Recent content by phloxy

In the past 2 months my female guppy's back/tail has become bent down, and slightly to the side. It never seemed to bother her so I assumed it was because one of my plants became overgrown and she doesn't like swimming through it so it made her spine hunched (almost like someone with bad...

Bad news- the last sick guppy just died. He seemed to really perk up the last few hours, and was swimming about so I thought there was hope that I got to him in time. Left to take a shower for maybe 20 minutes, came back and he was belly-up floating near where I last saw him. :nono:

The last sick female just died, but I was able to get the ich treatment. Couldn't find any epsom salts that weren't scented with something but my friend offered to take me to another store tomorrow, but I tried with mushed up peas and neither of the sick fish would take it. I feel so bad, not...

Okay cool. Couldn't find any ich treatment with the ingredients you mentioned, so will go searching at a different store tomorrow. Got the aquarium salt though and added that to start. Can get the rest of the needed stuff in the morning, hopefully before class. Another one of my females died...

Okay, thank you so much! I woke up today to find the one hanging out at the bottom had died. Her anus was very red and distended, I took a couple of photos in case actually seeing it would help.

Awesome thanks for the suggestion! Tomorrow I'll run and et some treatment. Do you think a general one would be okay, in case it isn't ich? Also, I've been looking things up and a few sites suggested adding salt and doing a salt treatment for 10 days. Is this something that could help, or is it...

Scratch that, apparently I remembered wrong and it's nitrates that were slightly high, and were at 20. I unplugged my heater and have been keeping an eye on the temperature, hopefully that helps. And other than the clamped fins, pale body colour, and shimmying at the top of the water (and...

Thank you for the reply! I just checked my water parametres and everything is fine except nitrites are up a tiny bit. Came back from school today and the palest fish was dead. :( The other adolescents are still showing symptoms though... Edit: Could these signs be from being too warm? Just...

Just did a water test strip, and it read 40-80 nitrate, 1 nitrite, 7.0 pH, 120 carbonate hardness, and 120-180 general hardness. So a bit on the high side but not horribly high according to the test strip chart. Edit: So I noticed that one of the females is swimming around a bit more than...

I just moved, so decided to take the chance to add more gravel and do a bit of an update on the landscaping, as well as doing about a 50% water change since it got pretty dirty (my fried offered to care for them for a few weeks when I went home and did a terrible job). My water filter also...