LicianDragon
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I have a 20 gallon planted community tank. Fish include-
3 female guppies
1 male guppy
1 hifin molly
1 red-tiger platy
1 red-tail sand loach
3 julii cory cats
1 hillstream loach
I've had issues with fin tearing before that was attributed to an overstocked tank. The tank is fine now but my female guppies are still getting their tails torn up. IT's only the females too. Every other fish in my tank is fine.
The fins are merely torn, they're not red and the fish have no other injuries illnesses. They don't seem overly bothered by it, they're still eating and acting normal (no clamped fins, etc.). Two of the females recently dropped about a dozen fry collectively as well.
I'm worried about secondary infections and stress. Any ideas who could be tearing them up? The tank sits on my desk where I'm watching the fish nearly all hours of the day, I've never noticed any aggressive behavior. Occasionally the red-tail will chase the corys or the molly but its only during feeding and he's never pursued enough to cause injury.
Tank stats-
Ammonia-0
Nitrites- 0
Nitrates-10ppm
Temp. 74 F
3 female guppies
1 male guppy
1 hifin molly
1 red-tiger platy
1 red-tail sand loach
3 julii cory cats
1 hillstream loach
I've had issues with fin tearing before that was attributed to an overstocked tank. The tank is fine now but my female guppies are still getting their tails torn up. IT's only the females too. Every other fish in my tank is fine.
The fins are merely torn, they're not red and the fish have no other injuries illnesses. They don't seem overly bothered by it, they're still eating and acting normal (no clamped fins, etc.). Two of the females recently dropped about a dozen fry collectively as well.
I'm worried about secondary infections and stress. Any ideas who could be tearing them up? The tank sits on my desk where I'm watching the fish nearly all hours of the day, I've never noticed any aggressive behavior. Occasionally the red-tail will chase the corys or the molly but its only during feeding and he's never pursued enough to cause injury.
Tank stats-
Ammonia-0
Nitrites- 0
Nitrates-10ppm
Temp. 74 F