TheChefSLC
Aquarium Advice Regular
During my inspection of my fish today, i noticed a red spot on my female GBR. The spot looks like a scale that could be lifting up. I did not notice this yesterday before I left for work.
Also, before my inspection, i had a dead guppy. At first, i believed this to be due to one of my other guppies stressing him out. I am still pretty sure that is it, but could be wrong.
Background on why i think that; I had 3 male guppies in a 5.5 gallon and 2 of them had their fins start missing after I added 3 neon tetra's to the tank. I never did check the parameters in the tank but they always seem to be "nipped" rather than rotted. This never effected the fantail and his tail still looks great. Also yesterday before work, I did notice that he was being harassed a lot by 2 of my guppies. One was the fantail and the other was one of the year old ones from the 5.5 as well.
As for the GBR, i did not do a long inspection yesterday as I was fairly busy. But i did take the piece of driftwood that they spawn on so that I could retie a plant to it. The driftwood piece is actually 2 pieces that magically fit together and I epoxied together. well in my rinsing and cleaning some "slime" off of part of the wood they came apart. I did not have any stainless screws to permanently fix this so I left it out last night.
Could this be caused by stress? do I need to get my 5.5 running again to isolate and treat her? i still have the filer media running in my 20g to get it seeded well so it should be a fairly quick setup using my 36's water.
out of my other fish in the tank, only 1 guppy is having issues, but this is due to him missing the top half of his tail.
I have some pics on my phone that I will be posting shortly.
Also, before my inspection, i had a dead guppy. At first, i believed this to be due to one of my other guppies stressing him out. I am still pretty sure that is it, but could be wrong.
Background on why i think that; I had 3 male guppies in a 5.5 gallon and 2 of them had their fins start missing after I added 3 neon tetra's to the tank. I never did check the parameters in the tank but they always seem to be "nipped" rather than rotted. This never effected the fantail and his tail still looks great. Also yesterday before work, I did notice that he was being harassed a lot by 2 of my guppies. One was the fantail and the other was one of the year old ones from the 5.5 as well.
As for the GBR, i did not do a long inspection yesterday as I was fairly busy. But i did take the piece of driftwood that they spawn on so that I could retie a plant to it. The driftwood piece is actually 2 pieces that magically fit together and I epoxied together. well in my rinsing and cleaning some "slime" off of part of the wood they came apart. I did not have any stainless screws to permanently fix this so I left it out last night.
Could this be caused by stress? do I need to get my 5.5 running again to isolate and treat her? i still have the filer media running in my 20g to get it seeded well so it should be a fairly quick setup using my 36's water.
out of my other fish in the tank, only 1 guppy is having issues, but this is due to him missing the top half of his tail.
I have some pics on my phone that I will be posting shortly.