but i did read up and it said on net about doing that when they are old

 

[Lillefishy]

Something I've just noticed in one of your pcs though it may not be anything to do with the fish dying, is that a bottle of perfume by the tank?
Sprays of any sort shouldn't be used anywhere near the tank or even in the room especially if you have an air pump running as the fumes can be toxic to fish.

 

[lexi93xo]

my partner put it there friday, annd really? i never knew this, how do i add another pic on my post?

 

[majerah1]

Which way are they bending? I had a female macrostoma who would bend like a U and she wasted away rather fast. I fed medication laced food to the male to clean his system out and he is still with me. I believe it was internal parasites. 
 
What I did was took a quarter teaspoon of Metro+ and mix with three teaspoons of tank water. Then I soaked a frozen brine shrimp cube in the medication for about fifteen minutes and then fed. 

 

[bluesword23516]

Livebearers actually live for a while. I believe if the fish stayed healthy at about 74F it can live for about 5 years.

 

[ag-au]

Are the fish fighting? I had some male guppies that picked on each other a lot. Had to separate them.

 

[lexi93xo]

fish arent fighting, if you go on google and but in bent plattie fish you will see that they bend inwards thats how it happens, i dont know how to put another picture on here 

 

[lexi93xo]

Which way are they bending? I had a female macrostoma who would bend like a U and she wasted away rather fast. I fed medication laced food to the male to clean his system out and he is still with me. I believe it was internal parasites. 
 
What I did was took a quarter teaspoon of Metro+ and mix with three teaspoons of tank water. Then I soaked a frozen brine shrimp cube in the medication for about fifteen minutes and then fed. 

 
 
im not sure how to post another pic on here, but if you put in google images, and put in platties bending, and click the third image it should be a blue female plattie and shes skinny and bent, thats what they are going like, i had my water tested today and my nitrite and nitrates are off, but they are due a water change today, the results were, 15 and 25mgl but not sure what result went to what, hope this helps.

 

[tunagirll]

If you have nitrites then you have a problem because that means the bacteria in your tank have died off or you have a large ammonia spike that the bacteria can't process fast enough. There is definitely something going on.