guppy deadD:

[plecopsycho]

I bought 3 guppys yesterday and today i woke up this morning and my male guppys tail is missing plus its dead....what happebed?

 

[Thranta]

What size tank do you have? What's your water profile?

Are there any other inhabitants in the tank? Are the other guppies male/female?

Keep in mind that guppies are often just have bad genetics and just drop dead.

 

[plecopsycho]

Ok i have a 55 gallon with 8 baby mollies and 2 adults,2 guppys(both female), 1baby bristlenose pleco,1common pleco,3ghost shrimp,2 albino Buenos aires tetra,4 blue ram cicblids,1 albino rainbow shark,15white cloud minnows,1mystery snail,and 1 black khuili loach and i do a 25%water change a week. The weird thing about the guppy that died was it hid itself in a corner and tried to stay away from them

 

[Thranta]

Then it probably felt threatened. Best guess, something took offense to the male guppy-- cichlid or rainbow shark?

 

[plecopsycho]

Or my albino buenos aires tetra there kinda mean

 

[plecopsycho]

Ok now my white cloud minnows are dieing from being torn up

 

[Thranta]

Something has obviously taken offense.

 

[plecopsycho]

But i dont see anything attacking them during the day

 

[Thranta]

Do you have any way to isolate and narrow down the suspects? Worried that you might lose a bunch of fish.

 

[plecopsycho]

Ive seen my blue rams chase away fish from a certain spot. Also i have seen my rainbow shark chase my albino buenos aires tetras but he only has chased them also my molly bother eachother sometimes

 

[Thranta]

Good luck figuring it out.

 

[mzzguillory]

First off u have guppys with cichlids and sharks...theres the problem.

 

[plecopsycho]

But i thought blue rams were pretty peacrful

 

[mzzguillory]

They are but the guppys may have threatened them. They are peaceful yes but they are under the aggressive category....its like having a pet monkey. It cannattack amd feel threatened at any moment. Also a guppy is a feeder fish...it may have looked like food to them.

 

[mzzguillory]

What kind of pleco you have? They can attack to....they look for algae...even on fish...

 

[plecopsycho]

I have a baby albino brissle nose pleco and a common pleco and i figured they would ignore them because of the white cloud minnows