Dear All,
This is my first posting so apologies if this has been covered elsewhere. I would really like to know if the problems we are having have been encountered before. First some background:
We have a 35 liltre BIORB with 10 fish: 2 black neon, 3 glowlights, 3 danios, 2 guppies and a dwarf african frog. It is well planted but has areas of open water as well. Recently we have lost four guppies in a row to the same thing. Firstly they start becoming more withdrawn and going to the to top of tank, hiding in foliage at an angle of 45 degrees, then the next moment they will look OK and feed normally. AS time goes by they spend more and more time at the top of tank like this and then deteriorate gradually and then more rapidly until they lose all control of their swim bladders and lie on the bottom (often on thier side or upside down) with only the pectoral fins maintaining current flow over the gills and then that stops and they die. Not managed to save one yet and we are reluctantly concluding that guppies are not for us.
They are all males and we have never kept females (no space for guppy love). The only one who seems unaffected is a male leopard-type which was only a youngster when we got him.
Water quality is normal and everyone else in the tank is OK.
Any ideas of what it might be or what can be done? We don't want to kill any more fish...
Thanks
Dominic
This is my first posting so apologies if this has been covered elsewhere. I would really like to know if the problems we are having have been encountered before. First some background:
We have a 35 liltre BIORB with 10 fish: 2 black neon, 3 glowlights, 3 danios, 2 guppies and a dwarf african frog. It is well planted but has areas of open water as well. Recently we have lost four guppies in a row to the same thing. Firstly they start becoming more withdrawn and going to the to top of tank, hiding in foliage at an angle of 45 degrees, then the next moment they will look OK and feed normally. AS time goes by they spend more and more time at the top of tank like this and then deteriorate gradually and then more rapidly until they lose all control of their swim bladders and lie on the bottom (often on thier side or upside down) with only the pectoral fins maintaining current flow over the gills and then that stops and they die. Not managed to save one yet and we are reluctantly concluding that guppies are not for us.
They are all males and we have never kept females (no space for guppy love). The only one who seems unaffected is a male leopard-type which was only a youngster when we got him.
Water quality is normal and everyone else in the tank is OK.
Any ideas of what it might be or what can be done? We don't want to kill any more fish...
Thanks
Dominic
