P0nyL0rd
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I have a 12L guppy tank, with a couple other live bearers like black mollies and a hifin lyretail swordtail. It is a new tank.
I let it have a fishless cycle for about a week with well established filter medium from my other tank's filter placed in the new tank's HOB filter. I didn't do readings, I'm poor and test kits are really expensive here
Well, I placed some of my grown up fry into the tank. They were happy to upgrade from a 1L to 12L! They are very small even though they are 7 months old, I think inbreeding as the cause. They lived fine in my tank! Then came a pair of black mollies, a male and hifin lyretail female, and my hifin lyretail swordtail, they seemed to think the tank rather spiffy, they settled in right away. The tank was about a month old then.
I bought 10 more guppies from a LFS, and all hell broke loose. They were quarantined for 10 days, all fine, and when i did the usual introduction into the new tank, they seemed fine.
Next day, body count 1.
I didn't really know what was going on, looked like they were suffering from fungal fin rot, so I put some medication in.
Next day, body count 2. 50% water change
Continued with the medication, other fish seemed fine, one gave birth to fry, put them in a floating fry trap.
Next day body count 4 50% water change
Stopped medication, one of my original batch died.
Fast forward to today. I am left with 1 of the bought guppies after 2 weeks, and he isn't don't very well.. Red fin becoming transparent.. listless and all that. What could be happening with my tank? What's wrong with it that they couldn't take it? The other fish are absolutely fine with it, and now some are dying of whatever killed the store bought guppies, bah, how frustrating.
I'm sad cos these guppies I raised since they were itty bitty, the tank has aquarium salt in it. What could be going on?
I let it have a fishless cycle for about a week with well established filter medium from my other tank's filter placed in the new tank's HOB filter. I didn't do readings, I'm poor and test kits are really expensive here
Well, I placed some of my grown up fry into the tank. They were happy to upgrade from a 1L to 12L! They are very small even though they are 7 months old, I think inbreeding as the cause. They lived fine in my tank! Then came a pair of black mollies, a male and hifin lyretail female, and my hifin lyretail swordtail, they seemed to think the tank rather spiffy, they settled in right away. The tank was about a month old then.
I bought 10 more guppies from a LFS, and all hell broke loose. They were quarantined for 10 days, all fine, and when i did the usual introduction into the new tank, they seemed fine.
Next day, body count 1.
I didn't really know what was going on, looked like they were suffering from fungal fin rot, so I put some medication in.
Next day, body count 2. 50% water change
Continued with the medication, other fish seemed fine, one gave birth to fry, put them in a floating fry trap.
Next day body count 4 50% water change
Stopped medication, one of my original batch died.
Fast forward to today. I am left with 1 of the bought guppies after 2 weeks, and he isn't don't very well.. Red fin becoming transparent.. listless and all that. What could be happening with my tank? What's wrong with it that they couldn't take it? The other fish are absolutely fine with it, and now some are dying of whatever killed the store bought guppies, bah, how frustrating.
I'm sad cos these guppies I raised since they were itty bitty, the tank has aquarium salt in it. What could be going on?
