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By fishfan19, Section Diaries
Posted on Thu Aug 30, 2007 at 07:09:15 AM PST
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  Everything was going fine up until just last week when I noticed one of my little platies at the bottom of the tank gasping. I immediately looked at the water temp and noticed that it was at 79 degrees so I checked the bubbler to make sure that there was proper air flow and, of course, there was. Next I checked the fish for any other signs of disease, etc. and noticed that part of his back tail fin was missing.    



    Unfortunately only a few minutes later he was dead. I carefully checked all of the others so I could isolate them if they were sick but non showed any sign problems. I added some disease preventive and turned up the temp a couple degrees just in case and didn't think much about it until the next day when anthoer baby was dead and one looked sick. I isolated the sick one but it died soon after. Three more babies are showing signs of illness this morning. What am I doing wrong?????
       Also, my male guppy died last week and I have no idea why. Non of they other fish in his tank are sick and all are acting 100% normal. I think it may have been old age.
     And yet another problem, I have never bred fish before until recently and just happened to read guppygirls entry about culling right before noticing one of my four surving guppies has a curved spine. He is doing perfectly fine, eating well and everything so it's going to be very, very hard to "cull" him. What would happen to him if he were aloud to grow up? I know it would be bad but why? Mabey your answers will help me to make the right decision.
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spines (none / 0) (#1)
by Phry on Sat Oct 11, 2003 at 09:28:25 PM PST

...Guess it depends on how bad his spine is. Effects include almost certain stunted/halted growth and locomotion problems, increased difficulty with feeding, possible internal problems, and building discomfort as the body grows more twisted. I believe such guppies rarely survive their first few months. How old is it now? How does the spine look? Basically, the older he gets the more and more his spine will affect him.



Hey fishfan19, Sorry to hear (none / 0) (#2)
by guppygirl on Sun Oct 12, 2003 at 12:17:05 PM PST

about your troubles.  How high is the temp. in your tank now? I only have one reference for Platy's, "Guppies, Mollies, Platy's and other live-bearers" by Harro Hieronimus.

In his section on Platy's he states that the Sunset or Varigated Platy should be kept between 68-75 degrees. Other Platy's at 75-79degrees.

Do you think they have ich, or bacterial fin rot?
Could the first one have been a victim of foul play? Do you have a fin nipper in the tank?
If you suspect fin rot, I'd suggest getting medication for that, not just a preventative at this point.

Follow the directions on the meds., see if it says anything about increased temp helping. I know it helps with ich, but I'm not sure if it helps with fin rot.

As far as your guppy that died, they have a life expectancy of only about a year. I know that's short, so it could have been old age.

For the gup that has the bent spine, I really struggled with my decision, you could probably tell.  But I felt that it would be more cruel to allow them to continue to suffer, then to put them out of their misery quickly.

Also, if I kept them, I could never allow them to breed, (life without hanky-panky? ;-) AHHHHH!! CRUEL! ) so where would I keep them?  And since I had three what if they were males and females?

I could just see myself trying to explain to someone, "Oh, those two tanks in the corner? Nevermind those, they're just my bent, twisted, mutant guppies."

Anyway, I hope this helps, I'm really not trying to make light of it. I know it took me some time to get my heart and my guts to do it.

But it WAS VERY QUICK!!! They were gone before the water reached the top of the measuring cup.

Best of luck.
Take care,
guppygirl


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It took me awhile to decide but (none / 0) (#3)
by fishfan19 on Wed Oct 29, 2003 at 09:03:15 PM PST

it's done now, There were two platys as well. I cried but I know it was for the best. Thanks for all of your support guys. I guess your right about it being a part of breeding fish and even though I'll never get used to it I can learn to deal. Thanks again.

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I'm sorry :-( (none / 0) (#4)
by guppygirl on Thu Oct 30, 2003 at 03:57:32 AM PST

I think you did the right thing, fishfan.
You really are, you know, even though sometimes it
can be difficult.

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