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Help! my guppy is dying!

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By cgsmith, Section Ask Guppylog
Posted on Wed Aug 29, 2007 at 12:33:56 PM PST
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I seriously need help because I don't know what is wrong with my guppy....



I have a ten gallon tank with two male guppies, three female guppies, and a spotted molly.  Yesterday I noticed that one of my male guppies was just kinda hanging out at the top of the tank and not really swimming around like normal. After I came home from work today he was practically belly up on the bottom of the tank with his fins completely shredded.  It is kind of hard to explain.  None of the other fish are acting strange or have any signs of diseases.  I don't really think it is fin rot.  Any ideas? Should I be concerned about my other fish?
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Help! my guppy is dying! | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
I am sorry but I had to (none / 0) (#3)
by J-ME on Thu Mar 08, 2007 at 10:11:09 AM PST

vote -1 on this one.  I understand that you are having trouble with the fish and your tank but you need to title it with whats wrong or something close not just help.  

I am going to guess that you have a water problem too but it also be that you guppy is just getting up there in age.  But then again we don't know how old it is.  

In the IM Help, upper right hand side of the screen there is a 20 question page that will help you answer some of your own questions and give us a better idea what to work with.  

Please give us a hand to help give you a hand ok....

thank you

Happy fish keeping :-)



Re: Help! my guppy is dying! (none / 0) (#1)
by Scott Lockwood on Mon Mar 05, 2007 at 05:31:06 PM PST

I voted this +1, section, but:

I seriously need help because I don't know what is wrong with my guppy....

Is almost always going to get a -1. Read the instructions on posting a log entry. Do not ask for help. Just posting a log entry IS asking for help. If it doesn't have to do with the actual question you're asking, then it doesn't belong in a log entry.

"I love to visit PetSmart's Tropical Fish Dept. to see what new diseases are around today." -- inkmaker



I'm sorry that you guppy is dying and probably (none / 0) (#2)
by unclescott on Mon Mar 05, 2007 at 10:01:12 PM PST

dead by now. The shredding was the other fish cannibalizing it. That isn't pleasant, but unfortunately not uncommon. Other fish can also pick up parasites and disease organisms fairly quickly that way.

Just a hunch, distilled in part from the last 2,000 calls for "Help," I would guess that part of the issue in your aquarium is a water quality issue. That is the most common issue in almost ALL of our aquariums, including mine. :)  As superficial as it sounds, partial water changes solve a lot of the problems effecting aquaria, even disease issues by diluting pollutants, removing a certain concentration of disease organisms, getting rid of poisons and enabling the fish's immune systems to work better in cleaner conditions. We should be doing one or two 25% water change a week, more if we have a heavy fish load or if test kits show a dangerously high level of ammonia or nitrites or even nitrates. If a fish dies, if a new fish has not been quarantined (bet on it that it will share something unpleasant) or if we overfeed, those are also reasons for more partial water changes.

Please do a 25% water change with treated (ideally seasoned) water which is about the same temperature as your aquarium. If you had a nearby pathology lab, a lot of money and could get that dying fish over there, they probably could be more specific as to why it died.

This sounds like a lot of work and it is, but you give us very little info to work on. Take a look at http://www.guppylog.com/story/2005/6/24/82111/0134

The first 20 questions will help you describe what your aquarium is like and your maintenance of it. The second 20 questions may help you describe what was going on with that guppy. You may be developing insights into what happened before you ever get back to us. :) If you do answer as many of those questions as seem relevant, we'll give it a shot. We're all amateurs. But the better informed as amateurs we become, the healthier our own fish and the more help we can be to others. :)

Good luck and all the best!

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