i have a 33l tank and so far i did regular waterchanges - meaning once a week about 1/3rd of the water. i started off with two julii catfish- they are miraculously still alive and well - 8 neon tetras and three guppies. a few neons died of what i think was the "new tank disease".
in the past few months i lost two guppies to dropsy - treatment with antibiotics did not help - one guppie after succesfully treating for whitespots probably to swimbladder disease and two female guppies to what they said in the fish-shop was hernia?!
my last guppie that died showed symptoms of swimbladder problems: not able to lift herself off the ground and in the end lying on her side. i removed her from the others and put her into a seperate tank.
the funny thing was that a few hours befoe she died two threadlike red "things showed out of her anus about 2 mm long. when i came down the next morning she was dead and those things were still there. i decided not to dispose off her just yet but left it til the evening. the two red thin things had by then made their way out of her body.
i am just happy that the guppy did not die in the main tank! because of all the losses i had decided to set everything up from scratch and when i moved the fish back to the "new" tank i noticed that something was wrong with her.
description: about 6 to 7 mm long, a small ball-like head on one end and pointy on the other end. they are red, and app. 2/10 of a mm wide in their midsection.
any idea what they are ore where they came from?
thanks!!!
in the past few months i lost two guppies to dropsy - treatment with antibiotics did not help - one guppie after succesfully treating for whitespots probably to swimbladder disease and two female guppies to what they said in the fish-shop was hernia?!
my last guppie that died showed symptoms of swimbladder problems: not able to lift herself off the ground and in the end lying on her side. i removed her from the others and put her into a seperate tank.
the funny thing was that a few hours befoe she died two threadlike red "things showed out of her anus about 2 mm long. when i came down the next morning she was dead and those things were still there. i decided not to dispose off her just yet but left it til the evening. the two red thin things had by then made their way out of her body.
i am just happy that the guppy did not die in the main tank! because of all the losses i had decided to set everything up from scratch and when i moved the fish back to the "new" tank i noticed that something was wrong with her.
description: about 6 to 7 mm long, a small ball-like head on one end and pointy on the other end. they are red, and app. 2/10 of a mm wide in their midsection.
any idea what they are ore where they came from?
thanks!!!
