Guppies...help Please!

[tamara]

okay i'll take a picture when i get back from school...

 

[tamara]

well one of them died last night for no apparent reason..
he seemed perfectly healthy then this morning when i woke up he was caught in my plants
so i got 3 to replace him for free..
and one of my not quite "old" ones...but one of my first ones that i got [male]
is picking on like..4 of the other guppies...i'm curious why...territorial?
but 1/4 i got at the same time as the bully...
and that 1 is the one i can't tell for male/female...
and then he's chasing two that i'm almost 100% sure are female[free ones]
and one other one taht i got about 2 weeks ago...

 

[mesapod]

you mean you got even more fish for the tank
Wow do you have 10 or 11 guppies in your tank now thats way too much think of the guppies their way too crowded

 

[omen666]

Mesa exactly what I was thinking , you may be headed for even more deaths if you add anymore fish to that tank , you have TOO many! You will never have a successful tank at this rate.

 

[tamara]

..they gave them to me for frfee..
and they all look happy...

 

[tamara]

i changed the name of the thread...because that wasn't the only problem!
so ya..

 

[x-fish]

hmm 9 is too much
have 3 males and 3 females
try getting some swapped

 

[tamara]

they don't take any exchanges or anything unless if they die..
and i don't wanna kill them...
but one died yesterday...all his colors were completly flushed away from him for about a week or more and his fins seemed very thin...but NOT finrot...
so i had him in a 2.5 gallon doing water changes everyday but he died yesterday anyways
and he was from a different store from all the rest...
as well as another guppie[same type..] i got three of them from that sstore
and well the one died and now the other one is doing the exact same thing..
could it be that they were just old?
because before they were perfectly fine..
and the third one seems like it's all perfect...except it's gender confused!!! haha..well not really
but he's got a big belly, male colors, male penis..and ya lol

 

[stang1]

Have you got nay other tanks that you could move a couple of your guppies into just until you decide what you want to keep?

 

[tamara]

o nly one 2.5 gallon..
but that's where my one guppy that looks like hes sick is in right now
because the one died yesterday and the one in the 2.5 gallon is acting the same way as the one that died...

 

[tamara]

well one of the guppies in the 2.5 gallon actually i think it's only 1 gallon but ya..
the one guppie that i said had looked like he was going to die from old age died...
not sure if it was old age or not..because it happened while i was in school, so then my mom saw him and netted him and threw him down the toilet...

 

[stang1]

Have you checked your water stats? After reading some of your posts it seems you're losing a few fish. I wouldn't buy any more until you get to the bottom of the problem as to why they are dying. If you can get a picture of one of your sick guppies someone maybe able to help identify what the problem is.

 

[tamara]

well one of the guppies i bought from the store had fin rot...
so he's in a 1 gallon alone with a few plants and stuff [it's cramped but i don't want it to spread...]
and with him not there i have 8 in the main tank so ya...
and i did the water stats 2 days ago nitrite, amonia = 0
i'll check them now and post in 10 minutes.