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My Guppy Just Died For No Reason!!! | 13 comments (13 topical, 0 hidden)

Re: (none / 0) (#3)
by livebearer fan on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 12:18:04 AM PST

hi, it may be that you just didnt cycle your tank for long enough, or may be your temp is to low i keep my guppies i keep mine at 27 degrease c. or the journy form the tank in the pet shop to your tank was just to stressful for the little guy
yellowmolly
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Re:Sorry for not writing back! (none / 0) (#9)
by Syhrus on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 11:32:41 PM PST

Sorry for not writing back guys!

I've been trying to get some more ammonia/nitrate/nitrite testing gear.

So far the shop's been out of stock and my friend in the city isn't a sharing person.

I don't have any readings, sorry.

I have been checking the female over the last week, her tail is starting to roll up and she is realy struggling to swim.
"You shall all taste oblivion, which tastes like Red Bull, which is disgusting." -O'Malley
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Are you treating water, maybe letting it sit a bit (none / 0) (#11)
by unclescott on Sat Oct 21, 2006 at 03:13:54 AM PST

and doing more partial and progressively larger water changes?

Sorry about the hassle on the test kits. But you don't need a test kit to know that if you don't do the partial water changes, the female will probably die.

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Re: Good Prediction (none / 0) (#12)
by Syhrus on Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 12:25:06 AM PST

Well done Uncle Scott She died a few days ago.

Under my Godfather's advise I put in some funguside and will leave the tank for a month or so.
"You shall all taste oblivion, which tastes like Red Bull, which is disgusting." -O'Malley
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Fungus is one of nature's ways for cleaning up (none / 0) (#13)
by unclescott on Wed Nov 01, 2006 at 10:45:00 AM PST

dead organic materials such as uneaten food, dead fish and the like. Pick up the pace of the partial water changes and you probably remove the stuff the fungus would live on.

Quarantining new fish and treating them with a antiparasite application (designed to zap a number of internal and external parasites) and then rigorously doing water changes on a modestly populated aquarium will eliminate as many as 99% of the possible disease outbreaks.

Most fish that die before their time died because of (1) diseases brought in from a shop, (2) from suddenly dumping them in their new home (w/o proper acclimation and then we blame the shop), (3) uncycled aquariums and spikes of ammonia, nitrite or nitrates which we didn't properly respond to, (4) from overfeeding and the resulting pollution or (5) from not making enough partial water changes. 6 could be from putting incompatible fish together. The specific illnesses which result may be a mystery to us, the general causes are pretty well known. :)

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My Guppy Just Died For No Reason!!! | 13 comments (13 topical, 0 hidden)

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