Thanks for the link Wilder, but I guess I was to slow, my guppy was dead this morning. I don't understand it though. I saw him swimming around just fine the other day and the next day he was swimming all weird and the next day dead.
I have a question though. Out of the 4 tanks in my house I always have trouble with this one. It is a 20 gallon hex with a few cories, 3 baby angels (temp house for them until they get bigger), about 5 or 6 guppies, 2 snails, a rubberlip pleco, and 2 dwarf platties. I purchased a guppy about 2 months ago that had white lips, didn't know if it was supposed to be that way or if it had a fungus. So I treated with fungus clear by Jungle and I thought the guppy was better, but found him dead a week or so later. Then about 3 weeks ago my little angel wouldn't eat. No visible signs of anything on his body or fins. Treated with parasite clear and higher temp. and he seems fine now. Then the guppy with what I thought was a swim bladder problem. Now he is dead too. The tank has been up about 6 or 8 months and I have almost all of the original fish in it. They all seem healthy and happy. I check my parameters on my tank once a week and I have 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, and my ph is about 7.4. Also the temp stays at 78 except when I raised it to treat the angel that wasn't eating. I do have a problem (or maybe not, depends on how you look at it) with nitrates. I use the API Master test kit, it is only about 8 months old, but very seldom do I get a nitrate reading. I have tested my nitrates out of the faucet and they are 0, just like the reading I usually get from the tank water.
Could that first guppy with the white lips have brought a disease into my tank like columnaris? Would that attack one fish at a time? I just don't understand why it is one here and one there. All my other tanks are just fine, I never lose a fish in them, just this one that gives me problems like once a month or so. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Barb
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