Hello,
so I just had to get rid of my favorite female sword tail that had a strange bright red dot on the side of her body. The dot has been there for 2 days. The fish has been acting weird for the last 1 week. First she had fry that I did not see any babies from /that is her 4th fry and I usually get at least 10 babies out of each that were successfully hidden in the plants/ so I am thinking may be she had the fry dead. Another strange thing is that she usually hides in the plants a few days before having the fry but after her belly was gone she kept hiding in the plants for over a week now. She was coming out to eat and was acting normal when feeding. I saw her 2 times swimming still just above the air stone in the bubbles which was very strange for me. And then this red dot showed up. She was a red and white sword tail and i have had her for at least 6 months, may be about 4 inches large... That dot was not there before. It looked like she got hurt but in the same time the way she was acting was like she is sick. I just got done treating my tank with Tetra Lifeguard because a female guppy had a white spot on her scales, the spot is gone so I think the medicine worked. It is supposed to treat a wide variety of diseases and I have not added any fish from a store or snails or plants in the last 3 months, so everything looked strange to me. I have a male molly that has been getting super aggressive since he grew up a little larger- he is aggressive when I feed them trying to bite the rest of the mollies /sometimes they get in fights/ and I was thinking may be he could of hurt her. I did a water change yesterday and added a little salt... The only other thing I found on the internet that kind of looked like it was [background=rgb(250, 250, 250)]Hemorrhagic Septicemia and it was saying that it is an ammonia spike related. I also read that Tetra Liguard could wipe some of the good bacteria in the tank and start the cycling again, my water was a little cloudy yesterday so I did a water change and washed the filter /my filter is a sponge one/. [/background]
[background=rgb(250, 250, 250)]Anyways my question is - has this happen to anyone before and do you guys know what it could of been. We euthanize the fish just because this freaked us out and did not want to have other fish getting sick if that is the case. I will check my water levels tomorrow and post them here.[/background]
[background=rgb(250, 250, 250)]Marry Christmass to all [/background]
so I just had to get rid of my favorite female sword tail that had a strange bright red dot on the side of her body. The dot has been there for 2 days. The fish has been acting weird for the last 1 week. First she had fry that I did not see any babies from /that is her 4th fry and I usually get at least 10 babies out of each that were successfully hidden in the plants/ so I am thinking may be she had the fry dead. Another strange thing is that she usually hides in the plants a few days before having the fry but after her belly was gone she kept hiding in the plants for over a week now. She was coming out to eat and was acting normal when feeding. I saw her 2 times swimming still just above the air stone in the bubbles which was very strange for me. And then this red dot showed up. She was a red and white sword tail and i have had her for at least 6 months, may be about 4 inches large... That dot was not there before. It looked like she got hurt but in the same time the way she was acting was like she is sick. I just got done treating my tank with Tetra Lifeguard because a female guppy had a white spot on her scales, the spot is gone so I think the medicine worked. It is supposed to treat a wide variety of diseases and I have not added any fish from a store or snails or plants in the last 3 months, so everything looked strange to me. I have a male molly that has been getting super aggressive since he grew up a little larger- he is aggressive when I feed them trying to bite the rest of the mollies /sometimes they get in fights/ and I was thinking may be he could of hurt her. I did a water change yesterday and added a little salt... The only other thing I found on the internet that kind of looked like it was [background=rgb(250, 250, 250)]Hemorrhagic Septicemia and it was saying that it is an ammonia spike related. I also read that Tetra Liguard could wipe some of the good bacteria in the tank and start the cycling again, my water was a little cloudy yesterday so I did a water change and washed the filter /my filter is a sponge one/. [/background]
[background=rgb(250, 250, 250)]Anyways my question is - has this happen to anyone before and do you guys know what it could of been. We euthanize the fish just because this freaked us out and did not want to have other fish getting sick if that is the case. I will check my water levels tomorrow and post them here.[/background]
[background=rgb(250, 250, 250)]Marry Christmass to all [/background]
