Fish Symptoms: Looks like a brain bleed with red circular spot on her side and red dots on the sides of her lips.
Hi all, I'm new to the forum and trying to figure out what is wrong with my guppy. I got her from LFS 2 days ago, she looked great in LFT tank, but I have to admit most of the others didn't. I was desperate trying to find a couple female guppies, because I was at a 2:1 male:female ratio in my tank and don't want my single female to be bullied to death. I floated her 20 min in her bag, then added 1/2 cup of tank water to bag x4 about 10 minutes apart and made sure to not put bag water into tank. First day and a 1/2 she looked great, next morning she was hanging out at the top of the tank, not eating and had all these red what look like blood areas, like a brain bleed or something, along with a red spot on her side. I took her out in case she has parasites. She's currently in a 5 gallon with water taken from the 55 g tank.
I've always loved guppies, have had many over the years and have never seen this before. I'm 90% sure she'll die by tomorrow, but I'm trying to figure out what's wrong in case any of my other fish end up with similar symptoms.
Tank has been set up and operational for 4 yrs.
Tank size: 55 gal
pH: 7.4-7.6 (according to API liquid test kit)
ammonia: 0 (according to API liquid test kit)
nitrite: 0 (according to API liquid test kit)
nitrate: 40-50 (according to API liquid test kit)
Total Hardness: 150 (according to Tetra Easy Strips)
tank temp: 82F
Water changes: With gravel vacuum - once a month (replacing about 20 g). Add water, 5 g every other week. (Use Start Rite for tap water)
Chemicals/treatments used: Nothing yet
Tank Mates: 2 male guppies, 1 female guppy (since I took the sick 1 out), 1 glowlight tetra, 1 male swordtail, 2 platies, 1 octocinclus, 1 cory
Recently added new fish? Yes, a couple guppies 2 weeks earlier
Hi all, I'm new to the forum and trying to figure out what is wrong with my guppy. I got her from LFS 2 days ago, she looked great in LFT tank, but I have to admit most of the others didn't. I was desperate trying to find a couple female guppies, because I was at a 2:1 male:female ratio in my tank and don't want my single female to be bullied to death. I floated her 20 min in her bag, then added 1/2 cup of tank water to bag x4 about 10 minutes apart and made sure to not put bag water into tank. First day and a 1/2 she looked great, next morning she was hanging out at the top of the tank, not eating and had all these red what look like blood areas, like a brain bleed or something, along with a red spot on her side. I took her out in case she has parasites. She's currently in a 5 gallon with water taken from the 55 g tank.
I've always loved guppies, have had many over the years and have never seen this before. I'm 90% sure she'll die by tomorrow, but I'm trying to figure out what's wrong in case any of my other fish end up with similar symptoms.
Tank has been set up and operational for 4 yrs.
Tank size: 55 gal
pH: 7.4-7.6 (according to API liquid test kit)
ammonia: 0 (according to API liquid test kit)
nitrite: 0 (according to API liquid test kit)
nitrate: 40-50 (according to API liquid test kit)
Total Hardness: 150 (according to Tetra Easy Strips)
tank temp: 82F
Water changes: With gravel vacuum - once a month (replacing about 20 g). Add water, 5 g every other week. (Use Start Rite for tap water)
Chemicals/treatments used: Nothing yet
Tank Mates: 2 male guppies, 1 female guppy (since I took the sick 1 out), 1 glowlight tetra, 1 male swordtail, 2 platies, 1 octocinclus, 1 cory
Recently added new fish? Yes, a couple guppies 2 weeks earlier