Oohitsae
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So, a friend is having something wipe out her entire guppy tank. She's posted on multiple forums and hasn't found an answer, so I figured I'd post for her on here.
Heres the information:
symptoms within 24 hrs of death:
Clamped fins
Ragged fins
Loss of appetite
fuzzy spots on fins and occasionally on body
flesh becomes more opaque/white
swims "stiff"
Develops a green spot near pectoral fin
Seems to only affect the see through guppies
They die within 36 hours of becoming afflicted.
Water Parameters are: 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 0 nitrate, 0 gh, 300kh, 8.4 pH
(This is a well established and cycled tank)
It all started when she had one that had an abcess/cyst looking thing on it's peduncle. It burst and she ended up euthanizing it after because the hole started eating away its tail and it started to look like it had a saddleback infection. Originally she thought it was columnaris because of the saddleback, euthanized the affected fish and started treating with tetracycline. During treatment she still had deaths.
She stopped treating with the t. cycline because she heard that it was pretty much useless in a pH as high as hers and then started using nitrofurazone.
Nitrofurazone was one day, then 4 of t.cycline, then one of tea tree 1 drop/gal
She's down to 3 from the original set. They
survivors are currently QT'd in AQ salt with prazi-pro... so far, no issues.
She's bleaching the tank and boiling/tossing out all the decor since she doesn't know what else to do.
But, basically we'd like to know what this is, right now it looks like nobody is ill, but she'd also like to know what to treat with so that she doesn't lose anymore. That tank was full of her prized guppies.
Looks like the pictures are out of order, 1. dead, 2. healthy, 3. sick
edit::
only one of the survivors is from the guppies I got in. The other 2 are from the other tank, so our personal stock.
the cloudy flesh only shows on the see thrus, it took out both swallow tail medusas also, the male had no extrernal damage at all.
Heres the information:
symptoms within 24 hrs of death:
Clamped fins
Ragged fins
Loss of appetite
fuzzy spots on fins and occasionally on body
flesh becomes more opaque/white
swims "stiff"
Develops a green spot near pectoral fin
Seems to only affect the see through guppies
They die within 36 hours of becoming afflicted.
Water Parameters are: 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 0 nitrate, 0 gh, 300kh, 8.4 pH
(This is a well established and cycled tank)
It all started when she had one that had an abcess/cyst looking thing on it's peduncle. It burst and she ended up euthanizing it after because the hole started eating away its tail and it started to look like it had a saddleback infection. Originally she thought it was columnaris because of the saddleback, euthanized the affected fish and started treating with tetracycline. During treatment she still had deaths.
She stopped treating with the t. cycline because she heard that it was pretty much useless in a pH as high as hers and then started using nitrofurazone.
Nitrofurazone was one day, then 4 of t.cycline, then one of tea tree 1 drop/gal
She's down to 3 from the original set. They
survivors are currently QT'd in AQ salt with prazi-pro... so far, no issues.
She's bleaching the tank and boiling/tossing out all the decor since she doesn't know what else to do.
But, basically we'd like to know what this is, right now it looks like nobody is ill, but she'd also like to know what to treat with so that she doesn't lose anymore. That tank was full of her prized guppies.
Looks like the pictures are out of order, 1. dead, 2. healthy, 3. sick
edit::
only one of the survivors is from the guppies I got in. The other 2 are from the other tank, so our personal stock.
the cloudy flesh only shows on the see thrus, it took out both swallow tail medusas also, the male had no extrernal damage at all.
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