About 5 days ago I bought 7 guppies and 2 ghost shrimp for my 25 gal. tank.
I now have 3 of my poor guppies left (and my shrimp appear unharmed).
I'm willing to accept this sad occurence because all 4 of the dead fish came from the same petshop and died within a three day period.
My remaining 3 females seemed to be doing fine but just today the largest of them seems to have caught some strange disease, different from the one that killed the other 4 (which looked like some kind of mouth fungus).
She has a white spot on her normally dark tail where the scales are raised instead of flat. It doesn't seem like dropsy because she shows no signs of swelling, but these are my first guppies and I have no experience with dropsy.
Current tank status: around 80 degrees, ammonia and heavy metal filter in place, water de-chlorinated, two live plants (thriving), started medicating water with Melafix when the first fish got sick, am still medicating, removed active carbon filter as directed on Melafix instructions, guppies are the only fish in the tank, am very worried, loosing so many fish is depressing... two females are pregnant (one of which is sick)
Here's hoping you can help me out! (sorry about the long post...)
I now have 3 of my poor guppies left (and my shrimp appear unharmed).
I'm willing to accept this sad occurence because all 4 of the dead fish came from the same petshop and died within a three day period.
My remaining 3 females seemed to be doing fine but just today the largest of them seems to have caught some strange disease, different from the one that killed the other 4 (which looked like some kind of mouth fungus).
She has a white spot on her normally dark tail where the scales are raised instead of flat. It doesn't seem like dropsy because she shows no signs of swelling, but these are my first guppies and I have no experience with dropsy.
Current tank status: around 80 degrees, ammonia and heavy metal filter in place, water de-chlorinated, two live plants (thriving), started medicating water with Melafix when the first fish got sick, am still medicating, removed active carbon filter as directed on Melafix instructions, guppies are the only fish in the tank, am very worried, loosing so many fish is depressing... two females are pregnant (one of which is sick)
Here's hoping you can help me out! (sorry about the long post...)
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