Dakota Ice
Fish Crazy
Even I, a guppy lover, cannot get this straightened out. I started my 20 gallon three weeks ago and added four guppies to cycle. Well they started getting fungus looking patches over their mouths, and then white dots on their body, but it was NOT ich. The spots were three times bigger than ich. Needless to say they all died. The last female to die had something I had never seen before.. Her whole tail and part of the actual body turned milky grey and began to fall off.. her scales rose up in just that spot and there was blood on certain spots.
I then added 4 more guppies, and they've been doing just as bad! One died, and one has the white crap around her mouth! I removed her and left the two males, who seem fine and energetic. She also behaves normal, but that tuft of white is a obvious sign she is sick.
Here is what I don't understand. I change the water 25% every week. Before I added the second set of fish I did a 85% to 90% water change. I add stress coat and stress zyme, and my ammonia reads ZERO. Don't ask my nitrite or nitrate or anything for that matter, I don't have those test kits or the money to go out and buy a fifty dollar master test kit.
I've never had issues with guppies before.. this is a first and it hurts to see them in pain.. What do I do? It IS fungus of some sort right?
I'm currently treating the female in her own 5 gallon with Maracyn 1, for body fungus, etc. but I have a feeling this is Mouth Fungus.
I then added 4 more guppies, and they've been doing just as bad! One died, and one has the white crap around her mouth! I removed her and left the two males, who seem fine and energetic. She also behaves normal, but that tuft of white is a obvious sign she is sick.
Here is what I don't understand. I change the water 25% every week. Before I added the second set of fish I did a 85% to 90% water change. I add stress coat and stress zyme, and my ammonia reads ZERO. Don't ask my nitrite or nitrate or anything for that matter, I don't have those test kits or the money to go out and buy a fifty dollar master test kit.
I've never had issues with guppies before.. this is a first and it hurts to see them in pain.. What do I do? It IS fungus of some sort right?
I'm currently treating the female in her own 5 gallon with Maracyn 1, for body fungus, etc. but I have a feeling this is Mouth Fungus.