joriswechsler
New Member
Greetings from Amsterdam Fish community!
This is my first post on this forum so hopefully it goes well! since one or two days one of my guppy is swimming upright with his head up and his tail down he seems to be struggling to stay afloat and moves rather slowly, sometimes he also hides in his house. Sometimes he seems to be normal but then returns to his vertical swimming after a few minutes. I will attach a photo of him! His tankmates do not seem to have the same problem. I read on the Internet that it could be a swim bladder disease and that I should not feed him for three days and afterwords feed him peas, but I don’t know if that is true. It is a 45 L aquarium with around five plants and 4 other guppies, I normally do a 20% water change every week and treat the water beforehand. I do not remember the test results from this morning but all the values seem to be fine and im using the Tetra 6 in 1 test kit. I feed them TetraMin flakes normally once a day, but realised that I have to feed them a little bit less. Since the week I have a problem with brown algae but I thought that that did not harm the fish. I also attached a photo of the whole tank to give you an impression! I hope you can give me some advice or recommendations as to what I can do, he was one of my first fish and I care dearly for him.
Thank you in advance,
Joris
This is my first post on this forum so hopefully it goes well! since one or two days one of my guppy is swimming upright with his head up and his tail down he seems to be struggling to stay afloat and moves rather slowly, sometimes he also hides in his house. Sometimes he seems to be normal but then returns to his vertical swimming after a few minutes. I will attach a photo of him! His tankmates do not seem to have the same problem. I read on the Internet that it could be a swim bladder disease and that I should not feed him for three days and afterwords feed him peas, but I don’t know if that is true. It is a 45 L aquarium with around five plants and 4 other guppies, I normally do a 20% water change every week and treat the water beforehand. I do not remember the test results from this morning but all the values seem to be fine and im using the Tetra 6 in 1 test kit. I feed them TetraMin flakes normally once a day, but realised that I have to feed them a little bit less. Since the week I have a problem with brown algae but I thought that that did not harm the fish. I also attached a photo of the whole tank to give you an impression! I hope you can give me some advice or recommendations as to what I can do, he was one of my first fish and I care dearly for him.
Thank you in advance,
Joris