Guppies Lack Of Air?

[zendarx2]

One of my guppies seems to have a problem, it looks like he is working a bit to hard to swim. that’s if he is just moving and not just keeping in place. About 4 days ago the temp went up I in the tank over night and so I slowly lowered it its been fine but the water had to much current because of my air bubbles and the filter so my fry was having trouble moving around so I cut back on the bubbles so I was wondering if it had anything to do with the air in the tank. So I just now opened the air bubbles a little more.

So do you think it could be from the air bubbles?
How soon do you think he will start looking better if it was from the air?

I had this experience once before but it was more of a mystery death for some of my older guppies once I added more air they all were fine by the next day.

Thanks.

 

[Luke_e]

As long as the surface is moving then oxygen will be transfered into the water. Air bubbles arent neccessary as long as the surface is being adgitated. If he's finding it hard to swim up/down it may be swim bladder and someone may be able to post info on this, although try feeding him some chopped up thawed deshelled peas.
Or it could be the current is too strong in the tank.

 

[zendarx2]

Thanks. He is looking better now, I just gave them some more air bubbles and did a 10% water change, he is doing well. He could swim up and down just fine but it would kinda "wobble" back and forth when trying to swim. and he was kinda gulping for air...well it looked like that anyway.

 

[SnowyzMom]

I have a fancy guppy male, very large long tail and the ruddy thing is quite a hindrance to him. I didn't buy him, he's 2nd gen. It just kept growing. He does quite abit of wobbling in the water just trying to get anywhere! I feel rather sorry for him actually. He's perfectly healthy but can't get up a head of speed with all that fancy tail hanging down behind him. I keep him in a quieter tank, no current where he'd never stand a chance. It's probably just as well he's got that long tail tripping him up as he's quite a bossy so and so and would love to chase and nip the other males tails if he could just catch them. I guess he knows he's "all that" and wants to lord it over them.

When one of my fancy tail guppy males got very VERY old he began just swimming in place, he seemed to have lost his forwards gear so after making sure he wasn't injured or sick and watching him not even trying to feed anymore, I gently euthanized him. There's one quite old 1/2 black with silvery blue fins male that is slowly losing all his coloring, he's that old. I removed him from the other males who were beginning to pick on him and he's perked right up again, but he doesn't have a huge long tail tripping him up. I stuck him in a quiet tank with some of the girls. He's too old to do anything but they've certainly put a smile on his face!