Guppies And Tb

[GuppyGoddess]

How common is it for Guppies to have TB? One of mine thinned out in a terrible manner. I had him for 2.5 months before culling him this week. The last month of those 2.5 months, he was terribly thin, but I hesitated to put an end to him b/c he was my son's fish.

I have levamisole which I can use to deworm him and his three guppy tank mates, but want to confirm first that TB is rare. I'm just not that familiar with TB enough to know if my fish could have had that. One of my other fish did have camallanus, but after I removed him from the tank and treated with levamisole, none of the other fish have shown any signs of the red threads.

Any experience or thoughts regarding this?

FWIW - the only "symptom" I could find in common with TB was the emaciation. He still ate, swam, and interacted with the other fish.

Thanks for any help!

 

[helterskelter]

TB is shop fish is very rare. if you got wild stock their is a greater risk.

 

[GuppyGoddess]

TB is shop fish is very rare. if you got wild stock their is a greater risk.

I'm not even sure what I have. I asked the shop where I bought that guppy and she said some of their stock comes from a local breeder. The other shops all said they get theirs from either Florida or Arizona. I bet the Floridian ones are wild.

Not sure what to do now. . .

 

[OldMan47]

Any guppies that you receive are likely not wild caught. Very few people would ever buy a wild guppy these days. I am one of a very small number of wild fish fanciers, but even I must admit that wild fish are not nearly as attractive as domestic stock. Any guppy caught in Florida is not wild, it is feral at best. Guppies do not naturally occur in Florida but have been released there from domestic stock and enough have survived and reproduced to produce plenty of feral fish. The true wild type guppies are a product of the Antilles and northern South America. On the other hand, guppies have been introduced all over the world in semitropical waters as mosquito control. Although they do no more than the native fish to control mosquitoes, they have survived in many places including northern areas of Africa, the Gulf of Mexico and several other places.