Hi Could I Please Have Some Help (female Guppy!)

[Animal ry]

Hi well i have had fish for a few years now and i learnt very quickly to have meds stocked up incase of a sudden outbreak anyway my fishtanks have been fine until the 30th i noticed three of my fish had completly diffrent illnesses!!!

My female guppy had swimbladder out of nowhere but ushally once i put a few drops in there fine and it worked as it ushally does she still has some comtroll but the med does not seem to be working anymore? so i was wondering if there is soemthing more than meets the eye.

However the worst is my plate she has been fine and then one day her eyes were all clouded up she couldent swim well and her fins seemed whity when i fed her before she was normall with her sister!!! so i put some anti parisite and it helped clear up her eyes but nothing elce so she looks awfull but yet still eats and things as ushal!!!

Strangly all the other fish seem completly normall i have put the whole tank under lockdown but everyone elce seems fine!!!


Any help would be most welcome thank you!

 

[dthoffsett]

Could you fill out as much of the following information as possible? This will hopefully give those helping you enough information to figure out what is wrong.

Tank size:
pH:
ammonia:
nitrite:
nitrate:
kH:
gH:
tank temp:

Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior):

Volume and Frequency of water changes:

Chemical Additives or Media in your tank:

Tank inhabitants (what species and how many of each):

Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration):

Exposure to chemicals:

Digital photo (include if possible):

 

[Animal ry]

Well i am not fully sure on all the questions but i will awnser all i can.

Tank size:
pH: 7.6
ammonia: from what i can tell good.
nitrite:
nitrate: not sure not mentioned on test
kH:100 or 15.d
gH:50 or 16.d
tank temp: 66 i think in the green where its always had to be.

Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior): as said in my post above everyone acting normall eating and swimming around although more ina group now even the ill guppy is swimming with them its the plate at the bottom that cant seem to manage =-[

Volume and Frequency of water changes: Well i cleaned the fish tank out quite a few days ago.

Chemical Additives or Media in your tank:

Tank inhabitants (what species and how many of each): Four sordtails, Three guppys,Seven plates.

Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration): No recent but i have had some suprise deaths and the sadest of my oldest female guppy 3-4 weeks ago way ebfore any of this started =-[

Exposure to chemicals: Just the fish medicens put in for illnesses.

Digital photo (include if possible): Took some pictures but it wont let me upolad due to them being to big =-[

 

[WILDER]

Measure your tank with a tape measure and use the aquarium calculator at the top of the board.

Take a sample of your water to the lfs and ask them to write the readings down for you.

Swim bladder can be caused by bad water quality, bad diet, to many dried foods, internal parasites, bacterial, injury, birth defect, unstable temp.
A bacterial med will on work on swim bladder if its a bacterial infection of the swim bladder.
What do you feed the fish?

Cloudy eys is a symtom of a desease not a desease in its own right.
Causes.
Bad water quality.
Stress.
Old age.
Irratation.
Poor diet.
Parasites.
Bacterial.

Is the fish eyes bulging out.

If the fish fins are white on the edges it could be bacterial finrot.

 

[dthoffsett]

Well, I'll help where I can, I'm not that great with fish diseases.

IME most diseases are caused by poor water quality, do you have a test kit or do you get you water tested at you LFS?

If you have a test kit (preferably a liquid kit as test strips are notoriously inaccurate) can you test you water and give us the exact measurements? If not, have your LFS test your water and write down the exact amounts.

66 degress is way to low for the fish you are keeping, you water temp should be around 78, this could also explain why your fish are getting ill. Do you have a heater on the tank? If so, slowly start raising the temperature about a degreee a day.

You said you changed your water quite a few days ago, how often do you usually change your water and how much do you change?

I know that doesn't help with your current problem, but I see Wilder has started helping you as I typed this. You're in good hands with her.

As for photos, sign up for imageshack or photobucket (it's free) and upload your pics there. Then copy the IMG code and paste in your post.

 

[Animal ry]

Well i will get on it i dont have test kit i have a strip wich i dip in the water and that takes the things like ph down and things like that =-]

I know about the cloudy eye luckly that has cleared up in all but one of the fish the eyes are not bulging.

I thinkt here couldbe soemthing wrong witht hat female guppy i have put the meds in and it worked before if there was a problem luckly she can can hold herself and still swim!

Pictures.

I clean it about once a month and i have been for years its never caused a problem before?

 

[zoetetra]

was just wondering if you are using carbon to remove 1 kind of medication before you are adding another medication as this can cause problems in your tank.

 

[Animal ry]

No i leave it 2-4 days as i wa told?

I used to mix them if i saw two diffrent illnesses and it worked for a year i only did it because i was told it wouldent cause any harm but when the new fish shop owners took over they told me that it can cause reactions

So now i do try and leave it a few days.

 

[WILDER]

Liquid test kits are the best, more accurate.
Take a sample of your water to the lfs and ask them to write the readings down for you.
Have you feed any shelled peas yet.

 

[Animal ry]

I have never heard of shelled peas being given to fish? how would it help them?

Who is the ifs???

The medication looks to have helped the guppy (touch wood) and my plate is now swimming again but the face is still clouded over and the fins seem a bit white on the edge and he seems to be missing the food!!! i am worried she may be blind now

 

[Jibber_Angel]

I have never heard of shelled peas being given to fish? how would it help them?

Who is the ifs???

The medication looks to have helped the guppy (touch wood) and my plate is now swimming again but the face is still clouded over and the fins seem a bit white on the edge and he seems to be missing the food!!! i am worried she may be blind now

LFS - Local Fish Shop.

Sorry to jump in your thread but how do you know your always getting a correct reading if the tubes have been used for other peoples water tests reading? I just wondered as what our LFS said wasnt the same as what we got when we brought a kit from them on the same day.

Jemma

 

[MBOU]

I might just be stupid but...

A: why is your water level so low?
B: Do you have a filter in there? I can see one...

 

[Animal ry]

Well i dont put it up two high as i get a better filter flow throw the water and eys we do have afilter its always on has been for years lol!

Thanks now i know what lfs means! not sure what you mean the water tests i have are not used by anyone elce did i mispell something

 

[MBOU]

She wasnt referring to your case, if a shop doesnt clean their test tubes then they would give inacurate results... but the shop should be cleaning them so... (if you do have a problem with your shops test, you can ask nicely for them to retest it, be polite and check they wash the test tubes...)

Animal ry, is it an undergravel filter?

 

[Animal ry]

She wasnt referring to your case, if a shop doesnt clean their test tubes then they would give inacurate results... but the shop should be cleaning them so... (if you do have a problem with your shops test, you can ask nicely for them to retest it, be polite and check they wash the test tubes...)

Animal ry, is it an undergravel filter?

Ohhhh ok never had them do a water test will ask!

It is but there is a filter tube that comes up and filters the water out