Phantom Pregnancy

[BettaCrazy7]

Dont worry about it, they will give birth eventually, they may have done and the fry got eaten, never go by gravids spots, its very misleading, when it comes to guppys and endlers u do tend to find they always have dark gravid spots.

Like old man said, plenty of cover (heavily plant tank) and u will soon see lots of fry about

Oh, this reminds me. I have two males with gravid spots. One is an endler and the other is just a little male I picked up as a baby and before I knew the gender. The latter one's spot comes and goes.

That is weird.



My livebearers have been dieing and I don't know why. I did a water change. I changed the filter. I'm getting my water tested to see what's up.

I just lost my yellow snakeskin guppy today . My sunset platy is dead. My two variegated snakeskins are dead. <-- They were from the last drop of fry I had. I only have one left.

 

[biokid101]

awee try to seperate it somewhere until u find out whats wrong

 

[GuppyGoddess]

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That is weird.



My livebearers have been dieing and I don't know why. I did a water change. I changed the filter. I'm getting my water tested to see what's up.

I just lost my yellow snakeskin guppy today . My sunset platy is dead. My two variegated snakeskins are dead. <-- They were from the last drop of fry I had. I only have one left.
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Sorry about your fish. I've pretty had terrible luck with guppies. Mine show signs of possibly having TB and I just want to let the few live out their lives and toss the entire tank (since it's contaminated). My son loves his guppies though, so I'm kind of stuck keeping some for him.

 

[Harlequins]

Dont worry about it, they will give birth eventually, they may have done and the fry got eaten, never go by gravids spots, its very misleading, when it comes to guppys and endlers u do tend to find they always have dark gravid spots.

Like old man said, plenty of cover (heavily plant tank) and u will soon see lots of fry about

Oh, this reminds me. I have two males with gravid spots. One is an endler and the other is just a little male I picked up as a baby and before I knew the gender. The latter one's spot comes and goes.

That is weird.



My livebearers have been dieing and I don't know why. I did a water change. I changed the filter. I'm getting my water tested to see what's up.

I just lost my yellow snakeskin guppy today . My sunset platy is dead. My two variegated snakeskins are dead. <-- They were from the last drop of fry I had. I only have one left.

Sorry to hear you're losing fish,when you say you changed the filter,what do you mean?
If you have totally replaced the original media,you have basically thrown away the bacteria that was keeping the fish alive,

 

[BettaCrazy7]

Dont worry about it, they will give birth eventually, they may have done and the fry got eaten, never go by gravids spots, its very misleading, when it comes to guppys and endlers u do tend to find they always have dark gravid spots.

Like old man said, plenty of cover (heavily plant tank) and u will soon see lots of fry about

Oh, this reminds me. I have two males with gravid spots. One is an endler and the other is just a little male I picked up as a baby and before I knew the gender. The latter one's spot comes and goes.

That is weird.



My livebearers have been dieing and I don't know why. I did a water change. I changed the filter. I'm getting my water tested to see what's up.

I just lost my yellow snakeskin guppy today . My sunset platy is dead. My two variegated snakeskins are dead. <-- They were from the last drop of fry I had. I only have one left.

Sorry to hear you're losing fish,when you say you changed the filter,what do you mean?
If you have totally replaced the original media,you have basically thrown away the bacteria that was keeping the fish alive,

I changed the filter cartridge. All my water parameters are fine.

 

[OldMan47]

If you removed and tossed the filter cartridge Bettacrazy, you have set yourself back quite a bit. A mature filter is your best friend when it comes to fish care. Be sure to keep a close eye on your ammonia levels since they are likely to spike on you after tossing your biological filter. That in itself can be the cause of heavy fish losses. It runs contrary to what you might expect, and certainly runs contrary to what filter manufacturers will tell you, but you should only change a cartridge when it is literally falling apart on you. Until then you just rinse out the cartridge in used tank water from a water change and put it right back where it came from. It will be an ugly brown or tan, but that means it has the needed bacterial colony growing on it.

 

[BettaCrazy7]

I thought you were supposed to change the filter cartridge every month?

 

[OldMan47]

That is definitely what the manufacturers will tell you. Every time you change a cartridge they make some money. In our real world, we keep all of the biologicals that we can so that the ammonia our fish produce don't poison them. Please read through the article that we have on fish-in cycling, I have a link to it in my signature. You may be at the beginning of a fresh fish-in cycle if you replaced all of your media at once.

 

[BettaCrazy7]

Isn't there also beneficial bacteria in the gravel?

 

[BettaCrazy7]

I forgot to mentioned all 4 of my fish died before I changed the cartridge so I don't believe that is the problem.

 

[OldMan47]

There are traces of bacteria that colonize the gravel but it is not nearly as robust a population as is found in the typical filter. Do you have a way to monitor ammonia? That will be the fastest way to determine what is going on in your tank. Many of us use the API master freshwater test kit, although many other liquid type test kits are made. Test strips are considered to be very inaccurate and are just not used by experienced people here.