Okay, Bit Of A Dilema Here :s

[wackystarfish]

Okay, my guppy here has quite badly ripped fins, and has been meloncholy for a while now. It seems as if, all of a sudden she is heavily pregnant?! It is really odd, as i can not see a gravid spot. When you look at her scales, they do fleck out a teeeny tiny bit, could this be dropsy starting to take a hold? However, the flecky scales are on her back, and her belly which is the inflated bit isnt stickyout scales... I have never had this problem before At the moment she is in a breeding trap. She is in a 30 gall which has been running for 2 years now. Here are some pictures.

 

[wackystarfish]

Anyone...?

 

[loraxchick]

doesnt look like dropsy to me. no pineconing from above-classic dropsy symptom. she IS cute. on the one picture from head on, her little pec fins make her look like a hummingbird (minus the beak of course

 

[Spishkey]

keep a very close eye on her, i would say it is dropsy. my fish went from looking like that to full pinecone and death in 24 hours

 

[wackystarfish]

oh no. Is dropsy contagious?
Im doing a water change now.

 

[wackystarfish]

Can anyone talk about this further?

 

[Miah002]

It's dropsy.

Is the guppy in a seperate tank if shes not then seperate her and the treat her tank with melafix or some anti internal bacteria medicine. I would treat the whole tank that she is in.

 

[wackystarfish]

Is Anti Internal Bacteria Medicine by Interpet okay? I cant seperate her into a different tank, but i do have her in the breeder. I read that it isnt contagious via water, only if the fish canabalise on the dead bodies...

 

[wackystarfish]

She passed away, i didnt treat the water thankfully... However, the body was found in the main tank so she must have jumped? The body was whole and in tact, only the colour had faded it is strange, it is like the fish knew not to eat the body...

 

[WILDER]

R.I.P.
What were your water stats in ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, and ph.
What do you feed your fish.
What does it look like when the fish goes to the toilet.

 

[wackystarfish]

Unfortunatley, all the stat tester cards got soaked and so i cant test it, however i do 25% water changes every two weeks and i have had the tank set up for Two years so it shouldnt have any ammonia etc problems... I feed them Aquarian flakes as a staple diet, which i supplement with Tropical pellets and everyonce in a while Tetramin bloodworm that comes in little packets with nutrient jelly. Alll the fish's poos are healthy and brown appart from the affected fish whos poos became white, and feathery almost. like the fungus that grows on fish when they have fungus. But long and stringy

 

[WILDER]

Test strip cards are not that accurate anyway. liquid test kits are the best.
Still best to check water quality now and then.
Diet could do with improving in more frozen foods like daphnia which is good as it digests the fish food, brimestrimp.
To many bloodworms can bloat fish up, and shouldn't really be fed more than twice a week.
Also some green veg would be good in there diet like peas, broc, sproats, green cabbage, spinach, lettuce.

Long stringy white poo can mean constipation, bacterial infection, internal parasites.

 

[wackystarfish]

Ok will do. It wasnt a strip test, it was a chemical one. However the little booklets you get the instructions of how to conduct each test got wet and all stuck together They also had on them the little colour chart. As for prepping the veg, do i just blanche it in boiling water for two minutes to kill of any nasties?

 

[WILDER]

Sorry I read it wrong thought you meant the test strip tests.
Do a thread in tropical discussion as some members put instructions up and colour charts, just name the make of the test kit you use.

Yes blanch veg for two minutes in boiling water.
Peas are good.
Cook frozen peas for a few minutes in boiling water, let cool down and pop out of shell.Mush into small pieces and add to the tank.
It keeps the fish going to the toilet, as to many dried foods can cause constipation and bloating.

 

[wackystarfish]

Okay thanks for your help Wilder. I allready did, but to no reply... Thankyou so much for your help on this matter, lookslike tomorrow the fish are having salad!
Finlay