Guppies

[SPLiSH]

I recently bought 3 male guppies, under the impression that they were hardy. But since they've been in my tank, I've had one problem after another! My water params are fine, yet they seem to be constantly ill!

Has anyone else had problems with guppies or is it just me?

 

[Nuttygal! :0)]

What sort of things have been happening SPLiSH? And what other fishies do you have in the tank?

 

[sammydee]

I never had any luck with guppies. I had four and they ALL died, whilst the other fish were completely unnaffected.

 

[Nuttygal! :0)]

...actually, come to think of it, I have been losing the odd guppy unexpectedly recently....but I still have loads though.

 

[claireroe]

hi ,we have three male guppies and all are fine and ok , only had them about two weeks though !

 

[charmd2]

I'd send you a few but you live a little far away for shipping purposes. Probally due to massive inbreeding causing them to become not so resistant to disease.

 

[One_Trick_Pony]

apprently the guppies are nolonger as hardy as they used to be due to massiv inbreeding to get the colours desired

 

[WILDER]

No they are not a hardy fish and i've tryed keeping them twice but gave up in the end as they always die on me, they tend to get internal parasites, gill flukes and tailrot problems, I have platys now and they are alot hardy but can be moody at times.

 

[Kittycat]

Guppies and bettas were my first fishes, and neither were as hardy as I thought they were. I've lost a lot of guppies in the past year I've been keeping them, in fact, I've lost all but 1 of my store-bought guppies (gosh, there must have been, like, 40 of them or something). What I have left are those of my breeding, they seem to last better, as some of them are already almost a year old (versus the few months the store bought ones last at the most).

 

[morgan]

Sorry to disagree, I have guppies and they are fine. I had bad problems with water quality once and the mollies, guppies and platys all survived. Having said that my one platy died (much later)and while I was buying some more fish the assistant said that platies need to be in pairs. (I thought it looked quite happy on it's own)I bought a platy and after about a week the new platy died followed soon after by the old one! The other fish are fine, no ich or anything.

 

[Dart]

i think it depends on the water parameters for guppies, my one friend say a bunch and they breed like wildfire and all survive. But where i live the water i guess isn't as nice? It has a lot of calcium in it. I think you go through a lot before you get ones that keep, and i've also found ones with a little duller colour last longer.

 

[LoachLover]

I've always done bad with guppies

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Because of the inbreeding in guppys, you will genurenly find that it is almost always the more brighty colored metallic ones that are the weakest because they have gone under all kinds of inbreeding to obtain their looks/colors...The same goes for most lyretail and long finned fancy guppys too.
But other than that the rest are pretty hardy.
I would say the same goes for platys but not usually to the extent it does with guppys.

 

[NinjaSmurf]

All the guppies I bought from the store died, but their fry are doing great. So far my three males are getting the most interesting tails, I don't know where from considering none of the ones I bought were anything but plain old fantail/veiltail sorts...

I don't think they are as hardy as they were though, I managed to easily kill mine occasionally...

 

[SPLiSH]

Lol, thanks charmed2.

What sort of things have been happening SPLiSH? And what other fishies do you have in the tank?

Originally there were 3 male guppies... now down to 2. As for the things that have been happening, after about a day I came home to find the smallest one, Marguerita, dead. He'd been fine that morning. I buried him, figuring it was just the stress of a new environment. Now the other two have fungus: one bad and the other not so bad. The first is in a hospital tank. I've tried all the meds under the sun (not all at once, of course) and given them two salt baths. They improve drastically during and after the baths, but an hour or so later become listless and the fungus returns.

I feel helpless.