Guppy acting strange....

[purple_drazi]

A couple of days ago I noticed that one of my guppies has started acting strangely, he's hiding under a plant and breathing really quickly.

I tested the water just last Thursday and all of the perameters are normal for a planted aquarium: Ammonia 0, Nitrites 0, Nitrates 40, ph 7.6. The tank has been tested weekly and has been stable since the fall.

Everybody else is acting normally, the other guppies are doing their guppy thing - playing chase in the water current (class clowns), and the neons, panda cory and oto are all likewise fine and just hanging out.

any ideas what's wrong with my one guppy?

 

[WILDER]

Does the gill area look red and inflamed.

 

[purple_drazi]

No, it doesn't.

His colour looks normal, there's no obvious sign of trauma/damage and very once in awhile he'll swim around a bit, but most of the time he just lies on the gravel, preferably hiding under a plant, breathing really hard and making swimming movements with his fins (he's not still).

stumped.

 

[3fsh]

Sounds like he could have parasites in his gills. Do you see any teeny-tiny white worms sticking out from underneath his gills when he "breathes"?

 

[purple_drazi]

No wormy things in the gills.
He's so sick I was able to scoop him up in my hand and I was able to hold him up close to the glass so that I could get a good look at him. I put a flashlight on him and practically got nose to nose - and there's nothing out of the ordinary to see.
Maybe he bashed himself against something?

 

[Dart]

Does he have any white fluffy stuff on his back or white stingy poo?

I lost a few of my guppies in teh past few weeks, grrr, i didn't catch the internal parasites in time (the stringy poo) and i lost one fish after only a day because it had some fungus on his back.

*just a side note* I found out that the guppies my LFS were selling were "defective" lol i was talking to them and they were telling me the supplier has a lot of issues with diseases. As in they order 50 some odd fish and only 5 or so actually get to teh pet store alive

 

[purple_drazi]

he died in the night

I'm going to keep a close eye on the rest of the guys for sure! I'll keep a look out for internal parasites - I think that may have been what got him, the comment about the long stringy poo rings a bell though when I looked for it he didn't have any.


thanks for all the help guys, even if we didn't figure it out!

 

[WILDER]

Sorry for your loss, it might of been a bacteria infection if they were no physical signs on the fish, only the heavy breathing.