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By maggie1270, Section Diaries Posted on Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 07:24:49 AM PST

Well, I think I'm about to lose my male guppy now. I think he may have caught dropsy from one of my balloon molly fry.

Of course, my mollies are chubby anyway so it took a while to detect what was going on. After I figured it out I pulled the molly from the tank but still medicated the community tank because I had read that it was contagious. I guess it was too late by then. Geez, I lose my female guppy on Friday, my molly on Sunday and now my male guppy. I can't clean that tank any more than I already am!! This is sooooo depressing 8(

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Here we go again | 6 comments (6 topical, 0 hidden)

WOO HOO! (none / 0) (#6)
by Angelee on Mon Dec 22, 2003 at 10:34:38 PM PST

I love it when it's easily solved.
"The Rocky Mountain Gupster" ANGELEE

AWFUL! (none / 0) (#4)
by Angelee on Thu Dec 18, 2003 at 04:23:01 PM PST

I've had mine get caught trying to squeeze into odd places too. Thankfully, I caught them in time. Depressing. Sometimes no matter what we do, we'll lose them. It may have been another parasite or something that got him and weakened his immune system before the dropsy. I believe we've all had a problem or two from time to time. Sorry to hear about it.
"The Rocky Mountain Gupster" ANGELEE

Well, I found that a filter piece was partially (none / 0) (#5)
by maggie1270 on Thu Dec 18, 2003 at 04:41:40 PM PST

clogged. I'm wondering if maybe that was one of the big causes of my tank going haywire. My fish seem to be happier now, but it could just be my wishful thinking. But all seems to be well now, no more outbreaks (as of yet to be determined).

Yay!!!!!
Maggie
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That is so frustrating. You have done what you can (none / 0) (#1)
by unclescott on Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 04:23:42 PM PST

on the tank changing front. It is hard, but let the tank "mature". Filters and gravel are environmentally more helpful as time goes by - with routine gravel vaccuming and water changes. One year old tanks can be perpetual motion machines if maintained. :)

On the dropsy front: if those animals have only been in your care a couple of weeks, it is possible they were exposed to and already attacked by those things before you got them. Also, sometimes older animals are just more vulnerable to illnesses. That (sadly) even happens to elderly people where they get hurt one way and just all sorts of things go wrong.

This may sound a tad unkind, but balloon mollies, like fancy goldfish, are obviously arranged differently than the "models" designed by nature. There is always the question of whether their organs and immune systems will work as effectively as with the wild fish or - in the case of hobby livebearers which have undergone a lot of breeder selection - those fish a little more like the wild fish's design.

This tank has actually been up and running (none / 0) (#2)
by maggie1270 on Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 07:49:59 PM PST

for about a year now. These balloon mollies have survived when others have not. I had 2 swordtails in with them and I found 1 swordtail fry and all was well for a few months and then all of a sudden all 3 of the swordtails died one by one. They had no signs of any symptoms whatsoever. No noticable attack markings, no fungus, no flashing, nothing. I got my male guppy in June and he's grown quite a lot. I couldn't imagine him being that old at the LFS, but then again, who knows how long he'd been travelling before he got there. I want to kinda steer away from the balloon mollies, as they are very messy fish and I'm doing gravel siphoning twice a month because of them. Oh well.
Maggie
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Well, he's gone (none / 0) (#3)
by maggie1270 on Wed Dec 17, 2003 at 01:49:00 AM PST

My last guppy is gone. Whatever he had took him quick. He only started showing symptoms of something last night and he was only acting sluggish. I don't know how he did this but he managed to squeeze himself into a crevace inside the plastic castle. I have no clue how he got in there because, not to sound gross, I had a hard time getting him out. Poor thing probably committed suicide 8(
Maggie
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