LauraFrog
Fish Gatherer
1. Water parameters. (ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, PH, temp', Hardness etc)
2. A full description of the fishes symptoms.
3. How often you do water changes and how much.
4. Any chemicals and treatments you add to the water.
5. What tank mates are in the tank.
6. Tank size.
7. Finally Have you recently added any new fish?
I'll use the little form anyway:
1. Water parameters - not sure on ammonia, nitrite and nitrate (can't get test kits where I live) but the tank has been set up for over six weeks, no deaths, no distressed fish, and using filter media from an established, cycling tank. So I'll say it's cycling. PH stable at 7.2
2. see below
3. Did a water change, about 1/3 of tank, earlier today, nothing different about water, other fish all fine.
4. Plant food, four drops per day as per directions on bottle.
5. Bristlenose catfish, 2 other platies, 2 mollies.
6. 20 litres I think.
7. No new fish recently. All fish in there were bought at the same time, about five weeks ago, except for the bristlenose which I've had for a good six months.
So. The platy has dark flanks so no eye spot, but she's been obviously pregnant and theres a male in the tank. She is almost square from behind, gotten bossier (normally a timid fish) and obviously almost ready to drop. I have seventeen baby platies from another mother in a seperate tank, a month old yesterday, and I was cleaning their tank with the same siphon line, so I thought I might have had a baby get stuck in the line, but I counted them, still seventeen in the baby tank and an extra, slightly smaller, has appeared in the main tank. So I removed it and set up another tiny tank for the mother, I don't have a breeder or anything so she's in a plastic container. I hope it's only for a few hours she has some gravel and a live plant in there. There's been a lot of conflicting advice on whether or not the mother should be moved, but the mollies are agressive and eat anything and everything so I took her out because I thought they'd eat the babies. That was about half an hour ago. She sat on the bottom of the new container for about ten minutes, but I'm relieved to see that she's moved around a bit now.
But she was sitting for a long time with her tail tucked to the side and her swollen belly resting on the gravel and I'm worried that she's having trouble. I'm pretty sure I've got the right fish, because I have a very pregnant molly in the tank as well, but she's behaving normally and the platy's not.
I just want to know that everything's normal. She's my favourite fish and i can't stand to lose her!
2. A full description of the fishes symptoms.
3. How often you do water changes and how much.
4. Any chemicals and treatments you add to the water.
5. What tank mates are in the tank.
6. Tank size.
7. Finally Have you recently added any new fish?
I'll use the little form anyway:
1. Water parameters - not sure on ammonia, nitrite and nitrate (can't get test kits where I live) but the tank has been set up for over six weeks, no deaths, no distressed fish, and using filter media from an established, cycling tank. So I'll say it's cycling. PH stable at 7.2
2. see below
3. Did a water change, about 1/3 of tank, earlier today, nothing different about water, other fish all fine.
4. Plant food, four drops per day as per directions on bottle.
5. Bristlenose catfish, 2 other platies, 2 mollies.
6. 20 litres I think.
7. No new fish recently. All fish in there were bought at the same time, about five weeks ago, except for the bristlenose which I've had for a good six months.
So. The platy has dark flanks so no eye spot, but she's been obviously pregnant and theres a male in the tank. She is almost square from behind, gotten bossier (normally a timid fish) and obviously almost ready to drop. I have seventeen baby platies from another mother in a seperate tank, a month old yesterday, and I was cleaning their tank with the same siphon line, so I thought I might have had a baby get stuck in the line, but I counted them, still seventeen in the baby tank and an extra, slightly smaller, has appeared in the main tank. So I removed it and set up another tiny tank for the mother, I don't have a breeder or anything so she's in a plastic container. I hope it's only for a few hours she has some gravel and a live plant in there. There's been a lot of conflicting advice on whether or not the mother should be moved, but the mollies are agressive and eat anything and everything so I took her out because I thought they'd eat the babies. That was about half an hour ago. She sat on the bottom of the new container for about ten minutes, but I'm relieved to see that she's moved around a bit now.
But she was sitting for a long time with her tail tucked to the side and her swollen belly resting on the gravel and I'm worried that she's having trouble. I'm pretty sure I've got the right fish, because I have a very pregnant molly in the tank as well, but she's behaving normally and the platy's not.
I just want to know that everything's normal. She's my favourite fish and i can't stand to lose her!
