Decoyjayman
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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Hello all! I've got a young guppy (unsure of age but he's about half the size of our adult guppies) who seems pretty sick. Two days ago he seemed kind of lethargic, and yesterday i found him sitting at the bottom of the tank not doing much. I couldn't see anything externally wrong with him, so i treated the tank with prazipro and put him in a little isolation box with some frogbit to keep him from getting snacked on before he has a chance to recover. He'll occasionally swim to the top of the isolation box, looks like he's looking for food.
I had also seen him flashing against the substrate on occasion, which i've read can mean flukes or other parasites, so that's another reason i went with prazipro.
The tank is 50gal moderately planted with 6 other male guppies, cherry shrimp, 1-2 pom pom crabs, 1 Mexican dwarf crayfish, and various peaceful snails. We do about a 30% water change every 1-2 weeks.
Parameters:
Temp: 77.7
pH: 7.4-7.6
Ammonia: 0ppm
Nitrites: 0ppm
Nitrates: ~10ppm (mostly for the plants)
Water is relatively hard
All parameters are very close to the water he came from. Please let me know if there is anything else i can do for him, or if i'm going the complete wrong direction here.
I had also seen him flashing against the substrate on occasion, which i've read can mean flukes or other parasites, so that's another reason i went with prazipro.
The tank is 50gal moderately planted with 6 other male guppies, cherry shrimp, 1-2 pom pom crabs, 1 Mexican dwarf crayfish, and various peaceful snails. We do about a 30% water change every 1-2 weeks.
Parameters:
Temp: 77.7
pH: 7.4-7.6
Ammonia: 0ppm
Nitrites: 0ppm
Nitrates: ~10ppm (mostly for the plants)
Water is relatively hard
All parameters are very close to the water he came from. Please let me know if there is anything else i can do for him, or if i'm going the complete wrong direction here.
