My Fish Keep Dying

[EllieW]

Hi

Over the last 2 weeks ive had 4 fish dying almost one after the other

3 guppies and my dwarf gourami have died, the first 2 had symptoms of swim bladder, they were puffed up looking and sank to the bottom. My gourami and today another guppy just seemed to have died all of a sudden and are not puffed up.

I had done 30 % water changes once a week from day one. My Ammonia levels are ok, ph about 7.5

Any ideas would be great

 

[WILDER]

Size of tank in gallons or litres.
Do you have other water stats in nitrite, and nitrate.
What do you feed the fish.

Feed some shelled peas.

 

[EllieW]

Size of tank in gallons or litres.
Do you have other water stats in nitrite, and nitrate.
What do you feed the fish.

Feed some shelled peas.

will double check the stats tonight when i get home.

Tank is 180 litres.

Shelled peas??? Is that a secret cure of something?

 

[WILDER]

To many dried foods can lead to constipation and swim bladder.

Swim bladder is caused by bad water quality, unstable diet, injury, birth defect, bacterial infection of the swim bladder, internal parasites, unstable temp.

Cook some frozen peas for a few minutes. Let cool down and pop out of shell,. Mush into small peices and add to the tank.

 

[EllieW]

I feed my fish flake, dried bloodworm, cucumber for my bristlenose and sinking catfish pellets/wafers

and daphnia occasionally

To many dried foods can lead to constipation and swim bladder.

Swim bladder is caused by bad water quality, unstable diet, injury, birth defect, bacterial infection of the swim bladder, internal parasites, unstable temp.

Cook some frozen peas for a few minutes. Let cool down and pop out of shell,. Mush into small peices and add to the tank.

Really i never knew that about too many dried foods. What other foods should I be using?

Thanks for your help btw

 

[JoolsA2]

my friend had this problem in here tank and was caused by bad bactiria in the tank.It can also be caused by aquariums that are not mature inuf for the fish.

 

[WILDER]

I stop feeding freeze dried foods as they can make fish bloat up.

Frozen foods like bloodworms, but don't over feed them, brime shrimp, daphnia, veg.

 

[EllieW]

Had my tank now since Feb so i hope it is quite mature now. Had another guppy die tonight

Ive taken some more readings

Nitrate <0.3
Ammonia 0.1
PH 7.5
CO2 9

Is there anything unsual with them?

I gave them peas tonight and they love em, i hope changing their diet a bit will change things

 

[WILDER]

R.I.P.

With losing quite a few fish I would add anti internal bacteria med by interpet.

Do you have a nitrite reading.

 

[GuppyGoddess]

I gave them peas tonight and they love em, i hope changing their diet a bit will change things

Did you squish up the peas? When I fed my guppies peas, the pieces sunk to the bottom and ended up getting caught between the gravel and my guppies couldn't get to the bits.

 

[EllieW]

I gave them peas tonight and they love em, i hope changing their diet a bit will change things

Did you squish up the peas? When I fed my guppies peas, the pieces sunk to the bottom and ended up getting caught between the gravel and my guppies couldn't get to the bits.

I chopped them up really fine, bit fiddly but they managed to get the tiny bits, greedy mollys got the rest.

 

[WILDER]

That good that there eating them.
Feed peas twice a week as it keeps the fish going to the toilet.
Good luck.

 

[EllieW]

R.I.P.

With losing quite a few fish I would add anti internal bacteria med by interpet.

Do you have a nitrite reading.

I dont have a Nitrite test

 

[WILDER]

Nitrite very important so buy a liquid test kit.

 

[EllieW]

That good that there eating them.
Feed peas twice a week as it keeps the fish going to the toilet.
Good luck.

Thanks for your help be off to the lfs for a la carte bloodworm tomorrow .

oh and that other test kit too Going to have a full lab at this rate