Hi
I have a 200L tank, well planted and at the moment hugely understocked with only about 15 fish in it.
All water stats are fine.
I recently had a few sudden, unexplained deaths in the tank and so I treated for internal bacteria as that seemed to fit best. Since then there have been no deaths and the tank seems very happy again (fish eating well, very active).
However I noticed a couple of times that 1 of my male guppies was flicking himself off the gravel. I can watch for hours and he won't do it but then he may do it once every few days (that I can see).
As far as I can see he is the only one who is doing it and I am wondering if there is something I need to be worried about??
Of course it is easy to type this into google and you get all sorts of horror stories about white spot, ich, and worse, but I wanted to ask people's opinions since he has no other symptoms, seems very happy and no other fish are doing it.
Occasionally I've also seen long, stringy, white poo from a couple of the fish but not very often.
Does anyone have any advice as to whether I need to worry or need to do something? Or do fish just get itches sometimes....
?
I have a 200L tank, well planted and at the moment hugely understocked with only about 15 fish in it.
All water stats are fine.
I recently had a few sudden, unexplained deaths in the tank and so I treated for internal bacteria as that seemed to fit best. Since then there have been no deaths and the tank seems very happy again (fish eating well, very active).
However I noticed a couple of times that 1 of my male guppies was flicking himself off the gravel. I can watch for hours and he won't do it but then he may do it once every few days (that I can see).
As far as I can see he is the only one who is doing it and I am wondering if there is something I need to be worried about??
Of course it is easy to type this into google and you get all sorts of horror stories about white spot, ich, and worse, but I wanted to ask people's opinions since he has no other symptoms, seems very happy and no other fish are doing it.
Occasionally I've also seen long, stringy, white poo from a couple of the fish but not very often.
Does anyone have any advice as to whether I need to worry or need to do something? Or do fish just get itches sometimes....
?
